Saturday, October 25, 2025

CHECK OUT St. Johns County "Legislative Action Plan" -- October 21, 2025 County Commission Meeting Item 1 (Updated again)

Voltaire said that  the Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."  

Misguided St. Johns County Administrator JUNYAO ANDREWS has advanced a proposed a "legislative action plan" that is not legislative, does not involve action, and is not a plan.  

There was only  59 words in the backup material for St. Johns County Commission Agenda Item 1 at the October 21, 2025 St. Johns County Commission meeting.  

UPDATE: 10:13 AM, October 22, 2025 -- WATCH VIDEO -- County Administrator JUNYAO ANDREWS at 3:34, my comment at 402, interrupted by County Commissioner CLAY MURPHY, Vice Chair, mid-sentence. 

UPDATE, 8:50 AM Mere moments before the meeting started, staff handed out copies of a short putative "plan," lacking the name of an author.  

Read my e-mail, here:

Dear St. Johns County Commission Chair Joseph, Vice Chair Murphy, Commissioners Taylor, Whitehurst and staff:
1. Item 1 on our proposed SJC Board of County Commissioners Agenda for October 21, 2025, is our County's proposed Legislative Action Plan.  The plan is NOT on the website.  Why?  Please correct this error at once.  
2. Please add repeal of SB 180.
3. Please restore previously omitted items from prior years, including amending Florida's False Claims Act to protect cities, counties and special taxing distracts. 
4. Please add items to require lobbyist registration, whistleblower worker rights protection and free speech protection for all local governments. 
5. Please add support for our new St. Johns County Congressman Randal Fine's bill, H.R, 4656, providing a National Park Service study for more national parks in Florida including Florida Springs.  Please add support for a St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore. Thank you, Congressman Randy Fine! National Park Service Study Bill for Florida, H.R. 4656!   

6.  The backup to item 1 includes NO plan.  It merely states: "The 2026 Legislative Action Plan (LAP) identifies the County’s priority projects and initiatives for the upcoming legislative session. The plan (sic) serves as a framework for seeking financial resources and policy support from our State and Federal representatives. Once adopted by the Board, the

Legislative Action Plan is subsequently presented to the County’s Legislative Delegation, the public, and other public agencies for their consideration." 59 words.  That's all, folks!


7. As Admiral Hyman Rickover once asked a recent U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Jimmy Carter, "Why not the best?"  We expect better work.  It's our money. It's our County.  It's our democracy.  

Thank you.

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