Mayor Shaver: "Our Streets Are Not Lively"

Mayor Nancy Shaver said March 23, 2015 that "our streets are not lively" amid an initial City Attorney discussion on bringing musicians and artists back aimed at revivifying our Nation's Oldest City, where setting up an easel in the plaza is currently prohibited, except the market, for sales. In response to Mayor Nancy Shaver asked about -- "Someone who wants to set up an easel and paint can do so" anywhere else in the world, except for our City's most scenic Plaza, which is "cordoned off," Assistant City Attorney Denise May acknowledged. "It's not pretty," Mayor Shaver said.

Listing the "business community, the artists, the performers, and so forth" as the "stakeholders," Assistant City Attorney Denise May's March 23, 2015 discussion with City Commissioners on anti-artist and musician was partisan, lacking heart, soul and data -- like other things in our Nation's Oddest City. It's Chicago writ small, with a reform mayor and recalcitrant City Hall. We SHALL overcome!

Note that:

1. NO public comment was allowed under the City's arcane cabined procedural rules, which do not allow liberal public comment on all agenda items, unlike the City of St. Augustine Beach, St. Johns County Commission, and other local governments. Our City of St. Augustine is still behaving like what Dr. King called the "most lawless" city in America. Commissioners never apologized for their adopting what Saint Augustine would himself call an "unjust law," the procedural resolution adopted December 8, 2014.

2. Thus, I never got a question to request a public answer to my persistent public questions about the June 26, 2014 unanimous Supreme Court decision on Massachusetts' abortion picketing statute. The public is still being disrespected by City Hall staff.