Disinvestment in History and Destruction of Nature Proves That St. Augustine City Government Is NOT Run By Good-Ole-Boys

Disinvestment in History and Destruction of Nature Proves That St. Augustine City Government Is NOT Run By Good-Ole-Boys

Never again should anyone say that the City of St. Augustine is run by "good-ole-boys." That statement is a slap at "good ole boys" everywhere, an insult.

"Good-ole-boys" treasure our Florida history and nature and outdoor activities (hunting, fishing, boating).

City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS & Co. let historic buildings crumble.

Cost to repair them is $22 million -- triple the cost our State of Florida was told in giving them to the University of Florida. Was our legislature misinformed that badly -- by a factor of three? What's going on here?

Our City of St. Augustine is a badly-run political machine with a $51 annual budget for a town of some $13,000.

It wans't good-ole-boys who took the entire contents of an old city dump and put it into the Old City Reservoir -- good-ole boys don't pollute bass-fishing spots because they love to fish.

One must conclude that St. Augustine City Government is not run by good-ole-boys because they let our history crumble through disinvestment (see below) and put the contents of the old city dump into the Old City Reservoir.

So let's stop calling WILLIAM B. HARRISS and his hand-picked city staff and Commissioners "good ole boys."

Terms like "wastrels," "villains," '"Vandals," "Visigoths," "Philistines," "sycophants," "toadies," "incompetents," "miscreants," "fraudfeasors" and worse come to mind

City of St. Augustiine City Manager-for--life WILLIAM B. HARRISS's wrecking-crew approach to city government might lead to a county takeover, as the county is proposing to do to the Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County (AMCD).