County Cancels Illegal Meeting w/o Notice to Public

Oh what a tangled web County Commission Chair PRISCILLA BENNETT weaved when she said that the County Commission Auditorium was "too formal" for a "joint meeting" with the City of St. Augustine Beach Commissioners.  Her ukase skirted the specific resolution passed by St. Augustine Beach, providing for a meeting in the County Commission Auditorium.

Her perversion of that lawful meeting into an illegal meeting in an outbuilding conference room is now cancelled, unilaterally, by St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK (see below).  Another day, another victory.  How sweet it is!  Thanks, PRISCILLA, for backing down.

Arrogant St. Johns County Commission Chair PRISCILLA BENNETT et al. want to run government as a privatized Republican cartel.  We won't let them get away with it, even as they are awash in cash and emboldened to break laws with impunity and immunity under the suzerainty of  Sheriff DAVID BERNERD SHOAR f/k/a "HOAR" and RALPH DAVID LARIZZA, inept, ethically-challenged, unjust stewards who allegedly covered up the September 2, 2010 shooting of Michelle O'Connell in the home of Deputy JEREMY BANKS.

-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin
Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2015 3:32 pm
Subject: Persistent Sunshine and ADA Violations; County Must Cease and Desist Sunshine and Constitutional Rights Violations: Joint County-City of SAB Meeting Must Be Televised In County Auditorium, Not Away From Cameras in Outbuilding Conference Room

Dear Priscilla, Mike, Pat and all:

1. Thank you for listening and for halting Priscilla's ill-advised plans to force the City of St. Augustine Beach to attend an illegal meeting.

2. When were any of you people planning to let the public know?

3. Does being County Commission Chair Priscilla Bennett or Administrator Michael Wanchick "mean never having to say you're sorry?"

4. Please cease and desist holding meetings that are not televised and otherwise ADA-accessible.

5. Why was our October 13, 2015 St. Johns County legislative delegation meeting never televised or archived on GTV, as it was in the past?  Shut-ins are unable to view that meeting. Why?

It's our money.

Thank you.

Cordially,

Ed Slavin

www.edslavin.com

904-377-4998

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Royle <mroyle@cityofsab.org>
To: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2015 1:37 pm
Subject: FW: Joint Meeting between SJC BCC & City of St. Aug Beach Commission

In response to your recent inquiry.

From: Laura Taylor [mailto:ltaylor@sjcfl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:21 AM
To: Max Royle
Cc: Comm Samuels; 'Doug Burnett (dburnett@sjlawgroup.com)'; Joy Andrews; Michael Wanchick; Diane Lehmann; Linda Darty; Darrell Locklear; Betty Dixon; Thomas Filloramo; Yvonne King; Patrick McCormack; Melissa Lundquist; Lauren Ferro
Subject: Joint Meeting between SJC BCC & City of St. Aug Beach Commission

Please be advised that the Joint Meeting between SJCBCC and City of St. Augustine Beach Commission that was scheduled for Monday, October 26^th will be rescheduled to later date.  We will be happy to work with the St Aug Beach City Manager’s office to find a date and location that we can mutually agree upon for a future Joint meeting.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Laura S. Taylor

St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners

Assistant to the County Administrator

Office of the County Administrator

Phone:  904.209.0533 | Fax  904.209.0534

Email:   ltaylor@sjcfl.us

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From: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>; bcc1jjohns <bcc1jjohns@sjcfl.us>; bcc2jsmith <bcc2jsmith@sjcfl.us>; bccd3 <bccd3@sjcfl.us>; bccd4 <bccd4@sjcfl.us>; bccd5 <bccd5@sjcfl.us>; mlundquist <mlundquist@sjcfl.us>; bjihaad <bjihaad@sjcfl.us>; tfilloramo <tfilloramo@sjcfl.us>; dlocklear <dlocklear@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2015 1:23 pm
Subject: Re: County Must Cease and Desist Sunshine and Constitutional Rights Violations: Joint County-City of SAB Meeting Must Be Televised In County Auditorium, Not Away From Cameras in Outbuilding Conference Room

Please respond -- still not on our SJC BCC meeting calendar.  Why?

