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St. Augustine news and notes – November 2, 2012
Nov 3rd
Clocks fall back on Sunday
Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday, November 4 at 2:00am, so remember to turn clocks back one hour before retirning on Saturday night, so you’re on-time on Sunday morning. Daylight Saving Time begins each year on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
Tuesday is Election Day – Early voting ends tomorrow
Early voting ends tomorrow, Saturday November 3. Polling locations will be open from 7:00am-7:00pm. For a list of locations, click here.
If you have not retuned your absentee ballot, you may wish to drop it off to ensure it is received by the Supervisor of Elections by Election Day. There are 11 locations across the county where ballots may be dropped off, including the city’s Financial Services Center. To see a complete list of locations, click here.
To get ready for Election Day, visit the Supervisor of Elections web site at www.sjcvotes.us for complete voting information, including sample ballots.
No trucks on Lemon St.
Effective immediately and continuing through the construction work on the US-1/Ponde de Leon Blvd. San Sebastian Bridge, trucks are prohibited on Lemon St. Earlier this week the city placed signs noting the prohibition on the western end of Lemon St. at its intersection with US-1/Ponde de Leon Blvd.
Commission sets alternative meeting date in November
December meeting schedule includes two workshops
The Veterans’ Day and Thanksgiving Holidays have necessitated the rescheduling of November’s only Commission meeting from the usual second and fourth Mondays to November 14. This will be the body’s only regular meeting in November.
In December, the Commission will meet on Monday, December 3 for its reorganizational meeting which will include the administering of the oath of office to Joe Boles and Leanna Freeman who were reelected to their offices, and the winner of the general election on November 6. The reorganizational meeting starts at 7:30pm.
December’s busy holiday season will result in the Commission having only one regular meeting which is set for December 10, but the commission has also scheduled two workshops that month. The first workshop, set to start at 4:00pm on December 10, concerns the future of the carpet golf facility located near the City Marina. The second workshop, set for Thursday, December 13 at 9:00am, the topic of discussion will be modifications to the city zoning code, starting with the use of Planned Unit Developments (PUD).
All of the meetings will be held in The Alcazar Room in City Hall, 75 King St. When available, agendas for the meetings will be posted on the city’s web site here.
North Davis Shores sanitary sewer inspections involves smoke
In this case, where there’s smoke…there’s I & I
One of the biggest challenges to operating an efficient sanitary sewer system is to ensure that all the water that needs treated gets treated, and water that does not need treatment doesn’t get it.
Seems simple, but when aging pipes allow rainwater or groundwater to enter the sewer system, a lot of water that does not need to be treated, gets treated; not an efficient use of resources.
The solution? Find the leaks and stop the leaks.
That’s the basis of current inspections of the sanity sewer systems in the North Davis Shores area with the goal of eliminating rainwater inflow and groundwater infiltration. Commonly referred to as “I & I,” the problem occurs when groundwater and/or rainwater enters the sanitary sewer system, travels through pump stations and ends up at the wastewater treatment plant necessitating its treatment just as if it were waste water.
One the the most efficient ways to find the sources of I & I is by distributing smoke into the system and then watch for the smoke. Where there’s smoke, there’s I & I.
To learn more about the inspections and upcoming tests. click here.
In just two weeks…Light-Up! Night
Nights of Lights’ 19th season begins on November 17
Have you seen your neighbors checking their holiday lights? Seem a little early? Not really when you consider that the 19th season of Nights of Lights is only a few weeks away.
Recognized as one of the Southeast’s major seasonal events, Nights of Lights has brought holiday excitement to the Nation’s Oldest City annually since 1994. The 10-week long event begins each year with a simple flip of a switch on the Saturday before Thanksgiving known as Light-Up! Night. To read about last year’s opening night, click here.
Don’t be “left in the dark” when the Nation’s Oldest City is transformed into an enchanted city of light. For guidelines to participate in the Nights of Lights by adding displays to property in the city’s historic districts, click here.
