Friday, October 24, 2014

Stonewalling By City of St. Augustine on Open Records Requests Still Continues After All These Years



I expect to speak to City Commissioners Monday, October 27 on topics for which no electronic or other documents have yet been provided:
1. No-bid and one-bid contracts
2. Red water
3. Defective, shoddy products causing red water (ductile iron pipe and iron pipe fittings)
4. Oligopoly and possible antitrust violations relating to red water
5. High water rates and ongoing water rate study
6. Water cutoffs and reconnection charges
7. Insurance policies
8. List of all City and contractor employees, with salaries and hourly rates
9. $32,700 in City-purchased Mumford & Sons Tickets (partial response only -- something very fishy here -- awaiting data)
10. City policies, including those bearing on our all-white fire department, all-white police department and unsafe work practices causing higher workers compensation rates since 2007.
11. Communications and relationships with ex-Mayor LEN WEEKS a/k/a "CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS,JR." law client and business partner with Mayor JOSEPH LESTER BOLES,Jr. in 81 St. George Street no-bid City of St. Augustine lease (subleased without City permission in violation of lease terms).
12. Chloramine in our drinking water
13. Budget and spending for city committees
14. Detailed justification for budget items
15. Mayor JOE BOLES a/k/a "JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, JR." forming supposed non-profit with two City employees four years ago ("St. Augustine Trust for Historic Preservation, Inc.), with the two asking last week that they be removed from BOLES' board.

Delay and desuetude and slow and halting compliance with Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution, enacted by vote of 3.8 million Floridians in 1992 (83% of those voting).
Pitiful.

1 comment:

Warren Celli said...

Ed Slavin,

Kudos to you and many thanks for all that you do. I have said it many times before and I will say it again — I wish the city had a hundred of you!

With Great Respect,
Warren Celli