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With Flagler County realizing a 9% increase in property values, county commissioners on Sept. 8 voted unanimously to lower the tax rate slightly in the coming year. Because of the higher property values, the lowered rate will still bring the county government $5.9 million more tax revenue in the coming year than the county received in the current year, amounting to a tax increase. The county’s current property tax rate is $8.5847 mills per $1,000 of taxable value, or 8.5847 mills, including 0.33 mills for debt service millage. Commissioners voted to reduce the milage to $8.4847 per $1,000 of taxable value, or 8.4847 mills. For a $200,000 house with $150,000 in taxable value, the difference between the two rates amounts to $15: A homeowner with such a house would pay $1,287.71 if the rate stayed at 8.5847 mills, and will pay $1,272.71 at the 8.4847 mill rate. The rollback rate — the rate that would bring the county the same dollar amount in tax revenue as it received in the current year, and therefore would not constitute a tax increase — would have been an operating millage of 7.8475 mills. For the $200,000 house with $150,000 in taxable value, the rollback would have meant a tax bill of $1,177.13. The county’s tentative budget for the coming year is $221,094,445, a total of $1,229,376 over the current year’s $219,865,069 budget. The county’s final public hearing on the millage rate and budget will be at 5:01 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20.
Carla Cline delivers 450 gift cards to Advent-Health workers, nearly halfway to the goal of 1,000. Photo by Brian McMillan
Carla Cline, the owner of Flagler Surf Art and Stuff and the website www. flaglersurf.com, said she has since heard of other people taking up the same idea for health care workers in Orlando, Brandon and Palatka.
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Travis Sundell had been in the restaurant business for 15 years, so he knows running an eatery is not conducive to raising a family. He got out of the business 14 years ago when his oldest son was 2. Now he’s opened a new restaurant. But the new endeavor – SunBros Café at 301 Moody Blvd. in Flagler Beach – is a family affair. Travis runs the business and does some of the cooking. His wife, Leigh Anne, bakes the pastries. Their oldest son, Abrien, 16, is the barista. And Anisen, 9, wipes down tables and helps out. “This is our first full-own restaurant,” said Travis, who bought the building with his brother, Dan. “We always talked about doing something on our own, in a coffee shop style.” But the building they bought has a full kitchen and a second room for a bar area, so now they have a beachside coffee shop with a full breakfast and lunch menu. They have tables inside and during the day put tables outside on the sidewalk in front on Moody Avenue, and they’re building a patio and outdoor bar area in the back on South Daytona Avenue. “We want that European feel,” Travis said. “Everywhere you go
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use in the mornings. “We’re open to different things like that, like if someone wants to have an art class,” he said. On some days they have had live music. “We don’t want it to be like a library where everyone has to be quiet,” Abrien said. “We’re fortunate to have this inside space to do some of that stuff,” Leigh Anne said. The Sundells are from Central Illinois, where Travis was a public works superintendent for the small town of Delavan. He was also on the School Board. Travis’ brother, Dan, lives in St. Augustine. They’ve been open for about three months and have done no advertising other than Facebook. But through word-of-mouth they have a group of diehard regulars, Travis said. They have 15 employees including cook Ryan McLean and several high school students. “Our goal is to put out quality food,” Leigh Anne said. “We want to try to make it the same every time,” said Travis.
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SunBros Cafe is a family affair with (seated from left) Leigh Anne, Travis, Abrien and Anisen (standing) Sundell. “We’re one of the few places you can get a good cappuccino and a club sandwich,” Travis said.
eat in Germany is outside.” Currently they are open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the week and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. They will have a full liquor license, Travis said, and eventually they want to serve dinner but not stay open late at night. Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co. out of St. Louis supplies SunBros with gourmet coffee. “We’re one of the few places you can get a good cappuccino and a club sandwich,” Travis said. The club sandwich, said Abrien, “is what a sandwich should be,” with hand-carved turkey and ham, bacon and tomato with avocado, instead of mayonnaise. That’s one of their many twists. “We have avocado toast,” Travis said. “A lot of other people do that, but we put bacon and eggs on top.” They have espresso, macchiato,
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Carla Cline delivers 450 gift cards to Advent-Health workers, nearly halfway to the goal of 1,000.
