Three cheers for City Manager John Regan, Mayor Joseph Boles, Vice Mayor Leeana Freeman and Commissioners Sikes-Kline, Erroll Jones and William Leary.
Once upon a time in America, St. Augustine had a City Manager (WILLIAM POMAR) "joked" about wanting to take twelve bulldozers and tear down Lincolnville.
Today, we have a fair-minded City Manager, (John Regan) who proposes to "Lift Up Lincolnville."
Activists rejected the City’s notion of fixing Riberia Street in five segments, as funding allowed, in the sweet-bye-and-bye.
We told the City that the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal government services and that ALL of Riberia Street must be fixed (or else the City could face a civil rights lawsuit in federal court).
I am proud of the growth that I have seen in our City government since April 2005, when I attended my first City Commission meeting. In playwright Tony Kushner’s words, in Angels in America, “only in politics does the miraculous occur.”
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