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Volusia EMS pushes for more stations Heavy overtime loads are becoming a big concern for EMTs, as well as a lack of permanent stations. PAGE 3

Henry Hotel to open on Old Dixie in a year The hotel will be a ‘boutique hotel’ with a restaurant that will serve as a steakhouse on weekends, according to representatives of the developer. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

The new owners of the derelict hotel structure on Old Dixie Highway expect to finish remodeling in about a year and plan to add a 30-by90-foot pool, a 3,500-square-foot banquet center, and a restaurant that will be a steak house on the weekends, representatives told Flagler County commissioners at a March 21 meeting. The renovated structure will be called the Henry Hotel. “We’re anxiously awaiting to get started, and we’re looking at a oneyear construction schedule from when we receive our permit,” said Jim Albano, representing architect Bespoke Group and general contractor Albano Design Studios. The county and the hotel’s ownership have been at odds over the renovation process missing construction deadlines, and the slow pace of the redevelopment process has frustrated some area residents. The development company’s representatives acknowledged that the property still isn’t much to look at. “Listen, the property doesn’t look pretty right now, even though it was cleaned up,” said Greg Kong, a local real estate agent representing owner MG Capital Partners. But, he added, “All of the dirty beds, the bathrooms — all of those things were removed. ... I don’t know how many dumpster loads there were, but there were a lot.” Recent illegal dumping has been a problem, Albano said, that has since been fixed: A breach in the construction fence had allowed trespassers to slip onto the property, but the breach has been mended and the

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Trish Vevera’s “Mystery Sail,” currently on display at Grand Gallery, is a homage to the tragic condominium collapse at Surfside.

Ship graveyards, magical marshes Trish Vevera and Karen Ann Patton share the space at Grand Gallery at Grand Living Realty. BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

On the morning of the reception for the new art show at Grand Gallery, artist Trish Vevera drove her truck back to Palm Coast from Wekiwa Springs State Park in Apopka where she was among 25 artists who lived

played next to each other. The oil and cold-wax paintings depict graveyards of Navy ships. The many layers of paint and beeswax mixed together hide and reveal outlines of ships under the water. “Oil and cold wax are new to me,” said Vivera, who was the Gargiulo Art Foundation’s Artist of the Year in 2018. “I discovered it during the first summer of COVID.” Another oil and cold-wax work by Vevera in the show is “Mystery Sail,” which pays homage to the tragic condominium collapse in Surfside. With a sailboat in the background, images of people fly-

ing up to heaven are carved out of the layers. “This is more personal,” she said. “Every picture has a story, but some have a deeper meaning.” Patton, who has been painting for about 50 years, is from New York but has lived in Plantation Bay for 20 years. She has studied under famous watercolor artists, including Edgar Whitney. Inspired by natural landscapes and tropical flowers, her paints are filled with vivid colors. The Grand Gallery is open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Mullers retire after 9 years on Citizen Observer Patrol Mike Muller was Citizen Observer Patrol chief for four years, adding beach, bicycle and marine units during his tenure. BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

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in cabins for a week and painted feverishly, inspired by the natural surroundings. “I did two paintings a day, one this morning,” she said on March 6, showing off a truckload full of new works. Vevera and Karen Ann Patton are sharing the wall space at Grand Gallery at Grand Living Realty, 2298 Colbert Lane, through April 16 in the show, “Plein Air to Abstract, Pastel and Paint.” Vevera, who is known for her outdoor painting, has a selection of abstract studio art in the show, including Graveyards I and II, dis-

When Mike Muller was promoted to chief of the Citizen Observer Patrol four years ago, about 15 COPs in leadership positions had just retired. “I was the last guy with any kind of rank,” he said. “Just the week before, I was promoted to captain.” Muller and his wife, Pam, are leaving the Flagler County Sheriff Office’s volunteer organization after nine years. Muller retired as chief on March 1. Pam is retiring as a commander on April 6. Under Mike Muller’s leadership,

the COP added three patrols — an ATV unit on the beach to help people who are injured; a bicycle unit with COPs patrolling the trails in pairs, and a marine patrol boat to provide aid to disabled boats. He also expanded the COP’s traffic crash investigations from about 70 to 90 a year to about 80 a month. The COPs who pass a Sheriff’s Office course investigate crashes, give citations for non-criminal violations and go to court if the citation is challenged. “One time I went to a crash scene on Belle Terre, and there was one car flipped over and another in a ditch,” Mike Muller said. “Two women were hugging each other. They said, ‘We’re just lucky to be alive, so we hugged each other.’” Later that day, he went on another call, and two men were fighting, although there was barely a scratch SEE MIKE PAGE 6

