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charter review

Palm Coast Council Whittles Charter Amendments Down to 3 Minor Changes

February 27, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast Council member Bob Cuff, center, has consistently ensured with his tie-breaking positions that charter-review proposals by Steve Nobile, left, and Heidi Shipley, right, did not get far. (© FlaglerLive)

Council members discarded the idea of expanding the council to seven members and stuck to minor changes about elections in case of death or resignation, and the next charter-review process.

Palm Coast Council Dallies Through a Few Cosmetic Charter Changes in Anticlimactic Sum-Up

January 11, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Facilitator Marilyn Crotty at the first public charter-review workshop last September. Four of the five Palm Coast City Council were at the table for that workshop. Fewer would show for subsequent ones. She ended the process by submitting her report and recommendations to the council on Tuesday. (© FlaglerLive)

Only three or four cosmetic changes might make it on the November ballot, if that, after the Palm Coast City Council waded through a three-hour meeting to determine the future of its charter.

Palm Coast Council Plays Up Charter Review. Until Its Lawyer Says It’s Not What It Seems.

October 25, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Marilyn Crotty leads the second of four Palm Coast charter review workshops earlier this month at the Indian Trail Middle School cafeteria, where, as has been the case at all three workshops, few people turned up. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government is paying the price of trying to have it both ways–appearing to hold a charter review process while at the same time distancing itself from a comprehensive review, as its charter calls for.

Palm Coast Charturbation

October 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Marylin Crotty, in the foreground, 'facilitating' last week's charter-review workshop at Matanzas High School, which was attended by 13 people (city staff and council members not included). Members of the city council sat to the side: Heidi Shipley, Nick Klufas, Bob Cuff and Steven Nobile. (c FlaglerLive)

Breaking its own charter, the Palm Coast council is pretending to be conducting a review of that charter, but the process is a farce and an insult to residents’ intelligence.

Only a Handful Turn Up at Palm Coast’s 1st Charter-Review Workshop; Public Input Limited

September 27, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Attendance at Palm Coast's charter-review workshop was sparse, with half the audience made up of city staffers, reporters or council members. (c FlaglerLive)

Just 13 or 14 people turned up for the first of four city charter-review workshops, and that public’s chance to weigh in was severely constrained by rules that leave the process largely in the council’s control.

Palm Coast Council Will Control Charter-Review Process, With Facilitator and Public Comment

August 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Marilyn Crotty, director of UCF's Florida Institute of Government and the facilitator of some 16 charter reviews in Florida, will shepherd Palm Coast's charter review process over the next half year. (Charles E. Miller, Carroll McKenney Foundation for Public Media)

The Palm Coast City Council is launching its first charter review in 18 years, sitting itself as the charter review committee, with facilitator Marilyn Crotty, who will shepherd the process for $6,000.

Charter Review Proposal Finally Dies Amid Accusations of “Political Ploy” and Straw Men

October 20, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Palm Coast Council member’s proposal for a charter review got no support as fellow-council member Jason DeLorenzo called the move a “political ploy” and Council member Heidi Shipley’s attempt to have the council itself lead a review also failed.

Flagler’s Ronald Reagan Republicans: Don’t Associate Us With Palm Coast Charter Review

September 18, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Mike McElroy, president of the Ronald Reagan Republican Assemblies, says Palm Coast Councilman Steven Nobile’s push for a charter review–while not a bad idea–is entirely his own rather than an agenda of the RRRs.

Missing Key Ingredient—“People”—Charter Review Storm Evaporates as Quickly as It Came

May 19, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Few people showed up at today’s Palm Coast council meeting and fewer still spoke on the charter-review proposal by Council member Steven Nobile, appearing to end the matter.

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