Controversial St. Johns County Tourist Development Council Chairman WILLIAM HUGHES, Manager of the Players Championship Golf Course at Sawgrass (and TDC member Fred Cozby, Manager of the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club) were both possibly reappointed to four year terms without any other candidates being considered.
I asked our County for all documents on the reappointment, and received only two E-mails and applications from these two men.
The response was unadorned by any evidence of "advertisement or solictation" of others to apply.
This may violate SJC BCC Rule 2.202C, which requires enough time for "advetisment and solitication of applications."
It may also violate putative TDC "policies" that are listed on TDC's website, stating that "members may serve only one four-year term" but "in the event the member is appointed chair, the member may serve up to six years."
That TDC website also suggests the etiology of the non-competitive reappointment (possibly illegal) of Messrs HUGHES and Cozby: it states that invitations are to be sent to "local tourism industry groups."
That's not exacty Sunshine public notice of a vacancy, is it?
We call that corporativism, and Chairman HUGHES' reappointment (and Mr. Cozby's) may not only violate BCC rules, it may be illegal and unconstitutional, in violation of the Delegation Doctrine.
That's the cozy way that business is done in St. Johns County.
What do you reckon?
I have written the County Attorney and County Administrator to clarify the situation.
To be continued.....
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