Pity City Commissioner NANCY SIKES-KLINE – Cognitive Miser, Park Opponent, WILLIAM B . HARRISS Enabler, Thinks Illegal Dumping Was Only “A Mistake”

St. Augustine City Commissioner NANCY SIKES-KLINE on illegal dumping: “Oh, it was a mistake.”

Poor City Commissioner NANCY SIKES-KLINE. She is supposed to be an “urban planner” and an advocate for historical preservation. She said to me last night of the St. Augustine National Historical Park, National Seashore and National Scenic Coastal Parkway, www.staugustgreen.com, “I could punch holes in it.” Asked for constructive suggestions, she refused, stating, “anything I say to you, you put on your stupid blog.”
A former consultant for land planner KAREN TAYLOR and developers, KLINE refused to disclose her customers.
Last night, NANCY SIKES-KLINE said of the St. Augustine National Historical Park, National Seashore and National Scenic Coastal Parkway, “you need to get your act together. It’s going nowhere.”
In need of getting its "act together" and "going nowhere" on historical preservation is -- according to her former UF Geography Professor Ari Lamme’s 1989 book – our ineffectually-run City of St. Augustine, whose "Amateur Hour" political and economic leadership has never been able to assemble a coherent approach to historical and environmental preservation.
That they would betray future generations because they are bullheaded is a betrayal of every American, especially all of the Florida fourth graders who visit St. Augustine every year.
Our Nation’s Oldest City’s deeply conflicted and very dull leaders would rather fight than switch.
Other than the delightfully outspoken and effervescent City Commissioner Leanna Freeman, our City Commissioners do anything that the City Manager doesn’t tell them to do.
They are thralls (except for Freeman), even rubberstamping the evisceration of Fish Island (last night, see above), rubberstamping the destruction of the 3000-4000 year old Indian village next to St. Augustine High School (January 9, 2006), refusing to ever give City Manager WILLIAM B . HARRISS a performance appraisal in more than eleven years on the job.
Last year, NANCY SIKES-KLINE approached a table at the Tasting Room restaurant re: her candidacy. I asked about the City’s illegal dumping of 40,000 cubic yards in the Old City Reservoir. NANCY SIKES-KLINE’s response: “Oh, it was a mistake.”
Voters are saying it was a “mistake” that they ever picked NANCY SIKES-KLINE for a two year unexpired term, which expires next year.
Will County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan resign from County Commission to run for City Commission?
Will County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan run against NANCY (“Oh, it was a mistake”) SIKES-KLINE?
Or will County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan run against Mayor JOSEPH LEROY BOLES, JR.?
What do y’all reckon?
Stay tuned.