Wow.. It seems like yesterday's post about becoming a charter county is pretty popular. The Facebook page has over 200 comments as of this morning. I think I only saw one or two comments that were outright against the idea. So it seems like it is a pretty
I have been thinking a lot lately about what it would look like if Citrus County were to become a Charter County. Let's have that discussion. First, for those that do not know, Counties and Cities have the ability to create a Charter that guides their county. This
I do not even know what to say. Yesterday the BOCC approved by a 3-2 vote the Pulte Homes project on SR200. This is yet ANOTHER up zoning project at the request of a well known developer. Seems that we have an issue saying "no" to certain
It is County Commission Tuesday. We talked a little yesterday about things that are coming up at the meeting today. I wanted to take a moment to highlight a couple of things and take a closer look before they come up for the meeting. #1 - The Inverness Government Center renovation
Hope you all had a great weekend! It is a BOOC meeting week, so today I am going to highlight some things for the meeting tomorrow if you are planning on attending or just watching. The big thing and we covered this a bit last week is the Right Rudder
Happy Friday! Election week has come and gone and we have two new commissioners, a new school board member and a new judge. Social media has made this cycle interesting to say the least. We will talk more about that later. Today, we are back to county government. Tuesday is
What an election night it was! We kicked off the night with a Facebook Live to discuss the election results as they came in live. That was fun. Maybe I do it again in the future. I can see the potential for that type of thing going forward. But enough
Here is a special Saturday edition. We are going to talk about the Pine Ridge Ruling that just came down. If you want to read it in full, check out yesterday's post. I have posted the full decision on that page. This is a full smack down of
I will have a full article tomorrow (special Saturday edition) but for now, here is the decision by the court if you wish to review it. It is not listed on SCORS yet. Pine Ridge JudgementPine Ridge Judgement.pdf1 MBdownload-circle
Today, I came across an article from the Chronicle talking about the Sand Mine decision from Tuesday. This article is apparently about Commissioner Bays asking questions to the county attorney via email. I have not seen the email in question yet, but the Chronicle apparently has received a copy as
Man.. what a day! You had heard me talk up the sand mine quite a bit the last few days. There was a reason for that. I was asked to help do the presentation by the intervenor. We wanted to keep that a secret until the meeting took place so
Cue up things that don't make sense. Remember the Sand Mine in Lecanto? I wrote about it several times over the last few months, mainly because they were operating a mining operation without the required county and state permits. Well, Citrus County sent out staff to investigate a