In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Missing Files At City Hall (III)
Only after we complained to the State Attorney General's office did the City of St. Augustine bestir itself to provide the Shade Meeting Transcript to the City Clerk's office on May 1. Shade Meeting Transcripts are public records. It was required to be available in in June 2003, as required by Florida's Sunshine law. No explanation. No apology. No respect for public rights to know. In St. Augustine, a day without open records is like a day without Sunshine. So it goes with the government of the Nation' Oldest (European-founded) City (which Dr. King called its "most lawless") City. Mediocrity and mendacity in management oozes on.
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