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Flagler County Commission

Calling It an Unsafe “Albatross,” Sheriff Demands Immediate Relocation Out of Sick Building For Dozens of Employees

May 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

The county bought the old Memorial Hospital for $1.23 million in 2013, rebuilt it for more than $5 million, and has been contending with sick-building-syndrome-like issues there since last year. (© FlaglerLive)

Unequivocally referring to the Operations Center as a sick building, Sheriff Rick Staly made the demand for alternate space to County Administrator Craig Coffey, who pushed to buy the old hospital in 2013 and convert it.

County Defends $284,000 Tourism Website Deal and Commissioners Are Mollified

May 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

County Administrator Craig Coffey has been on the defensive over the manner in which a proposed website contract was submitted to the county commission, and its costs. (© FlaglerLive)

County Administrator Craig Coffey and tourism officials put commissioners’ questions about the expense of a website to rest with 75 minutes of details and only a few straw men.

Flagler Government Spent $1 Million on 3 Websites Since 2010, Wants $300,000 More In Next 4 Years

May 25, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

What it looked like in 2012: the visitflagler.org website, before one of its reincarnations. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government wants to spend $284,000 on a tourism website over the next four years. It has already spent $1 million on three websites in the past nine.

To Protect Public Use of Private Beachfronts, Flagler Calls on Memories of
Long-Timers’ Customs

May 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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To ward off a new state law potentially allowing private property owners to fence off beach sands, the Flagler County Commission is enacting an ordinance to preserve public use and forbid fencing.

Flagler Fire Services Get Boost and 8th Ambulance With Heritage-Preserving Transfer of Bunnell Fire Station

May 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Flagler County Fire Chief Don Petito, center, with county commissioners, Bunnell citry commissioners and others marking the ceremonial transfer of Bunnell's fire station to the county, in the shadow of a new, eighth rescue unit that will be operating out of the station, to the benefit of the entire county. (© FlaglerLive)

Bunnell’s Fire Department no longer exists, but a Bunnell fire station lives on, improved, under county auspices, with better response times and expanded countywide services.

Flagler Government Wants $284,000 Contract For Tourism Website Revamp

May 21, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Matt Dunn, left, the director of Flagler's tourism department, with County Administrator Craig Coffey. (© FlaglerLive)

The proposal never went before the Tourist Development Council. The county administrator says the $284,000 cost will actually be less than the existing contract.

In Latest Victory For Dog Owners, Court Rejects Flagler’s Appeal on ‘Dangerous’ Ruling

May 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A recent photo of Bacchus, the 5-year-old labrador at the center of a wrangle between the county commission and its owners. (Dawn Sweatt)

The labrador that bit an 8-year-old Flagler County boy in the face three years ago will not have to be termed dangerous, and the long legal case appears closed.

Adding To Troubled Run, Flagler Commission Candidate Joe Mullins Blurs Business And Electioneering

May 10, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Joe Mullins, a candidate for the County Commission seat held by Nate McLaughlin, is blurring the line between campaigning and private business in a series of local involvements, a FlaglerLive investigation found.

Accusing Palm Coast of Making ‘Blatantly False’ Claims, County Talks Mediation and Litigation Over SR100 Development

May 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The Airport Commons property stretches along State Road 100 near the airport, across the street from where Palm Coast is working with developers to bring a Wawa. (© FlaglerLive)

A proposed commercial development on State Road 100 by the airport has county and Palm Coast government relations at their lowest ebb in years.

Disaster-Response Company Gets $40,000 County Subsidy and Moves to Flagler Airport

May 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Kimble Aviation Logistical Inc. will move a segment of its operation into the hangar that used to house Flagler County Fire Flight, at the county airport. Fire Flight moved to a different hangar. (© FlaglerLive)

Kimble’s Aviation Logistical Services pledged to create 40 jobs over the next seven years, basing its disaster-recovery operation at the Flagler County Airport.