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Flagler Beach will soon gets its farmer’s market back — although this time it will be run by the nonprofit Flagler Strong and located at city’s Wickline Park rather than the plot of land that used to host it and which is now the planned site of a hotel. The new farmers market will be on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the park at 315 S. Seventh St., with low-volume acoustic music and prepared foods, including pastries and coffee, alongside fruits, vegetables and other goods. A start date for the new farmers market hasn’t yet been determined. Brick-and-mortar stores from Flagler Beach will be able to set up a booth for free, while others will pay $10 weekly rental fee. “I’ve got some bakers and some people that will be selling prepared foods, and I’ve got a guy that does custom blend coffee beans, and he’ll be selling coffee,” Flagler Strong President Tracy Callahan-Hennessey told commissioners during a March 10 City Commission meeting. “So, you get your muffin and

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readings, things like that. ... I’m not looking for any kind of volume. I am looking for just a very low background, acoustic kind of sound, just to kind of give it a cool and different vibe than some of the other markets.” The city’s attorney, Drew Smith, noted that since the farmers market would be on city property, the city could set rules to keep music from disturbing neighbors. Police Chief Matt Doughney suggested having the music start at 10 a.m. rather than 8 a.m., and commissioners agreed. Johnston said the steel drum band had been an important element of the old farmers market, and was quiet enough that if it was playing at one end of the market, you couldn’t hear it from the other. “You could ride your bike to the market, you’d pick up your vegetables, steel drum band was playing — it’s what makes Flagler Beach Flagler Beach.” Johnston said. “... Thank you for bringing that element back to the farmers market.” Cooley noted that the part of the park Flagler Strong had originally proposed using for the market contains retention areas that would be underwater in heavy rain. CallahanHennessey said she’d been informed of that and would shift to upland areas. “I think it’s really going to be a great thing for our community,” said Commissioner James Sherman. “I miss having the farmers market there. ... I hope it really takes off, because I’m looking forward to taking my little daughter and wife over there on a Saturday morning. Great way to start your weekend.”

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‘They are on the move consistently’ EMS personnel need their own stations, leaders say JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Overtime hours. EMS stations vs. “respite” centers. Ambulances. These were all topics addressed during a five-hour Volusia County Council workshop to examine the operations of its emergency medical services, where officials discussed existing challenges, the division’s efforts to address them, and future staffing needs. Improvements to EMS have been trickling in since 2019, with the addition of a new nurse triage program and the implementation of a hybrid deployment model, though the system continues to run primarily on dynamic deployment, where ambulances are dispatched throughout the response area based on call volume. However, while a dynamic deployment model tends to allow for faster response times, it also takes a toll on EMS staff — and in a time where there is a national paramedic shortage at the same time as increased demand, the average paramedic in Volusia County worked 362 hours of overtime in the last year, as of March 1, said Jason Lademann, president of the Volusia County EMS union. The average EMT has worked 256.

BY THE NUMBERS In fiscal year 2021 so far, EMS has reported: 70,455 calls for service 54,289 total transports, including: 6,023 interfacility transfer 1,116 basic life support transports 77% of call ending in transport 1,544 calls dispatched to the county’s nurse triage line 389,610 miles driven for transport

“The union recognizes that the county has acknowledged that there’s been a huge workload placed upon the paramedics and EMTs of Volusia County EMS, and we appreciate that,” Lademann said. “The county has acknowledged that overtime demands that we’ve been facing year after year are not sustainable.” The union is also mindful that the current overtime data is “skewed downward,” he added, since employees who have been recently hired have yet to collect a full year’s worth of data to contribute to the average hours of overtime worked. Michael Colman, director of Volusia County EMS, said during the workshop that there is a plan in place to fix this, but it will take two years. In the meantime, the EMS union has stepped up to fill the staffing voids. “But at some point, we have to now let the valve out, let some relief out for these guys,” said Colman, who was hired in August 2021, “start staffing this relief factor that we’ve talked about and really try to move this forward.” But the reality is, Colman continued, even if the council gave them the budget to hire all of the employees necessary to fill the vacancies, the division would have trouble finding candidates. EMS STATIONS

