To Replace Manager Bruce Campbell, Flagler Beach Returns to Old Playbook:...
Like his predecessor, who was an interim manager of Flagler Beach for five years before he decisively quit, Bruce Campbell is finding it difficult to walk away from the job, and the city commission is...
View Article662 Spaces Would Convert to Paid Parking in Flagler Beach in Panel’s Vast,...
Flagler Beach's Ad Hoc Parking Committee, at work two years, will submit its recommendations Thursday to a special meeting of the city commission, with a focus on two options that call for paid parking...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Doesn’t Have a Parking Problem. It Has a Big Government Problem.
If Flagler Beach adopts paid parking, it'll invite a problem as onerous as Palm Coast's red-light cameras, damaging its reputation, needlessly hurting its businesses and alienating its closest and most...
View ArticleOrdering Them to “Get On With It,” Flagler Beach City Manager Tells His...
Addressing his five bosses more bluntly than he has at any point in his four years as city manager, Cambpell told them he's not interested in another contract and that he's quitting in September. The...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Will Seek In-House City Manager Before Putting Out Broader Call
As it replaces Bruce Campbell, who's leaving in september, the city will give preference to an internal applicant, then possibly advertise more broadly later this month if internal applicants don't...
View ArticleIn Flagler Beach’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Manager Campbell,...
The commission doesn’t want to have an interim manager, fearing a return to the years when it employed one—Bernie Murphy—for five years. The post In Flagler Beach’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship...
View ArticleThree Companies Tee Up Proposals to Run Flagler Beach’s Fallow 9-Hole Golf...
The 34 acres of the old Ocean Palm Golf Club will be in play this evening at 5:30 p.m. as a committee hears proposals to rejuvenate the grounds profitably through a lease. The post Three Companies Tee...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Manager’s Short-List Gets Shorter as 3 Withdraw, Leaving Only 2
Flagler Beach is having trouble attracting candidates for its city manager's job, with just 23 applying and most of those making the short-list deciding to take jobs elsewhere. The commission...
View ArticleFlagler Beach and Manager Newsome Agree To Open-Ended Contract at $88,000 a Year
City commissioners had only minor quibbles, such as the elimination of a $200-a-month car allowance and evaluation matters, before they adopted the contract with the long-time Escambia County...
View ArticleEx-Flagler Beach City Manager Applies for Unemployment, Though He Resigned...
Ex-city manager Bruce Campbell ad made clear to the Flagler Beach City Commission that it was his choice not to have his contract renewed, which would make him ineligible for unemployment as the...
View ArticleDog Bite at Ex-Flagler Beach Manager Campbell’s Property Sends Mail Carrier...
Mail carrier Jennifer Benson, 49, was treated for eight stitches after a dog at ex-Flagler Beach City Manager Bruce Campbell's house attacked her when Campbell opened the door to pick up a package. The...
View Article662 Spaces Would Convert to Paid Parking in Flagler Beach in Panel’s Vast,...
Flagler Beach's Ad Hoc Parking Committee, at work two years, will submit its recommendations Thursday to a special meeting of the city commission, with a focus on two options that call for paid parking...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Doesn’t Have a Parking Problem. It Has a Big Government Problem.
If Flagler Beach adopts paid parking, it'll invite a problem as onerous as Palm Coast's red-light cameras, damaging its reputation, needlessly hurting its businesses and alienating its closest and most...
View ArticleOrdering Them to “Get On With It,” Flagler Beach City Manager Tells His...
Addressing his five bosses more bluntly than he has at any point in his four years as city manager, Cambpell told them he's not interested in another contract and that he's quitting in September. The...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Will Seek In-House City Manager Before Putting Out Broader Call
As it replaces Bruce Campbell, who's leaving in september, the city will give preference to an internal applicant, then possibly advertise more broadly later this month if internal applicants don't...
View ArticleIn Flagler Beach’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Manager Campbell,...
The commission doesn’t want to have an interim manager, fearing a return to the years when it employed one—Bernie Murphy—for five years. The post In Flagler Beach’s On-Again, Off-Again Relationship...
View ArticleThree Companies Tee Up Proposals to Run Flagler Beach’s Fallow 9-Hole Golf...
The 34 acres of the old Ocean Palm Golf Club will be in play this evening at 5:30 p.m. as a committee hears proposals to rejuvenate the grounds profitably through a lease. The post Three Companies Tee...
View ArticleFlagler Beach Manager’s Short-List Gets Shorter as 3 Withdraw, Leaving Only 2
Flagler Beach is having trouble attracting candidates for its city manager's job, with just 23 applying and most of those making the short-list deciding to take jobs elsewhere. The commission...
View ArticleFlagler Beach and Manager Newsome Agree To Open-Ended Contract at $88,000 a Year
City commissioners had only minor quibbles, such as the elimination of a $200-a-month car allowance and evaluation matters, before they adopted the contract with the long-time Escambia County...
View ArticleEx-Flagler Beach City Manager Applies for Unemployment, Though He Resigned...
Ex-city manager Bruce Campbell ad made clear to the Flagler Beach City Commission that it was his choice not to have his contract renewed, which would make him ineligible for unemployment as the...
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