TODD DAVD NEVILLE (R-PROCTORVILLE) a/k/a "ODD TODD" showed his effrontery Monday night when he attacked Mayor Nancy Shaver for asking for asking for an Army Corps study on the St. Augustine inlet's effect on flooding. It's a valid question, and we need answers for decision-making.
As much as USACE has done to damage the environment, we need computer modeling to know whether the current location of the St. Augustine Inlet has an effect on flooding. People in Davis Shores have been flooded out twice in eleven months, but Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma.
Professional help may be required to help diagnose the etiology of Commissioner Vice Mayor "ODD TODD" NEVILLE's increasingly odd behavior at St. Augustine City Commission meetings. The symptoms include ODD TODD's lack of impulse control, red-faced anger, irritating interruption of the four women Commissioners. They suggest some deep-seated psychological pathology, perhaps caffeine-related. The angry ambitious C.P.A. refuses to disclose his developer client list. "ODD TODD" lacks self-control, attacking First Amendment protected activity, e.g., by demanding to have the City pay for him to file an unconstitutional SLAPP libel lawsuit against Historic City News and Michael Gold. He attacked me Monday night after I questioned the constitutionality of the proposed panhandler ordinance, earning a gaveling by Mayor Nancy Shaver for "personal attacks" that she said were "not helpful."
"ODD TODD" is definitely an oddity, an outlier, an anti-data energumen, and a stench in our nostrils. NEVILLE is the Nation's Oldest City's Oddest elected official.
"ODD TODD" laid an egg in January when he demanded to fire St. Augustine City Manager John Patrick Regan, P.E. NEVILLE, who dressed as a hot dog on Halloween, was a hot dog at Commission late Monday night, March 26, 2018.
Controversial Vice Mayor and City Commissioner "ODD TODD" NEVILLE is most noted for his chauvinistic demand to spend city money to file a libel lawsuit against Michael Gold and Historic City News in 2015 for expressing an opinion about conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety. NEVILLE caused City Attorney ISABELLE CHRISTINE LOPEZ to spend time and money on his own retaliatory pursuit. Governments cannot file libel lawsuits. Public figures are prohibited from winning libel lawsuits unless they can show "actual malice and willful disregard of the truth." Expressing opinions is First Amendment protected activity. NEVILLE is a noisome, nasty nattering nut, a stench in the nostrils of the City of St. Augustine. What do y'all reckon?
Commissioner calls out mayor over email
By Sheldon Gardner
Posted Mar 27, 2018 at 7:30 PM
Updated at 5:57 AM
Vice Mayor Todd Neville said Monday night that Mayor Nancy Shaver acted outside of her authority when she asked via email for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the effects of closing the St. Augustine Inlet.
He said the Commission hadn’t discussed the study and hadn’t approved her asking for it on the city’s behalf, and she’s not supposed to make decisions on the city’s behalf when commissioners have not provided consensus, he said.
In St. Augustine, the mayor is the ceremonial face of the city and presides at meetings, but the mayor has no more voting power than others on the Commission.
Shaver said the study came up while she attended a meeting at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve that included discussion on sea level rise. She also learned that the city could apply for funding from the Army Corps for the study, and she said she sent the request because of a tight deadline.
Based on feedback from commissioners on Monday, she said she would retract the request.
In her email to the Army Corps, she wrote that “the hypothesis” is that closing the inlet could possibly help with erosion on Porpoise Point, “improve sand accretion” and reduce the need for Vilano Beach sand renourishment; reduce dredging requirements in the harbor and “return the barrier island to its natural state, providing greater storm and sea level rise protection to the city of St. Augustine.”
Commissioner calls out mayor over email
By Sheldon Gardner
Posted at 7:30 PM
Updated at 7:30 PM
Vice Mayor Todd Neville said Monday night that Mayor Nancy Shaver acted outside of her authority when she asked via email for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the effects of closing the St. Augustine Inlet.
He said the Commission hadn’t discussed the study and hadn’t approved her asking for it on the city’s behalf, and she’s not supposed to make decisions on the city’s behalf when commissioners have not provided consensus, he said.
In St. Augustine, the mayor is the ceremonial face of the city and presides at meetings, but the mayor has no more voting power than others on the Commission.
Shaver said the study came up while she attended a meeting at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve that included discussion on sea level rise. She also learned that the city could apply for funding from the Army Corps for the study, and she said she sent the request because of a tight deadline.
Based on feedback from commissioners on Monday, she said she would retract the request.
In her email to the Army Corps, she wrote that “the hypothesis” is that closing the inlet could possibly help with erosion on Porpoise Point, “improve sand accretion” and reduce the need for Vilano Beach sand renourishment; reduce dredging requirements in the harbor and “return the barrier island to its natural state, providing greater storm and sea level rise protection to the city of St. Augustine.”
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