-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: public.services
Sent: Sun, Oct 16, 2016 11:13 pm
Subject: Request No. 2016-420: NPDES & Section 404 permits for ocean pollution by GRACIE HOLDING LLC, BEACH DEVELOPMENT LLC, LaFiesta, 810 AIA Beach Blvd
Good evening:
1. Please send copies of any NPDES, Section 404 or other environmental permits applied for or obtained by, or notifications made by or on behalf of:| GRACIE HOLDING LLC, |
| BEACH DEVELOPMENT LLC, |
C. into local sewers or storm sewers.
2. Please send me any legal research, federal police or sheriff or local prosecutor investigations, reports, correspondence, photo or video surveillance or documentation concerning:
2. Please send me any legal research, federal police or sheriff or local prosecutor investigations, reports, correspondence, photo or video surveillance or documentation concerning:
A. the nature, extent, effects, chemical and biological composition, and resolution of the alleged pollution; and
B. citizen protected activity in reporting the alleged pollution to SABPD, et al.
C. SABPD referrals to FDEP, EPA, the State's Attorney, Sheriff, or any environmental crimes unit.
3. Please be sure to include any communications with, investigations of, or interactions with local government watchdog Thomas F. "Tom" Reynolds, Jr. in response to Mr. Reynolds' protected activity under the First and Ninth Amendments and environmental law, to make reports of alleged pollution, whether by SAPD, county, city, security, legal or other personnel.
4. Please respond to me by Noon on October 17, 2016.
5. Mayor O'Brien and St. Augustine Beach Commissioners:
A. Please place Mr. Reynolds' specific beach and ocean pollution concerns on the St. Augustine Beach City Commission meeting agenda on October 17, 2016 at 6 PM.
B. Please place the public's reasonable expectations of probity, and maladroit SAB and SABPD responses to citizen and employee protected activity on pollution concerns on a future Commission agenda. SAB is a customer service organization and must act like one.
C. You will kindly recall that circa 2011, St. Augustine Beach Commission voted to reject my modest proposal for a whistleblower policy, patterned after the one unanimously adopted by Anastasia Mosquito Control Commission of St. Johns County.
D. Never again should our citizens perceive they are being discouraged, intimidated or given inaccurate, misleading, discouraging, false or intimidating misinformation in response to pollution concerns, which must be acted upon without fear or favor of influential persons.
E. Please make the overhead projector available during the October 17, 2016 6 PM meeting so that Mr. Tom Reynolds, et al may share color photographs of the alleged pollution in quo, and to question Chief Robert Hardwick, Commander James Parker and Mayor Richard O'Brien about the events of October 8-16, 2016 at the 810 A1A Beach Blvd property.
F. Please direct the City's Information Technology staff to make certain that all available photos and videotapes will be viewable in the meeting room and to viewers of the meeting on cable television and internet streaming video during the meeting.
G. Please cease and desist from any perceived efforts by SAB, SABPD, et al. to chill, coerce, intimidate or retaliate against Mr. Reynolds' protected activity in reporting alleged ocean pollution by the Mayor of St. Augustine Beach, Florida, Mr. Richard O''Brien, his wife and their corporations.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
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