DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Walton County Commissioner William "Boots" McCormick will ask his commission colleagues Tuesday to consider a resolution on former president Donald Trump's extension of a federal moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to the year 2032.
McCormick has placed the issue on the agenda for the commission's meeting, set for 9 a.m. at the courthouse annex on Coastal Centre Boulevard off U.S. Highway 331 in Santa Rosa Beach. The meeting also will be available for public participation online via the Zoom teleconferencing tool at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89735026838.
Information attached to McCormick's request, posted on the county government's website at https://rb.gy/lxino6, includes a resolution apparently previously submitted by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who represents Northwest Florida in Congress.