Sheriff’s Palm Coast Precinct Moving Near Island Walk for $1 Million, Ending Nomadic Years

May 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The Flagler Sheriff’s Palm Coast Precinct will move from City Marketplace to Palm Harbor Way, in the old Wachovia bank building that will be county property.

Roundabout Construction at US1 and Old Dixie Will Start In a Few Months Despite Opposition

April 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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Construction of the much-opposed roundabout at U.S. 1 and Old Dixie Highway in Flagler is expected to start after August absent intervention by the governor or lawmakers.

Sticking With Motorola, Flagler Rejects Bid Protest Over $14.8 Million Contract For Emergency Communications

April 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The Flagler County Commission in a special meeting today rejected Communications International’s protest over a bid that went to Motorola to build critical emergency communications infrastructure.

Tax-Evaders Beware: Flagler Will Take Over Local Collection From Short-Term Renters, Projecting Jump in Revenue

April 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Property Appraiser Jay Garner will provide the data showing what properties are not homesteaded--and therefore are more prone to paying the tourist tax--and Tax Collector Suzanne Johnston will collect, starting July 1. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Tax Collector, not the state Department of Revenue, will be collecting the 5 percent tax on short term rentals starting in July–a tax hundreds of property owners are evading currently.

Flagler Moves to Protect Public’s Use Of Beaches Ahead of Law Granting Property Owners Restrictive Rights

April 16, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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The new law allows beachfront private property owners to trespass the public from private beaches, something not allowed currently, and never done in Flagler.

7 New Sheriff’s Deputies, 143% Cost Increase as Outline of Flagler’s School Safety Takes Shape

April 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

For Flagler schools, safety is a whole new mandate. Superintendent Jim Tager, left, has been negotiating a new contract for school resource deputies with Sheriff Rick Staly. School Board members Trevor Tucker (the board chairman), center, and Andy Dance are to Tager's left. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff Staly and Superintendent Tager are negotiating an increase of the school deputies’ program to $1.8 million split 50-50, with the schools’ share paid by the state and the sheriff’s by the County Commission.

Water War Flares Again Between Palm Coast and County Over Planned Shops Near Airport

April 10, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The proposed development at the center of the latest dispute over water between county and Palm Coast government is at the southeast corner of State Road 100 and the entrance to the county airport, opposite Bulldog Drive.

A proposed commercial development at the southeast corner of State Road 100 and the entrance to the county airport, opposite Bulldog Drive, is at the center of the latest water dispute between Palm Coast and the county.

Flagler Approves $14.8 Million Next-Gen Emergency Communication System, But Faces Bid Protest

April 9, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Motorola won the $14.8 million contract to upgrade the emergency communications system every local first responder and other workers depend on, but Flagler faces a protest from CI, the other bidder and provider of the existing system.

Jury Finds Ex-Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks Guilty On All 7 Felony Counts of Illegally Recording Others

April 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A jury found Kimberle Weeks guilty on felony counts today, ending a four-day trial in a three-year case. But the defense will appeal. (c FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler County Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks was found guilty on felony counts that she illegally recorded other officials during her tenure.

Kimberle Weeks Trial Day 3: Defense Opts Against Putting On a Case, Relying on Outlier Theory Instead

April 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kimberle Weeks's lawyers have been as if channeling her outlier predilections into their legal arguments to the jury. Closing arguments are Thursday. (c FlaglerLive)

In an echo of Kimberle Weeks’s own irreverence toward established law, her lawyers are arguing an untested and unusual interpretation of what amounts to a public meeting: all conversations between public officials involving public business.

Flagler Government Approves Open-Ended Renewals of County Administrator’s and Attorney’s Contracts

April 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

County Administrator Craig Coffey, left, and County Attorney Al Hadeed. (c FlaglerLive)

County Administrator Craig Coffey and County Attorney Al Hadeed have been the commission’s hires since 2007. Their contracts no longer will have an end date.