For visitor information including dining, shopping, lodging, attractions, and tours, during the ten weeks of Nights of Lights, visit www.nightsoflights.com.
The Break Room: City Clerk keeps City records, and much more
City Clerk Alison Ratkovic stops by The Break Room this week and discusses the work of the Clerk’s Office as well as explains the City Commission’s reorganization process held every two years following an election.
Each week the friendly and informative style of The Break Room offers the community an opportunity to know a little more about how their city works by getting to know those who do the work every day. The Break Room airs Wednesdays at 5:30pm and Saturdays at 8:00am, and each program is archived at www.breakroom.info as podcasts available for download anytime. To listen to this week’s program immediately, click here.
Discover First America! Program Adventure returns November 20
The Discover First America! Program Adventure returns starting on Tuesday, November 20 at 7:00pm. The free, five-part entertainment series, held at Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada Street, explores facets of St. Augustine’s rich history and culture. Each program will begin at 7:00pm with the doors opening at 6:00pm for seating, lobby displays, information and book signings. The Discover First America! Program Adventure is presented by the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration in partnership with Flagler College, Florida Power & Light Company.
The program schedule is:
– November 20, 2012: Mythbusters! Fact & Fiction in St. Augustine’s History
– December 5, 2012: Ancient City Musicale: 450 Years of Song & Dance
– January 9, 2013: Palace in Paradise: The Hotel Ponce de Leon Turns 125
– January 23, 2013: Juan Ponce de León Finds La Florida
– March 14, 2013: Revolt! Revolutionary War Trials & Tribulations in St. Augustine
St. Augustine 450th Commemoration passports will be given to all participants. Souvenir stampings in the passport will be provided at each program. The Discover First America! Program Adventure is sponsored by the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration, Flagler College, Florida Power & Light Company, St. Johns County Tourist Development Council, St. Augustine/Ponte Vedra on Florida’s Historic Coast, The St. Augustine Record, Augustine.com, SGS Art & Design, and City Gate Productions.
Additional details about the entire The Discover First America! Program Adventure at www.staugustine-450.com.
Got papers to shred? Let Advanced Disposal do it for you.
Advanced Disposal is sponsoring its second annual St. Johns County Shredding Event. St. Johns County residents and businesses are invited to safely destroy old personal documents that should not be carelessly thrown out with the trash. Note that there is a three-box limit per household or business.
Planned for Saturday, November 17 from 9:00am until 1:00pm at the Anastasia Square Shopping Center, corner of SR 312 and Hwy A1A. To see and print a flyer for your information or to share, click here. For more information on the shredding event, call Advanced Disposal at 904.827.1005.
Post-Thanksgiving FOG collection returns
Used fats, oils and grease to be collected on Monday, November 26
The City of St. Augustine and St. Johns County Utilities have joined together for the second year to collect used cooking oil and grease (FOG) following the Thanksgiving holiday.
The recycling collection is set for Monday, November 26, 7:30am–3:30pm at two recycling drop points:
25 W. Castillo Drive (Francis Field); and
840 West 16th Street on Anastasia Island.
This opportunity allows residents to properly dispose of large amounts of used cooking oil to be recycled into usable products such as biodiesel fuel. Participants are asked to allow used cooking grease to cool prior to delivering it in a safe container that will not melt or shatter. Also, to help in collecting oil in the future, each participant will receive a free funnel for future recycling efforts.
When cooking oil is improperly disposed of down the drain, it can clog sewer pipes and create environmental and public health hazards. Problems with sewer lines typically increase around the holidays when people are washing a lot of greasy and fatty foods down the drain. The fats, oils and greases build up inside sewer pipes and can cause raw sewage to back up and overflow into homes, businesses and the environment.
But it is not necessary to wait until Thanksgiving to recycle cooking ooil. There are six locations throughout the county that accepts used cooking oil year round. For a list of the locations and directions, click here.
For more information on the collection and other cooking oil recycling efforts, contact Glabra Skipp, City of St. Augustine at 904.209.4284 or Stacy Kowlsen, St. Johns County at 904.209.2662.