While overtime hours may be high, Lademann said the most pressing issue is the need to provide EMS stations for paramedics and EMTs. “Although the overtime demands issue is a close second place, the overtime demands are a reflection of retention,” he said. “And that first priority of providing stations for EMS personnel to work at addresses one of the contributors to turnover that we’ve identified, as we’ve studied those who have departed the organization in recent years.” And being without a dedicated place to go to when deployed, but not active on a call, is hard on EMS personnel. The union president told the council members during the workshop that EMS need a space to write

reports, perform training, check out equipment, eat their meals, wash their hands and rest away from a constantly-running ambulance. And he suggested that it be a permanent building. “When we look at leases and rentals, it makes us vulnerable to changing political priorities with different partnerships,” Lademann said. “And when we look at things like modular structures, although they might give us access to a building in a faster fashion, those type of buildings also leave us vulnerable to severe weather or hurricane deployments.” He also said that when the time comes for these buildings to come to fruition, the county refer to them as “EMS stations” rather than “respite centers.” “When government provides a building for police officers, we call it a police station,” Lademann said. “When government provides a building for firefighters, we call it a fire station, but in recent months when government has considered providing buildings for EMS employees, we call it a rest area. So we ask for parity and we ask to be termed equally and treated equally as far as the need for buildings and

“When it’s an informal arrangement, and we find ourselves in the position where we have to knock on the door because we don’t have a door code, or we don’t have badge access to enter the building, you get a strong sentiment that you’re very much a visitor.” JASON LADEMANN, president of the Volusia County EMS union

how we term them because we want the public to know that we are working from those places.” MODULAR BUILDINGS

77% of calls for service end in ambulance transport, the county reports.

The county is planning to put one modular building for EMS employees at Fire Station 46 in DeLand, but Colman said if the county decides to go in a different direction after seeing how this one fares, they can always pivot. “We’ve gone through a lot of ideas

of how to drop these stations around, because the reality is that this county is growing super fast,” Colman said. “So we don’t know where that station is going to be in a few years, and if we do a lot of brick-and-mortar stuff ... and then all of the sudden dynamics change, we have people in other areas, now we need to abandon that spot and then that’s good for the taxpayers and all the effort that was put into this.” During a July 2021 workshop, $1.8 million of American Rescue Plan Act Transition Funds were directed to be set aside for the EMS stations. Volusia County Council member Heather Post asked why ambulance personnel weren’t being allowed to use fire stations in the interim. Typically, EMS personnel aren’t at these stations for very long anyway, she pointed out. “They are on the move consistently,” she said. “Why aren’t we sort of allowing them to base out of the nearest fire station from wherever they would be stationed instead of the 7Eleven so that they can actually use the fire station, fridge or the fire station restroom?” Colman said rest locations are based on the response time standard of eight minutes and 59 seconds. In order to meet that, they need trucks in the “most ideal place,” and fire stations wouldn’t necessarily be those places. Plus, it would take longer for EMS personnel to get on the road. “I’m not discounting your idea, it’s just if we do that, then we have to agree that 8:59 isn’t a reality that we could get there for a while,” he said. County Council Chair Jeff Brower asked if EMS personnel are allowed in fire stations, and County Manager George Recktenwald said they are. However, he also added that during the pandemic, there were situations where the county was aiming to keep first responders as isolated as possible. Lademann said that what they need for arrangements like this to be successful is a formal arrangement. “When it’s an informal arrangement, and we find ourselves in the position where we have to knock on the door because we don’t have a door code, or we don’t have badge access to enter the building, you get a strong sentiment that you’re very much a visitor,” he said. Post said that this isn’t a new idea; it’s been discussed several times in the past and that it’s urgent now; rest locations are needed to help with morale, recruitment and retention. “This not something that we should wait on,” she said. Recktenwald said the best course of action would be to attend the monthly Volusia County Fire Chiefs Association meeting and put together a list of participating stations for an agreement to come before the council in the near future. New Smyrna Beach Fire Chief Shawn VanDemark, who is also the Fire Chiefs Association vice president, said they “certainly have an