Trial Day 2: Jury Hears Kim Weeks Insult Secretary of State and Others As Ken Detzner Sat in Witness Box

April 3, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

As Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, in office since 2012, sat in the witness box today, a Flagler County jury heard a recording of ex-Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks call Detzner and one of his his attorneys names. Detzner listened in stunned silence. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner was a star witness for the prosecution today, saying Kim Weeks recorded him without his permission. he then heard her call him a “dumb bastard.”

New Law Gives Property Owners Right to Restrict Beach Access. Flagler Working On Protecting Public’s “Customary Use”

March 29, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

A new Florida law could potentially allow private property owners with beachfront property to put up No Trespassing signs on dry-sand areas of the beach, above the mean high-tide waterline, countering decades of customary use of the beaches--and prohibitions of such signs in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The new and unusual Florida law allows beachfront property owners the right to wall off or restrict dry-sand areas from public use, but Flagler government intends to protect that “customary use” despite the law.

Tiny RV Park Proposed for Colbert Lane Revs Up Residents’ Rebellion, and Is Denied

March 19, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Upscale or not, Palm Coast Plantation and Grand Haven residents saw a proposed RV park on Colbert Lane as a trailer park compatible with its surroundings. County commissioners mostly agreed.

Upscale or not, Palm Coast Plantation and Grand Haven residents saw a proposed RV park on Colbert Lane as a trailer park, and the county commission rejected it Monday evening.

Another Exhausting But Short-Term Victory For Flagler Government as Vacation-Rental Deregulation Fails Again

March 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Rep. Joseph Abruzzo's accusation that a vacation-rental bill's proper hearing was falling prey to 'political stunts and maneuverings' may have helped lead to the bill's demise this year, as was the case last year at the Florida Legislature. But the bill will return almost certainly next year in one form or another.

Flagler County government had staunchly opposed lawmakers’ attempts to eliminate local regulation of short-term vacation rentals, regulations crafted in 2014 largely at Flagler’s behest.

Hammock Beach “Dragging Their Feet” Over Dunes-Repair Agreement, Vexing County

March 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Repairing the dunes along the Hammock Beach golf course is a critical part of the county's broader dunes-reconstruction project, but it's also the only part of the project yet to be cleared for construction.

The agreement with Hammock Beach is the last piece of a mosaic of agreements framing the reconstruction of protective dunes along the beach. But hammock Beach has yet to sign.

Gently But Firmly, Flagler Beach Tells County It Wants Control Over Wickline Center Back

February 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The county has long controlled the Wickline Center at 800 South Daytona Avenue in Flagler Beach. Now the city wants that control back as part of an effort to turn the complex where the Wickline center sits, along with two other city-owned building, into more of a city campus. (© FlaglerLive)

The Wickline Center on Daytona Avenue is city-owned, but entirely controlled by the county, a situation the city wants changed in view of a revamp of that entire city-owned block, including the Montessori school.

Mold Found In 2 Rooms at Sheriff’s Operations Center After 4 Employees Complain of Rashes

February 20, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Room 129 above, at the Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell, is one of the two rooms temporarily condemned as enviornmental clean-up was carried out following reports by employees of rashes. (H2H)

The four employees were relocated and the concern prompted an environmental investigation of the old but renovated building and the closure of two rooms pending extensive clean-ups.

Flagler Sheriff and County Officials Worry That Prison Reforms Could Shift Inmates,
and Costs, to County

February 19, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly, right, described the likely financial impact of a shift in inmates from the state back to the counties, during a meeting of the Public Safety Coordinating Council last week. Steve Cole, who oversees the local jail, is to his right, with County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens in the foreground. (© FlaglerLive)

A spate of criminal-justice reform bills in the Florida Senate has Flagler’s sheriff and a county commissioner worried about what that could mean for the local jail population and budgets.

Flagler Airport Chief Roy Sieger Calls Fuel Tax Cut Proposed By Renner Committee “Ridiculous,” and Loses

February 15, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler Executive Airport Roy Sieger in his appearance before Paul Renner's Ways and Means Committee Wednesday in Tallahassee.