Veterans Day holiday closings for the City of St. Augustine
Offices for the City of St. Augustine will be closed on Monday, November 12 in observance of Veterans Day, but the solid waste pick-up schedule will remain unchanged.
Opportunity to serve: Code Enforcement, Adjustments & Appeals Board
The City Commission is accepting applications to fill vacancies on the Code Enforcement, Adjustments & Appeals Board. Interested individuals who reside within the city limits of the City of St. Augustine are invited to submit applications for this volunteer board. Applications are requested by Friday, November 30 with appointments tentatively scheduled for the City Commission meeting of Monday, December 10. For information concerning qualifications and applications please contact the City Clerk’s office at 825-1007. The application form is available on the city’s web site by clicking here.
Meeting Agendas
Planning & Zoning Board, Tuesday, November 6. Agenda is here.
Code Enforcement, Appeals & Adjustment Board, Tuesday, November 13. Agenda is here.
City Commission, Wednesday, November 14. Agenda will be available here.
Historic Architectural Review Board, Thursday, November 15. Agenda is here.
All agenda, minutes and GTV info
Agendas and minutes for all city meetings can be found at www.staugustinegovernment.com with a schedule of upcoming meetings listed under City Calendar. City Commission meetings are broadcast live via GTV (Comcast Channel 3 in St. Augustine) each second and fourth Monday at 5:00pm. Commission meetings are also recorded and rebroadcast as are Planning and Zoning Board and Historic Architectural Review Board meetings. For a current schedule of all programming on GTV, click here.
Source: City of St. Augustine
St. Augustine news highlights
Sep 14th
St. Augustine Mobility Institute offers community an avenue for input
Unique week-long workshop starts Monday, September 17
Unique week-long workshop starts Monday, September 17
Moving to and through St. Augustine, whether in a personal or commercial vehicle, is a challenge. The city’s compact historical district’s small, narrow streets draw millions each year, and when volume meets capacity, there can be gridlock.
In recent years there have been many studies by governmental and private entities evaluating the existing traffic systems and proposing ways to increase the ease of moving around St. Augustine. Some studies focused just on street use, others on pedestrians and bicycles, still others on light rail and shuttle services, but there has not been one with the complete, overall view that is likely to result from the St. Augustine Mobility Institute.
Running September 17- 21, the Institute is a week long intensive effort to learn about mobility challenges along the city’s three entrance corridors – King Street, San Marco Avenue, and Anastasia Boulevard – and by week’s end propose solutions based on input from a series of public workshops.
The Institute, a partnership between the City of St. Augustine and the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization,(NFTPO) will be managed by the engineering consultation firm of HNTB. It was City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline who, as a member of the NFTPO, became aware of the program and with the help of the city’s Planning and Building Department was able to secure an allocation of $125,000 to cover the cost of the study.
For complete details and a schedule of the corridor, neighborhood meetings, read St. Augustine Mobility Institute set for September 17-21 on the city’s web site.
Mobility Institute among topics on this week’s The Break Room
When Jenny Wolfe, the city’s Historic Preservation and Special Projects Planner stopped by The Break Room this week and took time to discuss with host Paul K. Williamson, her responsibilities as well as next week’s St. Augustine Mobility Institute.
Each week the friendly and informative style of The Break Room offers the community an opportunity to know a little more about how their city works by getting to know those who do the work every day. The Break Roomairs Wednesdays at 5:30pm and Saturdays at 8:00am, and each program is archived at www.breakroom.info as podcasts available for download anytime. To listen to this week’s program immediately, click here.
South Castillo Drive resurfacing set for Saturday night
Project scheduled for 10:00pm Saturday through 7:00am Sunday
The two northbound lanes of South Castillo Drive/SR A1A, will be closed one lane at a time for resurfacing operations starting at 10:00pm Saturday, September 15 and ending before 7:00am, Sunday, September 16. The limit of the paving operations will be from Cuna Street north to Orange Street.
