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City Government Week in the City of St. Augustine
Oct 21st
Members of the St. Augustine City Commission and the city’s fire chief will be visiting area schools next week as part of Florida City Government Week, October 21-27. Participating schools will use one day during the week to host a participating official who will lead Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the school day.
Mayor Joe Boles, Vice Mayor Leanna Freeman, Commissioners Errol Jones and Nancy Sikes-Kline, and Fire Chief Mike Arnold will visit R. B. Hunt, Ketterlinus, and Crookshank Elementary Schools, The Webster School, and Cathedral Parish School during the week.
City officials visiting area schools during Florida City Government Week has become a tradition in recent years. The visits provide an opportunity for city leaders and students to meet creating an opportunity to put a spotlight on the significant role local government has in everyday lives.
City Government Week is simply a time for the community to be mindful that municipal government is the level of government that has the most impact on its constituency’s quality of daily life, and to emphasize that municipal is the most accessible of all levels of government.
Florida City Government Week is a program sponsored by the Florida League of Cities. For more information visit www.floridaleagueofcities.com.
For more information on the City of St. Augustine’s participation, contact the City Clerk’s Office at 825.1007.
Source: City of St. Augustine
Vice President visit necessitates road closures
Oct 20th
affected on Saturday, October 20
Vice President Biden’s campaign stop in St. Augustine on Saturday, October 20 will necessitate some street closures in the vicinity of Ketterlinus Gym, 60 Orange St., site of the event. For more information call 904-209-0377.
The street closures, in effect 9:00am-3:00pm, are:
Riberia St. from Orange St. to W. Castillo Dr., and
Orange St. from Sevilla St. to Riberia St.
St. Augustine Police will manage traffic in the area and will assist property owners who need to access their property.
Doors open for the event at 11:00am. Access to the Historic Downtown Parking Facility will not be affected by the event.
For more information regarding the road closures, call the Public Affairs Department at 904.825.1004.
Source: City of St. Augustine
City receives recognition for innovative wastewater treatment process
Oct 16th
The process, involving the use of peracetic acid rather than chlorine to disinfect wastewater effluent, has been used in agricultural premises, food establishments and medical facilities since its approval by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1985, and yet only in some European countries is it widely used to treat wastewater. That is until the City of St. Augustine was initially permitted to launch a pilot program and then allowed to implement full scale use of the alternative method.
The primary benefit of using peracetic acid is its environmental benefits to aquatic life as it does not generate chlorinated disinfection byproducts. In short, the treated wastewater entering the waterways has a far less impact on the environment than wastewater treated with chlorine.
This innovative process has not gone unnoticed, but rather has garnered a lot of interest from the wastewater industry as evidenced by the invitations extended to city staff to share details of the program with their peers. Those invitations included two leading professional associations, the Florida Industrial Pretreatment Association and Water Environment Federation.
Martha Graham, Public Works Director, and George Lomax, Treatment Plants Manager, presented a paper on the comparison of peracetic acid with chlorine for the disinfection of wastewater effluent at the Water Environment Federation Technical Conference held in New Orleans earlier this month, an annual conference attended by over 17,000 water professionals from around the world. Then, just last week, Glabra Skipp, Environmental Compliance Inspector, presented the same paper at the Florida Industrial Pretreatment Association Conference, a statewide professional association of which Skipp is the northern regional coordinator.
For more information, contact the Public Works Department at 904.825.1040.
Source: City of St. Augustine