There's a Tourist Development Council meeting tomorrow at 1:30. Today, at 12:16 PM, I received an e-mail notice of it. There was nothing on the County Commission website calendar on t last week, which is why I wrote TDC about it on Friday. The response came 48 hours later, on Sunday.
The subject matters of the illegal meeting include evaluations of the St. Johns County Visitor and Convention Bureau, Inc., whose three-year, no-bid contract expired last fall.
Expired.
Yet TDC is still paying money to VCB -- $3.4 million per year, without rebidding the contract. Why?
Will TDC hold an illegal meeting to recommend a new no-bid conract for the Visitor and Convention Bureau?
Does TDC think it is cute to violate Sunshine laws in ebaluating the Visitor and Convention Bureau, which itself violates the Sunshine and Open Records laws, and Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution?
If the meeting is illegal, they will have to re-vote every single item at a future meeting.
I have called the County Attorney, Patrick McCormack, and will report this ourage to the State Attorney General's Office and Florida First Amendment Foundation.
Should I bother calling SHERIFF DAVID B. SHOAR or State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA, most noted for their coverup on the O'Connell shooting death case?
Stay tuned.
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