voter
Welcome to Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend. I flew up to Nashville on Friday and will be here until Wednesday for a photography conference I am helping one of my brand sponsors with. I will do my best to write some things for you all this week,
budget
Good morning! We are going to start today with short note on Crystal River. It is not everyday that an elected official brings a development project to a development board seeking their approval. That is what will be happening tonight when Mayor Joe Meek brings a proposal to create a
491
As mentioned yesterday morning, 491 was coming back up for discussion at the BOCC meeting... and what a discussion it was. What seemed like a simple thing... adding 491 to an appropriations request... turned into a surprise... one commissioners were not expecting. Commissioner Kinnard brought this item to the agenda.
491
Happy Commission Tuesday! Today the BOCC comes back from their holiday "break" and they are kicking off the Tuesday of the New Year with a BOCC meeting. This is not really a big agenda day. There are a good number of items coming up, but nothing earth shattering.
Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great first weekend of the new year! This week we are also kicking off our Facebook group for those that are subscribed to this page. This will be an "Insiders" group and allows me to have direct communications with those
get involved
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a fun and safe celebration to ring in 2026. Today I want to present a two word challenge to all of you to kick off 2026. Be Involved I was speaking with a commissioner a few weeks ago and asked how
new year
Happy New Years Eve! Nothing major on today's agenda. I will highlight a few of our biggest stories in the county from 2024 and call it a day. Tomorrow I am going to set a challenge for everyone for 2026, so make sure you come check that out.
citrus county
Good morning everyone! I survived the Christmas weekend chaos of Epcot. It actually was not too bad with crowds and the weather was perfect. Fun day to wrap up the Christmas break. Back to the fun life of a business owner today. Today, I am going to point out a
collusion
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I had the rare opportunity to be off of work (mostly) for the last 4 days. Being a small business owner (including this) means that I am running almost non-stop... and the winter season in the photography world is the most busy with
conservation
Today we are going to follow up on our post yesterday about Betz Farm and talk about conservation lands here in Citrus County. The questions are... do we have enough land dedicated to conservation? How much of this land should be controlled by the county? That is going to be
Betz Farm
I was browsing through BOCC emails the past week and came across an email from Chuck Pigeon, who is the person helping James Dicks design and build Betz Farm. This email was a submission of the updated Betz Farm plan that was submitted to staff. This is the process before
banking
Happy Friday. Back to Crystal River. This will be an update to the Brannen Bank piggyback of the school board banking contract. As mentioned previously, the City of Crystal River opted to go this route to avoid the RFP process. This allowed them to hand pick Brannen Bank for the