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Homebuilder Edwin Henry threw both Santa Rosa County and the city of Milton for a loop Tuesday when he made a surprise last-minute offer to donate hundreds of acres of his own land for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Milton.
But while County Commissioners were almost giddy at the idea of Henry s offer I think this is an amazing development, said District 1 Commissioner Sam Parker Milton City Manager Randy Jorgenson wasn t immediately sold on the idea. Where did that come from? Jorgenson told the News Journal after the meeting. We ve been at this for 12 years. We re
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Santa Rosa County Administrator Dan Schebler will be given a letter of reprimand for the county’s failure to apply for state money for road projects.
The board’s unanimous decision, during a seven-hour meeting Tuesday night in Milton, doesn’t put the matter to rest. District 3 Commissioner James Calkins said he would look into having an independent “third party” investigate what went wrong. At issue was the county missing a March deadline to apply to be considered for money from the state’s Small County Outreach Program (SCOP). Schebler took responsibility for the missed deadline.
A majority of commissioners said the lapse was not worth firing Schebler, who has been with the county since 2017. A crowd of about 50 people disagreed. Speaker after speaker took to the lectern to say the episode shows a lack of leadership and transparency between the county and its residents. Schebler last month said the county had applied by the deadline but the state had run out of mone