To relieve some stress on the county’s EMS advanced life support ambulance units, over the last couple of years, Volusia has slowly increased its use of basic life support ambulances to respond to low acuity calls What’s the difference from a staffing perspective? An advanced life support, or ALS, ambulance requires at least one paramedic and one EMT to be onboard. The BLS ambulances are meant to save ALS ambulance for critical calls. “We have plenty of advanced life support trucks currently to manage the life threatening emergencies where time really matters,” Colman said. “But we don’t have enough ALS trucks currently to manage those lower acuity, lower priority calls that could go in a basic life support truck, and so what our goal is right now is to fill in that gap.” The county estimates that, out of its 54,289 transports in fiscal year 2021, 17% required advanced life support intervention. Lademann asked the council “ask the tough questions about that information,” because as a field parammedic for the last 12 years in Volusia County, he said they are always busy performing interventions or life saving care during calls. After the workshop, Lademann said the union feels it’s important for the county to recognize that the use of a few basic life support ambulances — of which the highest they have ever had in service at any one moment was six — is a temporary move.

appetite for this.” “Getting these men and women to have a place where they can stop being a paramedic for five minutes is a big deal,” he said. “We have a great partnership with them. We run every single call we run in the city with them, so there’s not going to be an issue there.” He also said that he couldn’t see paramedics stationed at fire stations impacting response times, as there are many throughout Volusia, both county- and city-run. ‘MANDATORY’ OVERTIME

When it comes to working overtime, Colman shared with the council that it’s not really voluntary. “If somebody doesn’t volunteer for it, somebody else will be ‘voluntold’ for it,” he said, adding that it’s unfortunate and that the division is aware this is hurting recruitment. In fiscal year 2021, some paramedics racked up over 500. The most overtime worked by one paramedic was 944 hours, according to the presentation to the council. This poses a concern for burnout. As a solution, EMS is asking for five EMTs and five paramedics each for fiscal years 2023 and 2024. The division is also hoping to fill its vacancies — 15 paramedic and five EMT positions. “We have seen a positive slope of improvements to achieve some of the goals of improving working conditions and improving them retention, and the EMS division has experienced the workforce shortage much like every other organization out there,” Lademann said. “But our issues have been mildly exacerbated by the fact that we had a significant number of vacancies, even going into the workforce shortage. So we’re certainly now feeling the pinch and the need to be able to attract and retain high-caliber and long term EMTs and paramedics to serve right here in our communities.”

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A star high school quarterback’s cockiness is turning into laziness, so his father leads him down the cellar steps to toughen him up, give him some humility. They’ve had boxing lessons in the past, pounding the heavy bag, but this time, the father crouches, with fists up, facing his son. The father is no longer a balding bartender — he’s a mad dog. The father quickly lands a punch, which is almost as infuriating to the teen as his father’s lectures. The teen tries to counterattack, but the father is too elusive, and several minutes later, drenched in sweat, the teen knows he’s beaten. “I was the heavy bag now,” the son says, reflecting back on the moment years later. In the climax to the scene, the father’s fist is flying toward his son’s face. “But he stopped, held it, barely touched my skin.” The father, with “tired, frightened, loving eyes,” embraces the son and repeats, “Don’t get cocky.” This scene, in the first quarter of “The Blood We Truly Bleed,” a new novel by Caesar Campana, may not be central to the plot of the story as described on the book’s cover, but it’s indicative of Campana’s technique of mining personal experience for character development. As a third-grader, Campana was beaten up by two fifthgraders, and his own bartender father taught him to box, for self defense. Campana, who is a retired teacher and football coach from Flagler Palm Coast High School, now splits his time between Palm Coast and North Carolina. He met with me on March 25 at Starbucks to talk about his writing. Tanned and trim, wearing a gray Nike ball cap, with Ray Bans perched on the brim, a gray polo with the buttons undone, gray shorts and black

