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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.

State Ethics Panel Ratifies $2,500 Fine on Flagler Commissioner Revels Over 2 Violations

January 28, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Florida Commission on Ethics Friday unanimously approved a $2,500 fine on Flagler County Commissioner Barbara Revels over two violations of the state ethics law, stemming from Revels’s role in the county’s purchase of the old Memorial hospital in Bunnell.

Flagler Commissioner Revels Faces $2,500 Fine Over Ethics Violations as Investigation Points To Discrepancies

January 14, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Though she was the swing vote, County Commissioner Barbara Revels now concedes that she should have abstained from voting to buy the old Memorial hospital in Bunnell in 2013, and that she should have filed a conflict-of-interest form.

New Sheriff’s HQ Square Footage Grows By a Third Even as Construction Cost Falls to $4.2 Million

December 2, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Instead of a $6.2 million demolition and construction project, the lowest bid for the sheriff’s HQ came in at $4.2 million, with the sheriff gaining 9,000 more square feet in the bargain, for a total of 35,000 square feet.

Skeptical Judge Grants Delay in “Watchdog” Suit Against County Over Old Hospital Buy

August 27, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A suit by a group that calls itself the Flagler Palm Coast Watchdogs, raising a conflict of interest issue with a county commissioner during the Memorial Hospital buy last year, does not belong in circuit court, the county argues.

Flagler County Argues Charge Against Commissioner Revels Belongs at Ethics Commission, Not in Court

July 9, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Flagler County's $1.23 million acquisition of the old Memorial Hospital building last year is at the center of a lawsuit by a new group against the county. (© FlaglerLive)

County Attorney Al Hadeed countered a lawsuit alleging ethical improprieties by Commissioner Barbara Revels in last summer’s purchase of the old Memorial Hospital by claiming that the group suing has no standing in circuit court, but can take its case to the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Lawsuit and Ethics Charge Cite Flagler Commissioner Revels Ties to Business Associate in County’s Old Hospital Buy

July 1, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

Commissioners Barbara Revels, center, and Frank Meeker, right, are named in a lawsuit by a watchdog group that seeks to stop county construction on the old Memorial Hospital property, which the commissioners inspected last May an hour before voting to buy the building at three times its assessed value. (© FlaglerLive)

A group calling itself the Flagler Palm Coast Watchdogs filed a lawsuit against Flagler County, seeking to stop construction on the old Memorial Hospital property slated to be the sheriff’s headquarters, and alleging that Commissioner Barbara Revels did not disclose owning shares in the bank run by one of the men who sold the hospital to the county for $1.23 million last August.

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