During the work period the parking lot in front of Castillo de San Marcos will be closed. The signalized pedestrian crossings at Fort Alley and Cuna Street will also be closed. Pedestrians will be diverted north to the signalized crosswalk at West Castillo and south of Cuna Street to the two un-signalized crosswalks serving the bay front area. No horse carriages will be allowed in either direction on South Castillo Drive/SR A1A between Cuna Street and Orange Street.
For more information, call the Alan Rainer, Landmark Engineering, at 904.654.5919.
Next step in city’s budget process: Public Hearing # 2
The first of two public hearings on the 2012-2013 City of St. Augustine budget was held on Thursday, September 6. The second one is scheduled for next Thursday, September 20, starting at 5:05pm in The Alcazar Room at City Hall, 75 King St. The 2012-2013 budget goes into effect with the start of the fiscal year on October 1.
In preparation for the budget workshop held on August 16, staff prepared a workbook for commissioners with a budget summary of each of the funds on which the city relies for operations. To view the workbook, click here.
Additional budget information was made available to the Commission with a staff developed presentation. To see the presentation, click here.
More recycling will Make St. Augustine Cleaner & Greener
Watch for new additional recycle bin arriving week of September 24
If, as a resident of St. Augustine, you recycle, chances are you are not recycling as much material as you could. Most everyone is certain they can place newspapers, glass and cans in their recycling bin, but those are just a few of the items welcomed.
The city and its contractor, Advanced Disposal, are launching the Make St. Augustine Cleaner & Greenercampaign to encourage residents to recycle and thus increase the amount of recycled material collected. But, with increased recycling comes the need for increased capacity, so a second bin is being provided, free of charge, to every one of the city’s more than 4,600 customers. Bins currently used throughout the city are 18-gallon capacity, as will be the additional one. The new bins will be delivered the week of September 24-28.
For an up to date list of what is and what is not accepted for recycling, and a map illustrating the collection schedule, visit www.StAugRecycle.info, and watch for your additional recycle bin the last week of September.
September issue of 450th Commemoration newsletter a must read
Available free of charge, the e-newsletter is rich with news and links to resourses
The September issue of the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration newsletter is out and is a must read for anyone wanting to know anything about current activities, plans for future events, and how to be a part of all of it. Included in this issue are details on: the Spanish Wine & Food Festival coming to St. Augustine October 3-6, THE STORY of US Contest which is now in its final voting stages, the Viva Florida 500 Statewide Summit & Joint Meeting with St. Augustine 450th Commemoration, news about volunteers and much more.
To see the newsletter immediately, click here. For more information on the commemoration, visit its web site atwww.staugustine-450.com and then to be sure not to miss a single bit of news, have your name added as a subscriber by sending an email to jzuberer@citystaug.com.
Dredging of St. Augustine Inlet flood shoal underway
Sand to be relocated to beach in Anastasia Island State Park
Dredging has begun on a $2.3 million project in the St. Augustine Inlet that when completed will have removed approximately 162,000 cubic yards of beach quality sand from the flood shoal just north and south of the Vilano Bridge.
Set to be completed by November 1, the every four-to-five year project will remove sand to a depth of 12 feet and relocate it to the beach in Anastasia State Park via a submerged pipeline the length of Salt Run. The project, funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Inland Navigation District, was awarded to Southwind Construction Corps.
Installation of the 24-inch pipeline was completed last week and dredging started September 10 and will continue until October 15. Demobilization will take two weeks and the project will be completed by November 1.
The pipeline was placed as close to the eastern side of Salt Run as possible and includes two booster pump barges, one anchored at the north end of Salt Run, and the second barge located near the Lighthouse Park boat ramp. In order to complete the project within the aggressive schedule, the booster pumps aree allowed to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
For more information, contact the city’s General Services Department at 904.825.1010.
Interested in Florida’s 500th & St. Augustine’s 450th?
Then save the date: Monday, October 1
Two lead organizations working on two very significant upcoming commemorations will meet together in St. Augustine to advance the planning for both events.
