Tuesday Briefing: School Board Taxes, Airport Land Agreement, Owen Parker Sentencing, FPL’s Solar Devices

Today: Partly cloudy with slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent. Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index is at 34.
The OED’s Word of the Day: Pooh Bah, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
• Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Editor’s Tweets
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

In Court: Owen Parker, the 18-year-old (now 19) R-Section resident accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl as she rode her bike in that neighborhood last November, is sentenced before Circuit Judge Dennis Craig at 8:45 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse. Owen has pleaded guilty to the offense. Parker has been held on $20,000 bond at the jail since November (except for a brief release, on his own recognizance, on Saturday so he could attend a funeral.) See the background story here.

The Flagler County School Board holds an informational workshop at 5 p.m. in Training Room 3B, third floor, at the Government Services Building, Bunnell. The board meets at 5:15 p.m. in board chambers vat the Government Services Building to adopt the school district’s property tax for next year. The rate is set by state lawmakers. Board members may not change it. The board will then resume its workshop after the tax meeting is conducted.

The Palm Coast City Council holds a pair of meetings at City Hall in Town Center. The first, at 4 p.m., is a special budget workshop to go over the 2017-18 budget, a workshop rescheduled from last week, when the council did not have a quorum for its regularly scheduled workshop. The council then meets at 6:30 p.m., when council members are expected to extend the moratorium on medical pot dispensaries, approve several land use matters, a new agreement with its firefighters’ union, the installation of solar devices in a partnership with FPL, and a resolution to a land issue involving the city and the county at the county airport.

The Flagler Beach Planning and Architecture Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall in Flagler Beach.

Announcements:

Seniors with diabetes invited to participate in free class at Wickline: Seniors with diabetes are invited to participate in a free six-week class to be held at the George Wickline Senior Center in Flagler Beach. The class runs from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, September 12 through October 17. ElderSource and the Northeast Florida Area Health Education Center are sponsoring the series of workshops. The program is free, but pre-registration is required. It is open to those who are 60 years or older, and who have diabetes. Those interested should call the Northeast Florida Area Health Education Center at 877-784-8486. Class dates are September 12, 19 and 26, and October 3, 10 and 17. The George Wickline Senior Center is at 800 S. Daytona Avenue, Flagler Beach. For more information about the Flagler County Senior Services Department go to www.flaglercounty.org/senior_services.

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.

Ethics: The Legislative Committee of the Florida Commission on Ethics is scheduled to meet. (9 a.m., 325 John Knox Road, Tallahassee.)

Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, will discuss the 2017 legislative session during a meeting of the Heckscher Community Club. (7 p.m., 9364 Heckscher Dr., Jacksonville.)

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Editor’s Tweets

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Updates of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast usually run here, along with a link to the city’s Week in Review. But the Week in Review, under the guise of being modernized, has become flashier and power-point like while becoming less substantive and dumbed down. We may or may not link to it in future.

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Frescobaldi: Toccata in G, Magdalena Baczewska, harpsichord

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• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Symphony B minor, Christophe Coin Ensemble Baroque, Limoges
• Wynton Marsalis Septet: Sunflowers (From The Marciac Suite Album)
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• Ludovico Einaudi, “Elegy for the Arctic”
• Black Violin at Apollo Amateur Night
• Bach’s Beer Bottles: The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 1
• Mozart’s Only String Trio, K563
• Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
• Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: Marcus Roberts Trio, Seiji Ozawa, Cond. (2003)
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• Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, Afiara Quartet
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• World’s Oldest Violin: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
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• Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor, Performed by the Canadian Brass
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• Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
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