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/ Santa Rosa County Administrator Dan Schebler will be given a letter of reprimand for the county’s failure to apply for state money for road projects. The board’s unanimous decision, during a seven-hour meeting Tuesday night in Milton, doesn’t put the matter to rest. District 3 Commissioner James Calkins said he would look into having an independent “third party” investigate what went wrong. At issue was the county missing a March deadline to apply to be considered for money from the state’s Small County Outreach Program (SCOP). Schebler took responsibility for the missed deadlin...

Credit Pensacola News Journal The board’s unanimous decision, during a seven-hour meeting Tuesday night in Milton, doesn’t put the matter to rest. District 3 Commissioner James Calkins said he would look into having an independent “third party” investigate what went wrong. At issue was the county missing a March deadline to apply to be considered for money from the state’s Small County Outreach Program (SCOP). Schebler took responsibility for the missed deadline. A majority of commissioners said the lapse was not worth firing Schebler, who has been with the county since 2017. A crow...

View Comments Santa Rosa County Administrator Dan Schebler did not resign and was not fired at Tuesday night's County Commission meeting, following a long night of debate in which several residents called for his termination after one of his employees missed a funding deadline back in March. Schebler will instead receive a formal letter of reprimand in his personnel file, but the majority of the board didn't have an appetite for more severe disciplinary action. James Calkins was the lone commissioner who supported removing Schebler from his office, and he found support for his position ...

In the meantime, drivers trying to skirt the congestion on U.S. 98 have been driving through the Tiger Point area, often "at a high rate of speed and driving aggressively in the residential neighborhoods," according to Wright. The measure approved at Tuesday's County Commission meeting allots $10,500 to hire off-duty Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office deputies to patrol Tiger Point at peak traffic times. The deputies will conduct traffic patrols on weekday mornings between 6 and 10 a.m., weekday afternoons between 2 and 7 p.m. and Saturdays between noon and 8 p.m. from now until May 31. "Th...

After years of complaints from residents, Santa Rosa County officials are proposing to toughen laws against those who harm the county's environment. People who commit serious first-time environmental violations in Santa Rosa County could see their fines increase from $300 to $3,000, and subsequent violations jump from $600 to $10,000, as part of an effort by County Commissioners to crack down on environmental pollution caused by new developments. The fines are part of a proposed ordinance amendment that still has to be drafted and then go before a first reading, second reading and public h...