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DeLand, FL - A number of adults and high school seniors made their feelings known on the issue of limited tickets for graduation at the Ocean Center at today's (March 16) Volusia County Council meeting.  The adults argued that they'd like to s...
Volusia County will pause enforcement of short-term rental bans in parts of the county after weeks of lobbying from homeowners in Bethune Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea. Volusia County councilmembers unanimously voted Tuesday for a "temporary suspension on the processing of new complaints" related to short-term rental operation in unincorporated parts of the county zoned for residential use. The item was not on Tuesday's agenda, but after a number of homeowners urgently addressed the council at the end of the meeting, County Chair Jeff Brower called for a vote. He said he didn’t want to wait...
DELAND — Nearly three years after Volusia County's medical examiner resigned in protest over working conditions in the overcrowded and understaffed morgue, the county has chosen the site for a new facility double the size. The Volusia County Council voted unanimously Jan. 2 to put a new morgue on a 2.7-acre site along Tiger Bay Road west of the Emergency Operations Center and authorized spending $993,000 to design the facility. That contract was awarded to Orlando architecture firm SchenkelShultz. Chief Medical Examiner James Fulcher, hired in 2019, said the operational problems raised...
Training by the company Tidal Basin, emergency management consultants, is set to begin Wednesday for county staff. "They will be on site tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.," Pozzo said. "After that we will receive our tablets." Names on Sharecare's list will not be pulled for vaccination events before the third week in February, according to Pozzo, but after that a more streamlined distribution system should take shape. "They're trying to get into a cadence," he said. The state-run Florida Department of Health in Volusia County works with the county to coordinate distribution of vaccines allocated...
Jan 7, 2021 1:06 PM DeLand, FL - Today's (January 7) Volusia County Council agenda began with the swearing-in of newly-elected, Jeff Brower and Danny Robins, and re-elected, Billie Wheeler and Heather Post Council members. Newly-elected Chair Jeff Brower said it's an important moment for all of us. He said that these are tumultuous times. There's fear. There's suspicion. There's downright hatred for each other. But there's also opportunity. "I want to just offer a few remarks, as a plea, to each one of you, because you truly are the government. We are your servants. The purpose of gov...