February 25 Alachua County Commission Regular Meeting
Press release from Alachua County
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Alachua County Commission will conduct its regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. The meeting is in the Jack Durrance Auditorium on the second floor of the Alachua County Administration Building (12 SE 1st St., Gainesville). The daytime portion of the meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. The evening portion of the meeting begins at 5 p.m.
The daytime meeting agenda items include:
- Presentation of a proclamation recognizing February 24, 2025 through March 2, 2025 as “Hazardous Materials Awareness Week” in Alachua County, Florida
- Presentation of a proclamation recognizing March 9th through March 15th as AmeriCorps Week in Alachua County, Florida
- Presentation of a proclamation recognizing March 1st 2025 as Library Support Day in Alachua County, Florida
- Equity Advisory Board Annual Presentation
- Raises for Sworn Law Enforcement, Certified Detention Officers and Certified Detention Deputies
- Request to advertise and staff presentation for staff-initiated amendments to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC)
- Alachua County Comprehensive Plan Evaluation and Update Process Overview
The evening meeting agenda items include:
- First of two public hearings for a Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) amendment related to small-scale alcoholic beverage production facilities
- Preliminary Development Plan for South Pointe PD – Phase 2, Unit 2 C
View the full meeting agenda and backup items.
During the regular meeting, the public can make comments at the meeting in person or call in during the 12 p.m. (noon) comment period. Callers will have three minutes to comment on anything not on the agenda and three minutes to discuss anything on the agenda. Callers can choose either or both. Those commenting on items on the agenda will not be allowed to comment again on agenda items if attending the meeting in person later in the day.
The call-in number is 1-929-205-6099. When prompted, enter meeting ID 873 5974 1977. Callers can hear the meeting while on hold and can use the system to listen. If you wish to comment, “raise your hand” by dialing *9 (star nine). Once you are called on by the last four digits of your phone number, unmute your phone by dialing *6 (star six).
The meeting can be viewed on Cox Channel 12, the AC TV app (Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku), the county’s Facebook and YouTube sites, and the county’s Video on Demand website.
Oh joy be still my beating DEI heart.
The Equity Board is giving their annual presentation listing all the 2024 accomplishments.
What did they do? Held meetings and got presentations from people on the government payroll, make work all around. What is up for 2025? More meetings with presentations from more folks on the government payroll.
This board is giving stiff competition to the Gun Violence task force for winning the annual award for “Having nothing but waste of time meetings and Doing Nothing.”
Yes this is Mini-Kenny Cornholeth and as a DEI hire myself (I am short stature and a little bit of a tard) I fully support all DEI activity especially if it means I get to wear my platform shoes.
This is for the city not the county, but it is the closest article to post this subject.
I want to sincerely thank the Chronicle for NOT running this story. Your efforts to keep the Alachua citizens in the dark is commendable. The last thing the Turkey Creek good ole boy real estate pro-sprawl development cartel wants is an announcement of elections qualification dates in Alachua. Someone without a mustache might (horrors) run for Mayor. This cannot be allowed to happen, or someone more liberal than Atilla the Hun might run for city commissioner.
(Reprinted from an not here news source. The last line should strike terror in every news source who is a fan of public records and free speech. Fans of rigged elections will applaud mightily.)
“The city of Alachua’s qualifying period, which opened Tuesday, Feb. 18, will run until noon on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Up for election are Alachua’s mayor and Commission Seat No. 2, currently occupied by Mayor Gib Coerper and Commissioner Ed Potts, respectively. Those interested in running can email Alachua Deputy City Clerk LeAnne Williams at le_williams@cityofalachua.org.
Polls will be open in Alachua from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on April 8.
The city has declined to release candidates’ names until the qualifying period is over.
https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/govt-politics/elections/days-left-to-qualify-for-alachua-newberry-elections“
We’d love for someone to donate enough money to pay a reporter to drive to Alachua on Monday evenings and sit through the meetings in person, since they don’t stream them or post videos. We don’t have anyone to monitor their meetings, their elections, or their website, so we generally only publish press releases. If you have some objection to this, go back to the first sentence. As far as I know, you have never donated a penny to us but continue to claim we must be corrupt because we don’t cover topics you find interesting.
Your masthead says “Local news you can trust.” It used to say “Holding local governments accountable.”
Your name is Alachua Chronicle and you live in Alachua, We (foolishly I guess) assume that you, with your keen interest in government, would start with the City of Alachua as you should find Alachua “interesting.” You should change your name to Alachua County Chronicle, but that would not be correct. Since you focus on Gainesville and Newberry, perhaps a name change to Gainesville and Part of Western Alachua County Chronicle would better reflect your emphasis.
After writing it, you could, with a few mouse clicks, every six months repost the same editorial “City of Alachua has the best AV Setup in the County, yet does NOT Livestream Their Meetings or put them Online. Shame on Alachua “Leaders.” Sure, it would not change anything and would cause the Alachua cartel to hate you more than they do now, but that goes with the territory of being a good Chronicle.
The local main street based rag prints nothing about the City, which means no one prints about the unusual politics in Alachua, and they get a free pass to continue business as usual. That is the sad part.
Your “shoulds” are your opinion, and it remains a resource problem.