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3 months ago Share The city of Palm Coast's utility infrastructure must be moved, and Palm Coast does not want its ratepayers to bear the cost. A $10 million paving and re-paving project in the Marineland Acres area will proceed, even though it's not yet entirely clear how part of it — relocating the city of Palm Coast's utility lines, which supply the area's water — will be paid for. Under Florida law, a utility provider must move their infrastructure at their own expense when it conflicts with a transportation project. Palm Coast does not want to do that, making what...

Joe Mullins, left, next to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Mike Lutz, who spoke to a group of local residents heading to Washington to protest Congress’ certifying the election of Joe Biden. Mullins, who had someone in the group take a video of him and Lutz, was sponsoring the trip. Florida law is clear: an elected official at any level may not “Use his or her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or a nomination of office or coercing or influencing another person’s vote or affecting the result thereof.” On Monday, Flagler County Com...

Flagler County School Board adopts gender identity protections By : Jeremy Williams Share this story: ABOVE: Flagler County School Board during its Dec. 15 meeting. (Screenshot from FlaglerSchools.com) After a 13-month battle, LGBTQ activists in Flagler County are ending 2020 with a huge victory for transgender students. In a 3-2 vote, the Flagler County School Board added gender identity to the policy manual’s section 217, the district’s nondiscrimination policy, Dec. 15. The fight to update the district’s nondiscrimination policy began in the fall of 2019 when Elliott Bertrand, a tran...

Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker. (© FlaglerLive) Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker tonight may have been channeling Chief Justice John Roberts, whose votes have gradually shifted toward the center as colleagues on his right flank have edged further right: Tucker this evening, in an unexpected shift, switched votes to provide a 3-2 majority in favor of adding the words “gender identity” to the list of explicit protections in the school district’s anti-discrimination policy. And in fact Roberts had more than a little to do with it: Tucker switched afte...

Jay Glover, the county’s financial adviser, addressing the commission this evening. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube) The Flagler County Commission voted 5-0 this evening to approve a $20 million commercial loan with CenterState Bank to finance a 51,000-square-foot Sheriff’s Operations Center south of the Government Services Center in Bunnell. A public groundbreaking at the sheriff’s project, some two and a half years after the law enforcement agency vacated its former operations center off State Road 100 in Bunnell, is scheduled for Wednesday at 9 a.m. County commissioners had few question...