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City of Flagler Beach Town Hall Meeting
It’s happening again… another round of interviews with prospective alternative solutions providers. This time, SEVEN companies have been invited to present their solutions.
However, this time there is a difference: each of the presenting companies are asked to answer SPECIFIC questions during their presentations. They will each have 20 minutes, and then a general question & answer session will follow.
ONCE AGAIN, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU BE THERE! This will undoubtedly be the last chance for Undercurrent Stabilizers to be put forward as THE erosion solution for Flagler Beach. We need to support the presentation.
WHEN: November 15, 5:30 PM
WHERE: This public Town Hall meeting will be held at the Disabled American Veterans Building at 208 S. 6th St.
PLEASE PLAN ON BEING THERE. WE WILL EMAIL A REMINDER TO SUBSCRIBERS ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE THE MEETING, AND AGAIN A DAY OR TWO BEFORE.
Election of City Commissioner & Mayor
The City of Flagler Beach will be holding elections for commissioners soon. Commissioner John Feind and Mayor Alice Baker are up for re-election. We need to field candidates for these positions so that some new brooms can start sweeping out the layers of dust that have accumulated! If you or someone you know is interested in running, please let us know. But you’ll have to hurry… registration is now open. Please, somebody step up!
WHEN: You need to be aware of several dates, and two methods of registration:
- To register by petition, you need to pick up the appropriate forms from City Hall. You will need 37 valid petition signatures (1% of registered voters) and the fee of $73.21 (1% off the annual salary). Your application must be received by noon on November 4.
- …or just register by paying the full fee of $439.21 without petition signatures. This can be done any time between November 14 and November 18.
WHERE: County Government Services Building, Bunnell (the one with the domed roof)
To be eligible for election,
- Each candidate for office shall be a registered voter of the City, and
- Each candidate for office shall have resided within the corporate limits of the City for one (1) year prior to date of qualification (proof of residency requried).
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There are many stories out there similar to Capt. Rob’s. In my 50 years plus I’ve seen a lot of change and most of it not for the good. The young man with the Corp. has no clue as to what is happening.
I am a home owner and resident of Flagler Beach., formerly from Jacksonville. I own Toes In The Sand Beach Footwear at N 9th and A1A.
My first memories of the beach are from about 1951 when I was 4 years old. My grandparents ran a concession stand and gift shop at LittleTalbot Island State Park on the north end of Duval County. It was virgin territory and can remember riding in a Willys 4×4 as Mr. Ryan went around the huge dunes and caught huge rattlesnakes and sold them to Ross Allen at Silver Springs who would in turn milk them for their venom for a snakebite serum. I was on the dunes and beach almost every day.
Occasionally my grandmother would load my cousins and myself into her old ‘49 Plymouth and come to Flagler Beach. There was an abundance of motels with kitchenettes where we could cook our catches from the pier. Somewhere in those early years I knew that someday I would live in Flagler Beach.
Later, as a teenager I became passionately involved in surfing. The beaches in Jacksonville were wide, bright and alive. There were dunes galore with sand drifts across A1A. These drifts were commonplace all the way down from Fernandina Beach to Flagler Beach.
For many years on weekends we would regularly travel south to surf and fish Vilano, St. Augustine, Matanzas and Flagler Beach. At that time there was a surf club in Flagler beach called the “Sunrise Surfers”. I made a few friends and started coming down here regularly. In the early 70’s my parents bought a house on N. Flagler Avenue (where I reside today)..
The reason for this short synopsis of my life is due to what a member of The Army Corpse of Engineers said at last nights town meeting..
The issue was dredging and “renourishing” the beaches. He is a young man who apparently believes that there is no harm in dredging the inlets and offshore. To paraphrase it, he said that he goes surfing in Jacksonville and he walks across a sand dune. Although he didn’t expand on the subject, it stuck in my craw that if this man keeps this attitude and they keep dredging, when he gets to be my age, his sand dune will be gone and all he will have is a memory of what it is like now.
From the 1970’s when offshore dredging was first started in Jacksonville, the beauty of the beaches, the quality of the beaches and the overall health of the beaches have deteriorated immensely. You don’t need a degree in hydrology, topology, or any other “ology” to see this.
Please, lets find a different solution quickly and all rally around and give it our total support before it’s too late. Thank you,
Capt.Rob
You are so right, Capt Rob.
It is sad to witness just how far these people have their heads stuck in the sand. For goodness’ sake just give Holmberg a try! The cost is a grain of sand compared to what has already, and what will eventually be spent.
I have visited Flagler Beach. It is a wonderful place. It is hard to imagine Flagler Beach without its beach!
As a biologist, and environmentalist, I can’t help; but, wonder, that spending the two and a half million dollars to let Dick Holmberg Technologies do one mile of the beach, wouldn’t be be a worthwhile investment? When looking at the monies that are being spent for feasibility studies ; and by the ACoE, it seems cheap. If this does not work, can the stabilizers be removed? If it DOES work, think of the possibilities for the rest of Florida’s beaches; and, the “feather” it would be, in Flagler Beaches’ cap, to have shown a wonderful solution to this environmental and economical problem!
Thank God for people like you. I have been writing officials for years about a related issue: the litter, especially plastic and cigarettes, on the sand; sometimes it’s like stepping into a giant ashtray
Hi Michael,
Right On! Thanks so much for your supportive comments! You bring up another important issue that needs to be addressed in a public way. While it’s my personal opinion that it’s highly unlikely that the city can afford to add to the payroll for a trash patrol, each of us is responsible to bring into focus such anti social, unhealthy behavior. . . littering by humans and pets is absolutely unacceptable.
What our county, state and federal governments can and should act on though is a permanent solution to our eroding shorelines. This is not something that can be solved by individuals alone. BUT, we citizens can influence how those decisions are made. WE are the govenment! There is no need to fight “city hall”. . . we who act for the common good are “city hall”. Come join us and make your voice heard! Hoping to see you on Thursday night!