Monday Briefing: Interim Manager, Sheriff’s Task Force, Dressing Up Vision in Bunnell, Fun Coast Bartending

Today:: Cooler. Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. 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: 81
The OED’s Word of the day: winter fish, 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 Last 24 Hours of Incident Reports
• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

“In the brutal, bloody century between Columbus’s voyage and John White’s, an idea was born, out of fantasy, out of violence, the idea that there exists in the world a people who live in an actual Garden of Eden, a state of nature, before the giving of laws, before the forming of government. This imagined history of America became an English book of genesis, their new truth.¶ ‘In the beginning,’ the Englishman John Locke would write, ‘all the world was America.’ In America, everything became a beginning.”

–From Jill Lepore’s “These Truths: A History of the United States” (2018). 

Previously:

Voltaire as Job | Joe McCarthy and “objectivity” | Playboy generation | Crookedness | Millionaires | Johnny Carson’s Christmas | CVS pharmacies | Do you inhale? Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? | A modern society | Updike’s boozers | Poor whites’ suicides | Saul Bellow’s death | Fallacy of straight A’s | Inherited qualities | Fear of death | Isolation of innocence | Socrates’ Apology | Justice Jackson’s patriotism | Tweet-free Britain | Disbelieving science | Life | The world made for man? | Global warming’s escalator to hell | Shoreline retreat | First Thanksgiving

 

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.

Today is a professional development day for Flagler County school district teachers. No school.

Interim county manager: The Flagler County Commission meets in a special meeting at 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, Bunnell, to decide who to appoint interim county administrator in the wake of Craig Coffey’s resignation Friday, and how to proceed with finding a replacement.

Sheriff’s Building Task Force: The Flagler County Commission meets in aregularly scheduled meeting at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, Bunnell. Commissioners will discuss and vote on creating a task force to address issues related to the Sheriff’s Operations Center.

The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 201 West Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Commissioners will be considering toughening up the city’s dress code. The proposed new policy states: “City of Bunnell department directors may exercise reasonable discretion to determine appropriateness in employee dress and appearance. Employees who do not meet a professional standard may be sent home to change, and nonexempt employees will not be paid for that time. Reasonable accommodations will be made where required.” The proposed policy adds: “Appropriate workplace dress does not include clothing that is too tight or revealing; clothing with rips, tears or frays; or any extreme style or fashion in dress, footwear, accessories, fragrances or hair.” Commissioners will also be asked to approve the appointment of Dustin Vost as the Infrastructure Director, and will discuss and possibly approve new Mission Statement and Vision Statement, hopefully without grammatical errors. The proposed Mission Statement reads: “The City of Bunnell will provide it’s [sic.] residents, businesses, visitors, partners and staff with value centric leadership to create a safe, sustainable, attractive, strong and vibrant community while building on our rich heritage as the foundation to improve the City’s economic future and to achieve the highest possible quality of life for the overall community through the exemplary services we provide.”

Bunnell Elementary PTO meeting, 5 p.m. in the school cafeteria.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week (schedule your donation by going to the website and entering a Palm Coast zip code, then locating one of the venues below):

• Tuesday: Flagler Animal Hospital, 130 Old Kings Road South, Flagler Beach, from 10 a.m to 1 p.m.
• Tuesday: Coastal Cloud, One Hammock Beach Parkway, Palm Coast, from 2 to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday: Flagler County Public Transportation Department, 5400 State Road 100, Palm Coast, 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Wednesday: Aldi, 5095 State Road 100, Palm Coast, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
• Saturday: Chick Fil A, 1000 Palm Coast Parkway, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell

Jail Bookings, June 19-22 Sheriff's night shift incident reports, June 21 Sheriff's day shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, June 21
Previous and archived reports

Announcements:

