JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E.: City Manager shows insouciance to facts, knowledge gaps

Troubled St. Augustine City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E. seems just a bit off his game.  What's wrong?  

Is JOHN REGAN:

• Burnt-out?
• Ready to retire?
• Preoccupied?  
• Bored?  
• Listening too much to his mean, mendacious mentor, former City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS?
• All over the above?

Like WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS, will REGAN soon be Gone With the Wind?

From failing to follow up on citizen and Commissioners concerns -- not even writing them down -- to a mediocre presentation on parkland purchasing at the September 24, 2018 meeting -- REGAN is not paying attention.

He's paid more than enough to pay attention -- some $171,000 per annum, plus benefits.

But he forgets commitments.

He ducks phone messages.

When citizens and Commissioners raise concerns, REGAN is not following up.

He's not even writing them down.

Worse, he's directed the City Clerk to OMIT the sum and substance of citizen concerns from City minutes.  Our names are listed.  Little else.  Even in PZB and HARB minutes.

A simple Excel spreadsheet could help.

But recently re-elected St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shaver had to hand out a lengthy list of long-neglected Commissioner action items at the September 24, 2018 meeting.

In January, Vice Mayor Todd Neville wanted to fire Regan, but did not get a second to his motion.  The evaluation meeting was held outside the ordinary course of business in a small conference room and was not televised.  Pity.

When JOHN REGAN is next evaluated this fall, it needs to be televised, live, and with FULL public comment. 

• No more sneakiness. 
• No more flummery, dupery and nincompoopery.
• No more waste, fraud and abuse.
• No more misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance.
• No more avoidance and evasion.

Like a dysfunctional family, the City of St. Augustine seems incapable of discussing real problems in a realistic way. 

Putting the cart before the horse, REGAN had an item on the agenda September 24, 2018 (10A) that was premature and not ready for primetime.  

There was a thinly-researched, half-baked, insincere presentation on options for grants for parks, occasioned by Commissioner Nancy Sikes- Kline's interest at a meeting in July.

At the moment, Fish Island Development, LLC  still has a contract with D.R. Horton, Inc. for the iconic historic Fish Island property.  We don 't want to commit tortious interference with contractual relations. 

But we do want to declare Fish Island an adaptation area and an archaeological preservation zone under state and city law. 

No response yet from REGAN to our conversation and my statement last night to Commissioners. 

Wonder if anyone even bothered to write it down?