St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK Met With Developer About Possible Sale or Transfer of County Land at St. Augustine Beach Pier Park

St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK admitted earlier today that he had met with KEY INTERNATIONAL hotel developers about possible sale or trade of county land at the St. Augustine Beach Pier Park.
In the words of Woodie Guthrie, "This land is your land. This land is my land."
What was County Administrator WANCHICK thinking?
Mr. WANCHICK told St. Augustine Beach and St. Johns County Commissioners about the discusison during a joint meeting fo the two boards, the first ever to take place.
WANCHICK did so without first asking for permission from Commissioners.
Why?
WANCHICK is overly solicitous of developers.
So is every other elected official in the St. Johns County Administration complex.
So are our county-wide constitutional officers.
Every single one.
County Administrator WANCHICK said the land at Pier Park is "not irreplaceable."
Huh?
This man has two Masters' Degrees and he doesn't have the sense to treat park land and residents with respect.
No park land should be sold, traded or given away without a vote of the people of St. Johns County.
St. Augustine Beach City Commissioners will soon vote on recommendations from the decennial St. Augustine Beach City Charter Review Committee, one of which will require pblic ihvovement beoe any city park land is sold ot traded.
A similar restriction on giveaways, trades or sales of public land should be considered as part of any St. Johns County Charter.
St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL WANCHICK has a golden parahute arrangement, whereby he will be paid approxiately half a million dollars if he is terminated for anything other than very good cause.
Today's joint SAB-county meeting was in a conference room at the St. Augustine Airport (renamed the Northeast Florida Regional Airport without action by the state legislature). The meeting was held away from cable TV and streaming internet video coverage that would have been provided had the meeting been held at either the St. Augustine Beach City Hall or the County Administration Building (a/k/a "Taj Mahal"). The St. Johns County Administration's pretext for the meeting location was that the airport location was on "neutral ground." Do you believe that?
I suggested last fall that St. Augustine Beach Commissioners schedule a meeting with the County. They followed my suggestion.

POSTSCRIPT: Scan the list of meetings in the Taj Mahal. How many are not in the Commissioners' meeting room, and hence not available on their vaunted GTV and streaming video.
Why?