Flagler County Land Management on Thursday conducted its first prescribed fire of 2019 on an 11-acre section of Princess Place Preserve. Land Management assembled a team that also includes Flagler County Fire Rescue, Florida Park Service, and Florida Forest Service. “This is our first prescribed fire of the year and all of us working together, so we wanted to start small,” said Land Management Technician Mike Orlando, who was “burn boss” for this fire. Flagler County hired Orlando in April 2018 for his expertise as a Certified Burner Manager. He has worked about 500 prescribed fires in Florida. Fire is a natural and necessary component of wildfire mitigation and ecosystem maintenance within nearly all of Florida’s ecosystems, and vital to local Land Management duties as it maintains about 10,000 acres within Flagler. A successful prescribed fire, also referred to as a “controlled” fire, removes the hazardous level of fuel in a given area. Unplanned wildfires have a greater risk of being destructive, because the accumulation of vegetation serves as the fuel for these hotter, faster moving fires. Flagler County’s goal with prescribed fire in Princess Place Preserve is longleaf pine restoration. Longleaf pine already exists in the area of Thursday’s burn – which mimics the natural fires that have historically occurred every two to three years within longleaf pine ecosystems. A thriving ecosystem reduces the invasive species populations while enhancing other native plants and animals. “It’s all about the trees,” Orlando said. “Periodic fire supports a healthy forest, which has a diversity of plant and animal species.”

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.

PATRONIS SPEAKS AT CHAMBER EVENT: State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is expected to be among the speakers during the Florida Chamber Foundation’s 2019 Economic Outlook & Jobs Summit. Other speakers are expected to include newly appointed Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Executive Director Ken Lawson and Enterprise Florida President and CEO Jamal Sowell. (Monday, 10 a.m., GuideWell Innovation Center at Lake Nona Medical City, 6555 Sanger Road, Orlando.)

USF TRUSTEES HUDDLE: The University of South Florida Board of Trustees will hold a workshop. (Monday, 2 p.m., University of South Florida, Marshall Student Center, Tampa.)

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

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

Keep Up with Donald Trump’s attacks on the press through the ACLU’s running tab here.

Keep Up with mass shootings in a running database here.

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Here’s a summary of the latest city developments as of Jan. 11, 2019, with a link to the full week in review here.

Click to access palm-coast-week-in-review-jan-11-2019.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda

Jean Sibelius, Tapiola: Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, Orchestra of the Slovak Philharmony

Previous Codas:

• Ciaccona in E flat major by Silvius Leopold Weiss, performed by Nigel North
• Brahms’s Requiem
• Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 (“Trout”)
• Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel (Midnight Mass for Christmas)
• Mozart – Violin Concerto No.3, Hillary Hahn
• Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Ivan Klansky, piano
• Victor Herbert’s Irish Rhapsody
• Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for Guitar and Strings
• Claude Bolling – Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio: Gracieuse (Carlo Pari)
• Aldo Ciccolini Performs Brahms’s Intermezzo n.2 op.118
• Erik Bosgraaf in performance at Wilton’s Music Hall
• Erik Bosgraaf & the Stradivarius of the recorder
• Medtner : Sonata for Piano in A Minor Op. 38 n°1 “Reminiscenza” (Evgeny Svetlanov)
• Ferdinand Ries: Quartet in D minor
• Rossini: Sonata Nr. 1 in G Major
• Copland’s 3rd Symphony
• Zdenek Fibich: Poem Op. 41, No.4 from “At Twilight”
• Kuhlau: Sonatine No.1 in C Major, Op. 20
• Beethoven 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli Op 120, Gavin Arturo Gamboa, piano
• Philip Glass: American Four Seasons with violinist Robert McDuffie
• Elgar’s “Nimrod”: Daniel Barenboim with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1997
• Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Ravel : Piano Concerto in G major (Martha Argerich : Orchestre national de France)
• Schubert: Piano Sonata No.20 D.959 / Paul Badura-Skoda (1993)
• Antonio Vivaldi’s “Vedro con mio diletto” from Il Giustino by Jakub Józef Orliński
• Bill Evans Trio: Some Day My Prince Will Come (1965)