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Gainesville Regional Utilities has recently renewed its request for approval of funding for smart meters, estimated to cost over $47 million in the first two years during implementation.
The Gainesville City Commission considered the item during its Feb. 4 meeting. Sadly, news coverage of this important issue was quickly sidelined by a needless distraction, the arrest of a local attorney for failing to keep his face mask on during the meeting.
The meeting video discloses that the attorney’s mask slipped twice under his nose and that he apparently became frustrated with it and pulled it off while addressing the commission, saying to Mayor Lauren Poe, “I’m not going to put my mask on so I can be heard” and “I am more than six feet away.” (The video discloses no problem being heard.)
2 months ago Share A broken connector for the aerial ignition machine prevented the planned use of the FireFlight helicopter to start the fire. by: Julie Murphy Flagler County Public Information Officer
Flagler County Land Management successfully completed a 46-acre prescribed fire on Jan. 21 at Princess Place Preserve, but despite meticulous planning, it was not the launch of FireFlight as a tool of Flagler County’s mitigation program. A broken connector for the aerial ignition machine prevented it.
“To say this was a disappointment for us is an understatement,” said Prescribed Fire Program Supervisor Mike Orlando, who was “burn boss” for the day. “While we still accomplished our goal, we had been working toward this day – utilizing FireFlight and the PLDO (aerial ignition machine) to make our process safer and faster – for a very long time.” Orlando explained that the aerial ignition machine releases spheres that create a chemical rea