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I received an email today regarding an alleged issue with a handicap citizen and her son.  This woman is a severe diabetic and has recently had one leg amputated and a wound that won’t heal.  Her 12-year-old son signed up to play football.  The boy has a cousin that is playing also and she went to City Manager Bob Brown and explained her situation and only asked for his assistance to see if her son and the cousin could be on the same team due to transportation issues.  See, they live next door to each other and they could ride together because she can’t drive.  That is all she wanted.  She was not asking for money or for the city to provide transportation, nothing like that, she just asked if that could happen considering her severe health issues.

The State Legislature amended Florida Statute 1006.7 with Senate Bill 228 to include a Standard of Dress for K-12 Students or a Dress Code.  How do you feel about it?  Do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing and why?

Taking nothing away from Mr. Boggs, because I can’t blame him for taking the opportunity to go home, but when is this County going to stop spending the money they spend searching for people outside the community to fill positions.  They overlook local candidates and pay the people salaries for a year or two, only to have them leave for greener pastures.  You will find very few people who want to live here if they were not born here or nearby.  I read in the paper that Mr. Dyal was going to look local and that there are several good candidates.  I hope he lives up to that and hires someone who will have longevity, character, can get the job done and can be role model to these young kids.

This Tuesday after the regular commission meeting the commission will go into a non-public executive session to discuss the union contract for county employees.  As you well know throughout the entire country the taxpayers have been saddled with the long reaching effects of union contracts and this issue is in the news countrywide practically everyday.  The question is should these union agreements be subject to public scrutiny before local government agrees to contract terms or should agreements continue behind closed doors and the taxpayers are forever burdened with not only the costs but also benefits that the private sector never enjoys.  As we have no commissioners with true business experience in employee benefits are they qualified to make long reaching binding decisions.

Well, after reading the paper the last few weeks, it seems like the County is beginning to listen to its citizens and step up some.  FINALLY, the TCDA/County is starting to take some actual steps to at least try and bring some jobs to the area.  Seems like the TCDA has swallowed some pride and joined in with some surrounding counties to do this.  There is nothing wrong with saying you can’t do it yourself and be a part of a collabarative effort to get a job done.  There are a few other things they seem to be trying to do and if you care to comment on them please do.  I will have to give the County a positive mark for a change.

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