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Reggie Bellamy will serve a one-year term overseeing Port Manatee expenditures. By Staff 12/17/2020 at 10:50am Reggie Bellamy. Manatee County Commissioner Reggie Bellamy was recently elected chairman of the Manatee County Port Authority, which oversees expenditures at Port Manatee. Bellamy has been first vice chairman since January, and will serve one year as chairman. Seven members serve on the board, including first vice chairwoman Misty Servia, second vice chairman James Satcher and third vice chairwoman Carol Whitmore. Port Manatee is the closest U.S. deepwater seaport to the Pan...

District 5 Commissioner Vanessa Baugh was elected by her fellow commissioners Tuesday to be the 2021 Chairman of the Board of Country Commissioners. "I want to thank everyone who voted for me," Baugh said in a Manatee County press release. "I want us to move forward, I want us to get along and be respectful to each other. The main thing is, we need to get on the same page, work for the taxpayer, move in a friendly direction, get things done, and make sure we don't raise taxes on the taxpayer." At-large Commissioner George Kruse, who joined the Commission in November, will serve as first v...

Although Manatee County Commissioners have changed course and will not vote to terminate the contract of Administrator Cheri Coryea, at least one commissioner said her fellow commissioners should be open to change. “The citizens need to understand that the staff basically runs the county,” District 5 Commissioner Vanessa Baugh said. “If you look back at last year and years before, you will see that almost every time staff brings forth an agenda item, it passes. You can always kind of get the sense of where the votes are coming from. So for me, that is something that I think we need to ...

Bellamy elected to one-year term as Manatee County Port Authority chairman Manatee County Commissioner Reggie Bellamy has been selected to a one-year term as chairman of the Manatee County Port Authority. (Source: Port Manatee) By Jessika Ward | December 16, 2020 at 2:56 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 2:56 PM PALMETTO, Fla. (WWSB) - Port Manatee announced Tuesday, Dec. 16 that Manatee County Commissioner Reggie Bellamy was chosen to serve a one-year term as chairman of the Manatee County Port Authority, the governing board of Port Manatee, on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Bellamy is a Manatee Cou...

“We have a leaker,” Van Ostenbridge wrote. “Good thing no one reads this rag.”  Beruff replied a few hours later: “Who cares liberal rag.”  Four days later, on Nov. 19 – the day Van Ostenbridge would tell Coryea in her office that she needed to resign or be fired – Beruff sent a text to Van Ostenbridge at 6:51 a.m.  “Good morning you all set?”  Van Ostenbridge sent two replies: “all set,” and “Meeting with Cheri at 7:30.”  Background  The subject of Coryea’s termination first came up publicly on Nov. 19, with Van Ostenbridge along with commissioners James ...