Sunday, April 06, 2025

LEARNING ABOUT ENGLAND, THIMS & MILLER



Update April 6, 2025:  Thanks to St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, which has provided an Excel spreadsheet of 21st century County funds disbursed to ENGLAND, THIMS & MILLER.  From this day forward, anytime ETM, cofounder DOUG MILLER, or anyone else from ETM testifies on a development application, we need to question ETM  about the lax failure to ask questions about organizational conflicts of interest.  We need a County ethics ordinance on disclosing and preventing organizational conflicts of interest.  Taking "advice" from ETM, which also receives Couny funds?  Doing engineering work for SJC and for clear-cutting, tree-killing organizations? Taking campaign contributions from the likes of ETM, or conflicted county lobbyist and political fundraiser THOMAS MARTIN FIORENTINO?  We, the People will question you.   As abolitionist Wendell Phillips said, "[we] will be heard.? What do you reckon? 

NG ALL ABOUT ENGLAND THIMS & MILLER.  38 year old Jacksonville corporation. 

ETM works for both St. Johns County and for landowners and applicants for zoning and planning favors. 

ETM is a contributor to political campaigns.

ETM is a frequent recipient of County funds.  

I've asked for a complete spreadsheett, 1977-date:

It's our money.


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: Betty Dixon <bdixon@sjcfl.us>; Commissioner Krista Joseph <bcc4kjoseph@sjcfl.us>; Joy Andrews <jqandrews@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 09:44:18 AM EST
Subject: England, Thims & Miller, Inc. receipt of St. Johns County funds, 1977-2025

Dear Ms. Dixon, SJC Commission Chair Joseph, County Administrator Andrewes, et al::
Would you please be so kind as to send me ASAP the spreadsheet of all SJC monies or other things of value ever paid to ENGLAND, THIMS & MILLER, INC. since September 27, 1977?  
Were any SJC funds ever paid to ETM subsidiaries, its LLCs or others acting in concert with them? If so, please include them, too. 
Thank you.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing wrong with a little palm grease. The work has to get done anyway. Why not spread the wealth? Who wouldn't take ten grand and buy people in charge? I don't even understand the point of this article.

Pete said...

Step 1: Make paranoid insinuations
Step 2: Obtain contributions list
Step 3: Publish it
Step 4: Change the subject

Anonymous said...

Ed, it seems a certain developer attorney is making his identity more and more obvious... an attorney who has an awful lot of time on his hands.

Pete said...

I hope you aren't talking about me because I'm not an attorney. Can pink elephants fly just because you say so? How much actual proof and evidence do you have that people here are attorneys? Do your assumptions lead people to believe that you might be consuming alcohol?