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NOTICE OF HEARING The District School Board of Lafayette County will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. in the School Board Administration Building, 363 NE Crawford Street, Mayo, Florida 32066 for the purpose of amending School Board Policies. (The School Board approved for advertisement of a Public Hearing at their regular meeting on April 20, 2021). Authority for amending and adopting policies and forms is found in Article IX, Section 4(b), Constitution of the State of Florida and in Florida Statutes 1001.41. The following policy will be considered for revision/upda...

5:30 p.m., Order # 3  Authorizing Temporary Street Closure – Oak Street Flanagan Community Center Workshop 7 p.m., Executive Session pursuant to 1 M.R.S. §405(6)(E) for discussion of pending litigation.  The PB discovered they were defendants and would be found in contempt of court if they did not approve the cell tower application. What was highlighted at the PB meeting by Chair Laustsen and members was a list of what they perceived are inaccuracies in the written settlement agreement.  The PB voiced that Council, City Manager and attorneys must not have read the PB response of denial...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 With the Senate set to flip to Democratic control in the 117th Congress, albeit by a razor thin margin, the policy priorities for the upper chamber are likely to significantly change.  In so doing, the various Senate committees will have new chairs, and their agendas will likely vary at least in part on the partisan make-up of the committees. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has a long tradition of bipartisan cooperation.  Executive Sessions are usually not contentious; the final language of bills and amendments are usually th...

Admitting its failure to comply with the state’s Opening Meetings Law, the Pitkin County government settled a lawsuit where its commissioners were accused of doing public business in private. The agreement was reached in December. It came after Pagosa Springs attorney Matt Roane filed a court complaint in late October saying the county failed to broadcast the Board of County Commissioners adopting a motion Oct. 20. That day, commissioners held a public work session that started at 1 p.m. and was streamed on the county’s website and Grassroots TV. Ahead of the work session, the BOCC had be...

Other American philanthropy is the envy of the world. Since colonial times, when Benjamin Franklin’s Junto Society, a proto–think tank of public-minded Philadelphia citizens, developed volunteer fire departments and a lending library, Americans have evolved a unique civic culture of giving and entrepreneurial problem solving. From 1995 to 2002, charitable donations as a percentage of GDP were nearly six times higher in the United States than in France and 14 times higher than in Germany. In 2007, America’s charitable giving amounted to $306 billion. No wonder that European universities ...