Airport Director Sieger spoke before Paul Renner’s Ways and Means Committee, but Renner, the Palm Coast Republican, voted with the committee to approve the tax cut.

Flagler Loses Hutson and Lopsided Vote as Vacation Rental Deregulation Advances

February 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Flagler County Commission Chairman Greg Hansen made the county's case before the Senate Regulated Industries Committee this afternoon. It did not work.

Sen. Travis Hutson voted with the 9-1 majority of his Senate committee today to advance a bill that would strip local governments of regulatory authority of vacation-rental homes.

County Agrees To Settling Dangerous Dog Case With Broader Implications on Authority

February 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

County Attorney Al Hadeed has been one of the few constants in a nearly-three-year-old battle over dog the county declared dangerous, a designation its owners have been fighting since. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed argues Circuit Judge Scott DuPont misconstrued and misapplied the law in a dangerous-dog decision the county is appealing to the Fifth District Court of Appeal.

County Eliminates 15 Jobs, Outsourcing Janitorial Contract Commissioners Had Saved in 2015

February 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Three years ago then-Flagler Commissioner Barbara Revels saved the jobs, arguing they were more important than outsourcing’s modest savings. This time, the commission voted 5-0 to outsource.

Chief Judge Has Discouraging News For Flagler’s Hope of Landing 2nd County Judge

February 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Raul Zambrano, who sat on Flagler's felony court previously, is the Chief Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler, Volusia, St. Johns and Putnam counties, or about 1 million residents. (© FlaglerLive)

Despite certifying Flagler for an additional county court judge in 2016 and recognizing a still-increasing workload last year the Supreme Court has ruled against certifying an additional judge this year.

Four Local Governments Vying For Residents To Enroll In Their “Academies”

February 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Participants at the Sheriff's Citizens Academy can get a more direct sense of what it's like to be a cop, at least in some regards. (FCSO)

Local governments’ citizenship academies have been relatively popular, especially among potential political candidates or people who want to see the plumbing of government firsthand.

County Approves Special Tax and Contract To Build Seawall for Painters Hill Homes

January 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Two of the Painters Hill properties whose foundations were eroded by Hurricane Matthew. (© FlaglerLive)

Each of the affected property owners is looking at an additional tax bill of roughly $100,000 spread over the next 15 years to pay for the seawall.

1st Round in New Session’s Vacation Rental Saga Goes Against Flagler Government

January 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

A proposal by Sen. David Simmons, a Longwood Republican, was outflanked by Sen. Greg Steube's proposal in a committee vote today. (Florida Channel)

A Senate committee approved a bill that would nearly eliminate local government regulation of vacation rentals and enable a single licensee to have hundreds of rentals across the state.

Raising Faith Over Futility, Flagler Launches Unprecedented $25 Million Dunes-Restoration Feat

January 27, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

County officials gathered for a groundbreaking on a $25 million dunes-restoration project for some 12 to 15 miles of beach. They gathered at Malacompra Park in the Hammock. (© FlaglerLive)

For 50 hours a week for the next 48 weeks, trucks will dump nearly 1 million tons of sand along 12 to 15 miles of Flagler County beaches, rebuilding the dunes hurricanes washed away.

Despite Questions of Trust, Flagler Commission Clears Way For 200 Homes Around Lakeside on A1A

January 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

A view from Lakeside By the Sea properties, toward the area slated for development that the County Commission approved Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler commissioners voted to approve the 200-home development on either side of Lakeside By the Sea on A1A in a contentious 3-hour hearing in which commissioners said their hands were tied to do anything else.

21 Years From Concept to Take-Off: Flagler Airport Opens $17 Million Runway

January 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A 5,500-foot runway cleared for takeoff at Flagler County Executive Airport. (© FlaglerLive)

The new runway at the Flagler Airport will accommodate more fuel-heavy jets, thus adding to the airport’s fuel sales. Next up is the building of a new terminal.

