TODD DAVID NEVILLE (HCN)
One of the countless drawbacks of our St. Augustine City Commission is having to listen to petty, pretentious parvenu ODD TODD NEVILLE (R-PROCTORVILLE), who wanted our Tallahassee lobbyists' permission last week before supporting a resolution on clean water standards.
ODD TODD NEVILLE, the prince of darkness, the wannabe-mayor of Proctorville, patronizing privileged pathetic scion of a union-buster, twin brother of a Silicon Valley multi-millionaire, has accomplished exactly what in life?
You tell me.
ODD TODD NEVILLE's annoying constant antics -- interrupting the ladies on the St. Augustine City Commission, and public comment speakers -- position him as a failed supercilious sexist misogynist social dominator, who failed to report his moving from homestead property to our Property Appraiser, resulting in a homestead fraud investigation.
Who is this lugubrious goober.
The bald-faced liar, unjust steward, and skin-headed skinny winner of the St. Augustine Young Professionals' all-white "Womanless Beauty Paegaent" is City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN's running dog, developer-driven chauvinistic DOW PUD (CORDOVA INN) supporter (they both attended DAVID BARTON CORNEAL's middle-of-the-night corruption celebration) -- NEVILLE is a dybbuk, a poseur who claims credit for saving the morbidly obese REGAN's life by persuading him to run marathons.
Color crude, rude colorless NEVILLE the City Manager's running dog, or vice versa.
Mendacious NEVILLE is a disgrace to the human race, who wanted to spend your tax money filing a bogus libel lawsuit against Michael Gold and Historic City News, and who opposed 450th audits.
Mean-spirited NEVILLE is a vile excuse for an elected official -- call him the CYA CPA -- who supports flubdubs but publicly opposes more money to work on our D+ streets in St. Augustine:
St. Augustine mayor seeks more paving funding; commissioner disagrees
Posted: September 21, 2016 - 10:55pm | Updated: September 21, 2016 - 11:39pm
By SHELDON GARDNER
sheldon.gardner@staugustine.com
St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shaver’s most recent call for increased paving dollars in the city budget — via a letter sent to and published in The Record earlier this week — has sparked support from some residents.
But one commissioner has a different view.
“It’s either misunderstanding of what our budget is or it’s just political stuff,” Commissioner Todd Neville said. “It’s one or the other.”
Shaver said the city’s more than $500,000 budget for paving falls short of the minimum needed to maintain city roads and avoid added expense from deferring maintenance. She pointed out the issue in her letter, which encouraged residents to take action.
Overall the city’s roads have about a “D” grade, meaning they’re considered in poor to fair condition and are “mostly below standard, with many elements approaching the end of their service life,” according to the city’s baseline assessment of infrastructure completed in 2015.
Shaver, who is up for re-election, said she expected some people to connect the letter with elections coming in November.
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” Shaver told The Record, adding the commission’s job is to provide oversight. “We’re charged with asking the hard questions [and understanding whether the budget is on track].”
More public feedback could come from Shaver’s message tonight. St. Augustine commissioners are expected to vote on the city budget at a hearing that starts at 5:05 p.m. at City Hall. The next fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
Shaver has previously pushed for more funding for paving, and at the first budget hearing, commissioners instead supported re-evaluating the paving budget in a few months.
The budget for fiscal year 2017 includes $525,000 from the general fund for what’s called “road rehabilitation.” That includes milling and resurfacing and various repair methods, according to the Capital Improvement Plan. That’s the same amount budgeted as the current year.
Shaver says because construction costs have gone up, the budget won’t pay for enough miles to do basic maintenance this year.
Shaver wrote in her letter that the budget “guarantees our streets will get worse.” She said it’s her understanding that the city would contract out the paving work so added paving work wouldn’t fall on staff.
Also, the city budgeted for paving from the general fund: $90,000 in 2012, $0 in 2013, $100,000 in 2014 and $650,000 for 2015, according to an email to Shaver from Meredith Breidenstein, city budget director. That doesn’t include Hypolita Street upgrades or utility or stormwater projects with associated road improvements, according to the email.
Neville said the city’s 2017 budget already, over the 2016 fiscal year, shifts funds from general government services and boosts transportation and infrastructure spending. He said the $525,000 only covers paving and there are separate projects — like water main work on San Marco Avenue — that will include road improvements.
“Our budget is solid,” he said.
He also said that part of the capital budget is rolling forward because some projects weren’t completed.
“It makes no sense to just pile on more money for these projects,” Neville said.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Horvath said she has been getting feedback from residents wanting to make sure enough money is in the budget to maintain the roads as they are.
She said she believes more money will eventually be allocated into the paving budget but she was still considering the issue in advance of today’s meeting.
“Obviously, we all want the same thing. We want our streets repaired,” Horvath said. “We don’t want them to get worse.”
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