Viva Florida 500 will hold a statewide summit in preparation for the 500th anniversary of the founding of Florida by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 jointly with the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration on October 1.
Secretary of State Ken Detzner, Department of State representatives, and representatives from the Governor’s Office are scheduled to attend. Also attending will be the Consul Generals of Spain, Britain and France and members of the 450th Commemoration Federal Commission, including Chairman Jay Kislak and Ambassador Andrew Young.
The program will feature a morning session with officials and dignitaries speaking, and an afternoon educational forum with speakers from Visit Florida, Florida universities, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection/Division of Recreation and Parks, and other organizations, all designed to assist organizations in the development and marketing of its 500th and 450th event.
The community is encouraged to attend this unique opportunity to be on the front seat of some very exciting planning and idea sharing. All sessions will be held at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium from 10:00am until 3:00pm with a break for lunch. or more information, call the 450th Commemoration office at 904.825.1053.
Opportunity to serve: Code Enforcement, Adjustments & Appeals Board
The City Commission is accepting applications to fill vacancies on the Code Enforcement, Adjustments & Appeals Board. Interested individuals who reside within the city limits of the City of St. Augustine are invited to submit applications for this volunteer board. Applications are requested by Friday, November 30 with appointments tentatively scheduled for the City Commission meeting of Monday, December 10. For information concerning qualifications and applications please contact the City Clerk’s office at 825-1007. The application form is available on the city’s web site by clicking here.
Not too early to Get Ready to Vote!
The one-stop site for every voter is www.votesjc.com
With the national political conventions over, many might wish they could vote this week, but while Election Day is not upon us, it’s close. That’s why St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes reminds voters that even though you can’t vote today, today is a good time to Get Ready to Vote!
More than just candidates
The November ballot will be long. There are 11 constitutional amendments, and for the first time the ballot will be a two-page, double-sided ballot. Information on the amendments is available by visiting the Supervisor of Elections website see and print the amendments for easy study. The Elections Office also suggests this site for even more amendment info.
Am I registered?
“Am I registered to vote? Is my voter information correct? Where do I vote?” Voters who are uncertain of the answers to any of these questions, should visit the Supervisor of Elections website and click on “Voter Lookup” to verify your record or call the Elections Office at 904.823.2238.
As a reminder – October 9th is the last day to register to vote for the General Election. Voter registration applications are available on the website. You must print out the application, sign and mail to the office. Applications must be postmarked by October 9th if you wish to vote in the General Election. You can also register to vote at any Driver’s License Office and any Public Library.
Lines at the Polls. Vote your 2 page ballot by mail
Since General Election ballots will be very long, some voters may find use of an absentee ballot preferable to going to the polls on Election Day. It’s important to note that absentee ballots ARE NOT forwardable, so the ballot will be returned to the Elections Office as undeliverable if your address on file is not current. All voted ballots must be received in the Supervisor of Elections Office no later than 7:00pm on Election Day. To request an absentee ballot, available to all registered voters, contact the Supervisor of Elections Office.
Agendas
Historic Architectural Review Board meets on September 20. The agenda is here.
City Commission meets on September 24. When available the agenda will be here.
Planning and Zoning Board meets on October 2. The agenda is available here.
Budget public hearings
The first of two budget public hearings was held on Thursday, September 6. The second one is scheduled forThursday, September 20 at 5:05pm. When available, the agenda will be here.
All agenda, minutes and GTV info
Agendas and minutes for all city meetings can be found at www.staugustinegovernment.com with a schedule of upcoming meetings listed under City Calendar. City Commission meetings are broadcast live via GTV (Comcast Channel 3 in St. Augustine) each second and fourth Monday at 5:00pm. Commission meetings are also recorded and rebroadcast as are Planning and Zoning Board and Historic Architectural Review Board meetings. For a current schedule of all programming on GTV, click here.
Source: City of St. Augustine
St. Augustine news highlights – August 31, 2012
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