E-Mail to City of St. Augustine's Defense Lawyer on Illegal Dumping re: City's Environmental Racism and Dumping Public Questions for 20 Monnths

Environmental Racism by the City of St. Augustine, Florida -- Lincolnville and West Augustine Communities as Dumping Grounds

E-mail to William L. Pence, Esquire with Akerman Senterfitt in Orlando, Florida

Dear Mr. Pence:
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that St. Augustine was the "most lawless" city in America.
Exactly what has changed? Institutional racism thrives and is now enshrined in a Consent Order on illegal dumping -- one you pushed for 20 months because the City refuses to dispose of solid waste in a Class I landfill, insisting on shipping it back to Linconville.
At the suggestion of John Regan, P.E. from the City of St. Augustine (and more recently Gregory J. Strong, Regional Director of FDEP), I have been attempting to reach you for 20 months. I first tried to reach you on or about February 27, 2006 regarding environmental crimes by the City fo St. Augustine. I reached you at FDEP before one of your meetings there, but you hung up the telehone without speaking.
If you had ever spoken with me, you might have learned something, e.g., information that might have prevented your proposing sending the solid waste from the Old City Reservoir into the Lincolnville community.
Adopted in secrecy and hostility -- rubberstamped outside the ordinary course of business, with the public denied the right to speak -- your Consent Decree is an embarassment to oru Nation's Oldest City. It is frankly an embarassment to Akerman Senterfitt and all of its lawyers.
Since you or someone in your firm apparently did a Yahoo! search on me this morning, perhaps you're ready to have a conversation after 20 months.
It's time for the City of St. Augustine to answer questions in public -- after 20 months of your billing our City for defense of the indefensible -- a pattern of deplorable environmental racism that has adversely affected two (2) Environmental Justice communities.
Kindly advise the City that the Consent Order is a non-starter and that we expect the City to comply with the March 15, 2006 order to remove all of the contaminants from the Old City Reservoir and place them in a Class I landfill.
I have taken the liberty of calling your ill-advised, controversial Consent Order to the attention of Judge Joseph Hatchett of your firm. May I suggest that you and Judge Hatchett (chair of the Akerman Senterfitt Diversity Committee and Appellate Practice) attend the January 10, 2008 meeting?
I hope that Judge Hatchett and you might both attend the meeting with FDEP in Lincolnville on January 10, 2008 at St. Paul's A.M.E. Church, 85 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., St. Augustine, Florida, at 6 PM.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you and Happy New Year.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-471-7023
904-471-9918 (fax)