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The effort will continue until the goal of 1,000 is reached. To donate, buy a $20 gift card for a Flagler County restaurant, write a nice note inside, and drop it off at one of the locations below during their normal business hours, or contact organizer Carla Cline on Facebook Messenger or email flaglersurf.com@gmail.com. DROP-OFF LOCATIONS: Flagler Surf Art and Stuff, 211 S. Third St., Flagler Beach Wild Birds Unlimited, 150 Palm Coast Parkway NE, Palm Coast Intracoastal Bank, 1290 Palm Coast Parkway NW, Palm Coast Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast
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Carla Cline, of Flagler Beach, helped distribute gift cards at AdventHealth on Aug. 30.
week ago a church group came to sing to the staff, and nurses “started crying because they were going through so much.” As of Aug. 30, there were 77 patients being treated with COVID-19 at AdventHealth Palm Coast, which advertises a capacity of 99 beds but can convert space to accommodate more. Five people died at the hospital over the weekend, bringing the total
of Flagler deaths to 164. The Emergency Department typically has a staff of 30-40, but some have had to quarantine periodically. Being short-staffed at a time of high hospitalizations has led many staff members to work 60 hours per week, according to Mary Radcliff, director of emergency services for the past six years. “They feel very overwhelmed
some days,” she said. “You have all of your rooms full, and patients are in the hallways, and the nurses are wanting to do the best they can for every patient that comes in, and a lot of times, there’s three times the patients there is staff to take care of them. But they still do what they have to do without hesitation.” Cline, the owner of Flagler Surf Art and Stuff and the website
www.flaglersurf.com, said she has since heard of other people taking up the same idea for health care workers in Orlando, Brandon and Palatka. Many nurses have told her that the gift cards are “a bright spot.” “This was a hope to wash over things for a moment with something good, instead of complaining and arguing and sadness,” she said. “There is so much negative going on, and you can’t really battle that with negative. It doesn’t work.” — Jonathan Simmons contributed to this report.
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Counsel. Because the tone and what was said creates a strained relationship with the community, Ms. Pontieri has elected to resign from her position and the resignation was accepted effective today.” Pontieri’s resignation letter, addressed to Sheriff Rick Staly, stated: “I have greatly appreciated my time with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and I thank you immensely for the opportunity to serve our community. I want nothing but the very best for the agency and for Flagler County, and I pray for the safety and success of all staff as you continue to grow the Sheriff’s Office and protect our citizens.” Later, she defended herself in a statement sent to the Palm Coast Observer and the News-Journal: “I previously had a podcast in which I discussed current events and politics—with a large focus being on my advocacy against anti-police rhetoric in this country. ... I’m tired of seeing victims of crime and the police that protect us being cast aside, while people perpetrating crimes are being uplifted in order to further a political narrative.” She went on to say that she was forced to resign. “Contesting false rhetoric that has done nothing but tear our country apart is not something that someone in America should be punished for,” she wrote. “But, hey, I guess this is all part of the ‘new normal.’” Email jonathan@palmcoastobserver.com.
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Two Gold Star families will speak at a luncheon hosted by The Lori Fund at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 30, at the Hammock Beach Resort, 200 Ocean Crest Drive, Palm Coast. Hilary Robinson McKeon, 35, is the daughter of Army Lt. Col. Craig Robinson, who lost his life in 1994, and Michelle Scherkenbach is the surviving spouse of Army Warrant Officer Chris Scherkenbach, who lost his life in 2006. Michelle will be accompanied by their 17-year-old daughter, Sarah Grace. The Lori Fund will also be donating an additional $50,000 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) at the luncheon, bringing the total that they’ve donated this year to SOWF to $150,000. Much of the money that was donated was raised earlier this year from a concert held on the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach featuring Pryor Baird and Kaleb Lee “We have zero overhead expenses at The Lori Fund, so all monies raised go directly to helping the families of our fallen special warriors,” said The Lori Fund founder Frank Petruno. The remaining funds were donated by “a village of people that have rallied around this cause.” To understand more about what The Lori Fund does, watch this video from the 2021 fundraiser: https://www.thelorifund. com/Videos-6-19602.html.
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