Ban On: Overriding Commissioner’s Plea, Flagler Enacts Prohibition on Medical Pot Shops

January 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

From left, County Commissioners Greg Hansen, Dave Sullivan and Charlie Ericksen Monday morning voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated Flagler County. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler County TV)

It was the second and final reading of an ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated Flagler, and it passed Monday morning, 3-2, ending a nearly year-long debate.

Jonathan Lord Takes Over Flagler’s Emergency Management as Its 6th Chief in 12 Years

January 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Jonathan Lord, 43, had for more than two years been deputy director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, overseeing the statewide response to Hurricanes Hermine, Matthew and Irma firsthand.

Vacation Rentals Would Be Protected Class in Residential Neighborhoods In Bill Flagler Calls “Extreme”

January 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A row of vacation rental homes on Balboa Island, Calif. The vacation-rental industry is making another big push to eliminate local restrictions on vacation-rental properties in Florida. Flagler County government is resisting. (Prayitno)

One proposed bill would eliminate local regulation of vacation rentals and make it difficult for home-owner associations and towns like Flagler Beach to prevent short-term rentals anywhere.

Painters Hill and Hammock Dunes Property Owners Will Pay Extra Tax for Erosion Control

December 20, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

One of the houses more severely affected by erosion following Hurricane Matthew. It's among the houses getting a seawall soon. (© FlaglerLive)

The four taxing districts, made necessary by hurricanes, will levy surtaxes on property owners only in those areas to defray the cost of protective sand berms and a sea wall the county will build.

Overriding Medical Marijuana Users’ Pleas, and Voters, Flagler Commissioners Pass Dispensary Ban

December 18, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Patricia Freytag holds up an object to show Flagler County Commissioner what a medical marijuana product looks like.

The 3-1 vote to ban medical marijuana dispensaries outright Monday evening ends a year-long process that saw commissioners zigzag between approval and prohibition.

County And Bunnell Score Big Grants For Plantation Bay and Stormwater, Flagler Beach and Palm Coast Do Not

December 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Bunnell County Commissioner John Sowell appeared before the St. Johns River Water Management District Board in Palatka Wednesday to describe the impact a $500,000 grant will have on his city's budget. (© FlaglerLive via SJRWMD)

Flagler County won a $500,000 grant for improvements to its Plantation Bay utility, Bunnell won $460,000 for stormwater and sewer improvements from the St. Johns River Water Management District.

Ethics Commission Orders Kim Weeks and 2 Others To Reimburse $312,000 in Fees Over Frivolous Complaints

December 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Kimberle Weeks speaking to the Florida Ethics Commission in Tallahassee this morning.

The state Ethics Commission ordered Kim Weeks to pay nearly $130,000 and Dennis McDonald and Mark Richter Jr. to pay the rest to compensate the county for defending against frivolous and defaming complaints they’d filed.

Sidestepping Health Concerns, Flagler Approves 5 New Cell Towers, 2 Rising 350 Feet

December 7, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Without denying health hazards, the Flagler County Commission approved the siting of five new cell towers, including one in Palm Coast, as part of its next-generation emergency communications system.

County Calls Waste Pro On the Carpet, Only to Lavish Praise, Flattery and Excuses

December 5, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The county administration is happy with Waste Pro. Commissioners, less so, depending on the month. (c FlaglerLive)

The county administration’s account of Waste Pro trash-hauling service contrasted sharply with commissioners’ stories of complaints, or documented complaints in Palm Coast.

In Reorganization, Hansen Takes County Chairmanship, Sullivan Is on Canvassing Board

December 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

County Commissioner Dave Sullivan, left, and Greg Hansen, now chairman of the county commission. (© FlaglerLive)

The county commission chairmanship gives Hansen added visibility during an election year, while Sullivan takes over a canvassing board position with a fraught history.

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