-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 4:10 pm
Subject: Re: County Must Cease and Desist Sunshine and Constitutional Rights Violations: Joint County-City of SAB Meeting Must Be Televised In County Auditorium, Not Away From Cameras in Outbuilding Conference Room

There is no public notice of any kind on the County Commission website for any meeting with the City of St. Augustine Beach on October 26, 2015 at 9 AM.  

Why?

-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 11:49 am
Subject: County Must Cease and Desist Sunshine and Constitutional Rights Violations: Joint County-City of SAB Meeting Must Be Televised In County Auditorium, Not Away From Cameras in Outbuilding Conference Room

Dear Chair Bennett, et al.:

1. Please cease and desist your tentative plans to hold the October 26, 2015 County-City of St. Augustine Beach joint meeting outside the Sunshine, in an out-building conference room, instead of televised on GTV, in the County Administration Building Auditorium, the only place where it is legal for St. Augustine Beach City Commission to meet with you under F.S. 166.0213 and SAB's October 5, 2015 resolution authorizing the joint meeting.  

2. Background: the City of St. Augustine Beach City Attorney, Mr. Douglas Nelson Burnett, researched my concerns about F.S. 286.  

3. Thus, Mr. Burnett prepared a responsive resolution, which was unanimously enacted with my support October 5, 2015 pursuant to a 2014 Florida statute governing out-of-town meetings: it states that the meeting will be in the Auditorium of the County Administration Building at 500 Sebastian View.  

4. You may view the proceedings one hour and twenty minutes into the October 5, 2015 SAB Commission meeting on the City of St. Augustine Beach website here: http://www.staugbch.com/meetings/archived/

5. The SAB resolution is mandatory under F.S. 166.0213; any deviation is unauthorized by statutory and constitutional law. Prior City and St. Augustine Beach and City of St. Augustine meetings outside City limits without such a resolution were illegal, ultra vires and unconstitutional. 

6. The County Auditorium was specified by the October 5, 2015 SAB Commission resolution. Any other proposed location is unauthorized by the resolution and violates the resolution and therefore F.S. 166.0213, F.S. 286, and Florida Const. Article VIII, 2c.

7. Commission Chairman PRISCILLA ("RACHAEL") BENNETT' (a/k/a "The Muse" on The St. Augustine Record website) reported alleged remarks about the Commission's meeting room being "too formal" for the joint meeting betray once again her desire to violate Sunshine laws and her attempt to inflict her corporate background upon our governments, to the detriment of transparency.

8.  Enough.  No more shady un-televised County Commission meetings are desired are required.  

9. The public interest in development decisions outweighs Ms. Bennett's desire for a "less formal" setting -- this is our government, not a St. Johns County Republican club social meeting or a tea for government contractors, developers  foreign investors,  secretive Limited Liability Companies, and their ilk.

10. In the words of my late Irish-Bavarian grandmother, kindly "drop the oyster and leave the wharf."  

Please govern yourselves accordingly and herein faileth not.

Thank you.

Cordially,

Ed Slavin

www.edslavin.com

904-377-4998

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Reynolds <thomasfreynolds@yahoo.com>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 10:33 am
Subject: Fw: Joint County City Meeting

Update with notice sent to Beach City Commissioners.

On Friday, October 16, 2015 10:27 AM, Tom Reynolds <thomasfreynolds@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 4:39 PM, Patrick McCormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us> wrote:

Hi Tom,

The proposed date/location are:

Monday, October 26, 2015 9:00 AM-12:00 PM.

HHS Bldg (Health & Human Services) - Muscovy Conf Room (1st Floor)

v/r

Pat

Patrick F. McCormack

County Attorney

St. Johns County

500 San Sebastian View

St. Augustine, Florida 32084

(904)209-0805 office

(904)209-0806 fax

pmccormack@sjcfl.us

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