St. Augustine lifts mask requirement in city buildings
The city announced that members of the public will not be required to wear masks when coming into city facilities to conduct business or for public meetings. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 4:53 PM EDT May 6, 2021 Updated: 5:05 PM EDT May 6, 2021
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. The City of St. Augustine has lifted its mask requirement in city facilities in accordance with Governor Ron DeSantis recent Executive Order.
On Thursday, the city announced that members of the public will not be required to wear masks when coming into city facilities to conduct business or for public meetings.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is allowed to line-item veto the budget, could still wipe out the funding. Last year, DeSantis vetoed the Ponte Vedra dune restoration along with many other local projects like the St. Augustine Lighthouse and the West Augustine sewage project. The budget goes into effect on July 1 and runs through June 30, 2022.
Here are some highlights for St. Johns County:
Infrastructure
$300,000: West Augustine Septic-to-Sewer Program for West 3rd St., from HB 3411. Sponsored by State Rep. Cyndi Stevenson, the funding would go toward building a sanitary sewer system. The request was made by St. Augustine City Manager John Reagan. According to the request, the project is expected to Improve groundwater and well quality and increase storm hardening by constructing a sanitary sewer system on W. 3rd Street between S. Volusia and Duval streets.
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A solar array being proposed on a five-parcel heavily wooded area on VanBuren Road near a village of Fredonia neighborhood created some friction during the Pomfret Town Board meeting this month.
“We recognize that the east side of our project sits against a neighborhood in the village of Fredonia,” began RIC Energy Permitting Manager John Reagan. “We sent some information to the neighbors and talked to them several times. We revised our site plan and resubmitted that site plan for this month’s meeting. Essentially the changes that were made is that we eliminated about 2,600 of the modules on the eastside of the project which basically moves the set back by another 75-80 feet, so now we’ll have a setback of about 180 feet from the property line to the solar arrays.”
Northumberland council candidate called not fit for office over incredibly offensive Facebook posts
Revell Cornell is standing to be councillor for the Plessey ward, in Blyth, for Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party
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A Northumberland council candidate has been slammed as not fit for public office , after sharing incredibly offensive Facebook posts.
Following protests by a city resident, St. Augustine City Manager John Regan said he s moving forward with fresh efforts to make safety changes at a dangerous traffic curve.
Bruce Bates, of Anastasia Island, wants safety improvements on Anastasia Boulevard along what he calls dead man s curve, the stretch that includes Red Cox Drive, Old Quarry Road and Anastasia Park Road.
Bates launched a website, deadmanscurve.us, and a petition about the matter, and he spoke during public comment at Monday s Commission meeting.
Regan said the city has been working on the issue for years, and part of the issue is that some fatalities have involved drugs or alcohol so they re not counted in methodologies that can lead to change.