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Elections Supervisor Again Giving Palm Coast Grief Over 2014 Voting, Jeopardizing Taxpayer Savings

FlaglerLive | December 17, 2013

Tangled conflicts over realistically minor matter has been the context of Weeks’s relations with the city over the past four months. She’s not been wrong as much as disproportionately alarmist over problems that have relatively simple solutions. Minor missteps aside, the city has readily offered solutions. Weeks has not been as quick to accept them.

Palm Coast Council Again Warms to City Hall Scheme That Would Snub Voter Permission

FlaglerLive | July 31, 2013

City Manager Jim Landon is proposing a refurbished $6.8 million plan that would use general fund dollars to build a new city hall without raising taxes, even though $5.8 million of that–a repayment from the Town Center taxing district–could be used to lower property taxes or build other capital projects with broader public uses. Residents had roundly rejected a similar plan in 2010 and 2011, when the building would have cost $10 million.

Palm Coast Council Sniffs at Gang of Six Push for New City Hall, Opting for Rental Analysis

FlaglerLive | July 9, 2013

At least three council members are opposed to a new city hall, citing timing and the absence of a referendum, and in one case ridiculing a proposal put forth by aged and former council members pushing for a new building. But council members want clearer numbers about their options as the city’s three-year lease on its City Market Place digs nears expiration in November 2014.

Booze Up: Palm Coast Government Is Your New Special-Events Bartender

FlaglerLive | March 12, 2013

After some reservations two weeks ago, the Palm Coast City Council Tuesday agreed to have the city acquire a liquor license and itself sell booze at the city’s special events, generating more cash the city says it will reinvest at those events.

Palm Coast City Council’s Bill Lewis: Two Minutes, Six Errors, Countless Sneers

FlaglerLive | November 21, 2012

When Palm Coast City Councilman Bill Lewis took to the floor of a council meeting to correct a fact in a FlaglerLive column, which had already been corrected, he committed more than six errors of his own, including about his own personal history. Lewis’s errors bear correcting as publicly as he committed them.

In a Day of Inaugurals, 3 Governments Swear In New Members and 2 Elect New Chairmen

FlaglerLive | November 20, 2012

The Flagler County Commission, the school board and the Palm Coast City Council all either welcomed new members or shuffled their chairmanships in an annual ritual with a mixture of ceremony and consequences.

The Palm Coast City Council’s Arrogance Problem

FlaglerLive | November 18, 2012

The secret, undemocratic way the Palm Coast City Council went about picking its latest unelected member is the latest disturbing example of a council’s contempt for the public, and of the maneuverings of a manager with a Donald Trump complex.

David Ferguson, a Conservative Business Consultant, is Appointed to Palm Coast Council

FlaglerLive | November 13, 2012

David Ferguson, a 60-year-old business consultant, will fill out the two years remaining in Frank Meeker’s term, ensuring that the panel will remain an all-male fraternity until at least 2014, when the seat is one of two up for election. That of Bill Lewis, also an appointee, is the other.

16 Applicants for Palm Coast Council Short-Listed to 4; Closed-Door Interviews Next

FlaglerLive | November 7, 2012

The Palm Coast City Council will appoint one of four remaining applicants to fill out Frank Meeker’s term, which ends in 2014. The appointment will follow council members’ closed-door interviews with each candidate next Tuesday, then a vote. Meeker won an election to the county commission.

Elections Supervisor Again Giving Palm Coast Grief Over 2014 Voting, Jeopardizing Taxpayer Savings

Palm Coast Council Again Warms to City Hall Scheme That Would Snub Voter Permission

Palm Coast Council Sniffs at Gang of Six Push for New City Hall, Opting for Rental Analysis

Booze Up: Palm Coast Government Is Your New Special-Events Bartender

Palm Coast City Council’s Bill Lewis: Two Minutes, Six Errors, Countless Sneers

In a Day of Inaugurals, 3 Governments Swear In New Members and 2 Elect New Chairmen

The Palm Coast City Council’s Arrogance Problem

David Ferguson, a Conservative Business Consultant, is Appointed to Palm Coast Council

16 Applicants for Palm Coast Council Short-Listed to 4; Closed-Door Interviews Next

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