As one of the 700 there are a lot of important issues on the ballot. Voters are quite concerned that our votes will not be counted especially considering that one of the sitting commissioners will be the canvasser and clearly we all do not have the same "ideology". How likely is it that our votes will not count? What exactly happens when they audit a race? Voters are concerned about the future of almost a million dollars in the inexperienced hands of (Satcher) someone with zero experience. We hope that you will be a guest on the Times podcast soon and give an inside view of the elections office.
I called the Govenors office this week objecting to him signing HB 87 into law. As I was fortunate to own a cabin on 7 acres in Ocala National Forest for 14 years, living there full time for 7 years, I was fortunate to learn quite a bit about black bears. They are beautiful animals that deserve to be left alone. It is not a bear problem, but a human problem. Bears sense of smell is 7 times greater than a dog's! If ANY garbage, food, barbeque smells or pet food are left out by humans, bears WILL come to investigate. There is ample natural food for bears in the forest, yet they will investigate those potential food smells. They will typically run from humans, though. I fear if this bill goes into effect, many bears will end up dead, or worse wounded, by idiots who want bragging rights to the kill. Ruth Lawler
What a phenominominal opportunity for anyone headed in that direction. WOW! I'm 70 and thinking about applying! By the way to CareerEdge, thank you for providing this opportunity to Manatee and Sarasota County
DeSantis vetoed $90 million from art programs. Quoting from the Herald Tribune: It is the first time that no money will be allocated for arts and culture programs by the state. Banning books, eliminating theater, closing artistic programs for kids, cutting classical music and opera...this is the Florida of the extreme right, where kids grow up to be just as close minded as their fox-news watching parents. Uninformed, non-critical thinking voters believe the garbage campaign mailers they get in the mail. Uninformed non-critical thinking voters are easily scared by conspiracy theory claims of indoctrination, and they fall for Orwellian descriptions such as when Bridget Ziegler, in the name of "protecting children," pushes policies that discriminate, bully, and harm LGBT students to the point of contemplating suicide. And when KVO votes to eliminate protection for priceless wetlands in the name of protection of property rights. DeSantis and the far right want a dumber, non-cultural, uninformed electorate because those are the voters that keep them in power, pre-empting local control from Tallahassee.
This is deserving of a lawsuit. SOE is way out of bounds on this decision
Sounds like Satcher is practicing law without a license.
He needs his ass handed to him in court before we give him the boot in November
Worst choice by DeSantis ever!
It’s a great idea long overdue. School District has been sitting on those 5 acres for 20 years. A school will never be built there. Collaboration with a great proven developer like One Stop is a home run. The district has many more properties that they should be doing this to. In addition any new school should have additional land set aside for workforce housing in that area and partner up with private development to achieve reasonable housing for it’s employees that otherwise could not afford to live in that area. So, lets truly live, work and play in our area.
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2024/06/14/manatee-county-school-district-looking-into-workforce-housing/?outputType=amp
Other than George Kruse, why would Manatee County government want to foster any coordinated communication with the public? The county has done everything within their power to reduce public knowledge by no longer holding presentations, by no longer offering information on who works there, the power structure, and by limiting public comment. When you turn off the ability of the public to comment on social media you vastly reduce the public's ability to tell those in charge how they really feel about the job the commissioners and county government and its staff are doing. Most written public comments submitted to the agenda, especially if citizens question anything, are buried inside hundreds of pages of revised documentation added to the agenda and not placed on the link where public comment should be placed. Of course, all those late items are added without background information and submitted after the window for public comment has closed. Is this done on purpose? ABSOLUTELY
Thank you, Commissioner Kruse, for bringing T2T to Bradenton! We also appreciate the T2T foundation for sticking with this project even after commissioners sent e-mails and texts to the public stating this was a "homeless camp" and "homeless shelter". Every citizen should watch the meetings leading up to and including the final T2T vote on October 10, 2023. With the exception of Commissioner Kruse, the behavior by the other 6 commissioners and their treatment towards the T2T Foundation was disgusting.
Residents regularly sit in traffic now on Manatee Avenue as travel and turn lanes are blocked off so that water trucks can manually water the medians, something we have never had to do before our "brought to you by Manatee County Commissioners" medians. This is especially frustrating as we have always have Florida friendly low maintenance medians and have never experienced backups due to landscaping.
Right now HB 87, "Taking of Bears" is on Gov. DeSantis' desk for signature. Florida Wildlife Federation urges a rejection of this bill. It will allow the killing of bears by citizens, which is currently not allowed. There is not a bear problem, yet a human problem where bears are attracted by the smell of garbage, to bird feeders, BBQ grills and stupid people who feed the bears. Please contact the Govonor's office to ask for this bill to be rejected. Office of Govenor is 850-717-9337. Protect these amazing animals! Ruth Lawler
As usual, well said, Commissioner Schaefer. The additional point worth making is that this isn’t a parking garage per se; it’s a vendetta. KVO’s gotta go!!!!
The poll question should have "Low" in front of "Impact Fee Policy." Also, it seems that the developers have organized a group of partisans that are now participating the Bradenton Times polling. Comments are now more telling than the actual polling where the fix is now in.
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