Nike running shoes, he looked like he could be ready to jog onto the field for another football practice. But that was all in the past, and he is now in full novelist mode. He was a jock in high school, he tells me, before a 10th-grade English teacher in New Jersey, Joe Lang, inspired him to become a teacher, too. Campana majored in English and was the third-string quarterback at North Carolina State, for the legendary coach Lou Holtz. He has kept in touch with Holtz over the years. “He treated me as if I was the most valuable person on the team,” Campana said. At a dinner in Orlando two years ago, Holtz stood up and recognized Campana in front of the crowd. “I played for him 40 years ago,” Campana said, implying that a third-string quarterback would be forgettable for most coaches. But Holtz was genuine in his praise. “That’s the kind of guy he is,” Campana said. Holtz also sent Campana a condolence letter when Campana’s father died. Campana’s wife, Monica, is a retired Flagler Schools media specialist who has written letters to the editor about school issues recently, in the Palm Coast Observer. They have four children — Caesar IV, Carl, Catrina, Caitlyn — all of whom are both jocks and scholars, he said. Some might remember Caitlyn for being a swimmer at Matanzas High School; she’s 25 now and is starting a doctorate at Syracuse University. Campana coached football for 20 years at schools in Orlando before teaching English at FPC from 2003 to 2016. He was FPC’s head football coach from 2010 to 2014; one of his players was Robert Paxia, who is now the Bulldogs’ head coach. Campana also helped coach one year as an assistant for Travis Roland. Campana was ready to be done, though. “It’s so hot out there,” he said, now enjoying the breeze in the shade outside Starbucks. Roland, about half Campana’s age, once noticed Campana looking exhausted during practice and felt compelled to ask, “You OK?” Campana laughs about it now —

“Sometimes you’ve got to know how to box. Sometimes you’ve got to know how to read a poem.”

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Caesar Campana coached Flagler Palm Coast High School’s football team from 2010 to 2014. He’s been a book lover since high school.

he’s living the dream of retirementnovelist life. He gets up before dawn, reads the news with breakfast, then works on a writing project for two hours. He edits and revises using his phone, stealing moments here and there on errands around town, for example. He does on-location research from his computer, taking walking tours using Google Earth. Why does he do it? He knows it won’t make him famous. “I wrote my first short story after my father passed in 1989,” he said, “a story about him and me, and I gave it to my mother as a Christmas present. I thought, ‘This is kind of therapeutic, to search who you are, where you’re heading.’” The ultimate artist, he believes, creates his art and destroys it, not feeling any need to show it to others. He’s written five novels and has ideas for more. His sixth will be poetry, though, “so it really doesn’t count as a book,” he said. He has never sent any of his work to agents or publishers, only to family; he self-published his work via Amazon. (He mailed me a copy, too.) He gets mixed reviews from his family. One of his adult children told him chapter five of a recent book was his worst. “Within an hour, my oldest son contacted me and said, ‘Dad, chapter five is the best thing you ever wrote,’”

Campana recalled. He is in writing groups in North Carolina and learned from a workshop with Valerie Neiman (author of “To the Bones”) that it’s OK to “excite” the reader. “They don’t want to read about their normal lives,” he learned. In 2009, Campana taught at a dropout prevention program at Princess Place Preserve, for Matanzas High School. He was recommended for it by then-Superintendent Bill Delbrugge and hired by then-FPC Principal Jacob Oliva. Alongside teachers Mat Saunders and Hola Laquadera, they taught a variety of “credit recovery” classes and service learning projects. Years later, he visited Princess Place and came up with the idea for a novel connected with the Russian history of the place. “The Blood We Truly Bleed” is about a Faberge Egg at Princess Place, with leaps in time and many “spinning plates,” metaphorically, that come together for what he hopes is an “exciting” ending. Campana’s family remains his principle audience, and his children are adept at finding the autobiographical details in their literary football coach’s stories. “My grandfather was a professional boxer,” Campana said. “My father also boxed at West Palm High School. I was taught to box.” The teen in his novel is “kind of an alter ego with me,” he said, adding that his father also exposed him to great books, inspiring a respect for writing from an early age and teaching him a lesson that remained with him through his years as an English teacher and as a football coach: “Sometimes you’ve got to know how to box,” he said, “sometimes you’ve got to know how to read a poem.”

trash cleared. The general contractor expects to have 24-hour-security on site once they break ground. The hotel itself will be modeled after a boutique hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, and will be 96 rooms — down from the current 100 rooms as some of the rooms are converted to suites, Albano said. Commissioner Andy Dance asked what defines a “boutique hotel.” Albano said they’re generally small, but upscale. “Even though this is an outside corridor hotel, it is going to be on the on the higher-end side,” Albano said. “The interior furnishings are quite luxurious for each room.” One of the owners, he said, is a restaurateur who owns five restaurants in New York City. “The plan is at night and on the weekends, the restaurant becomes a nice steak house or chophouse,” Albano said. “Additionally, there’s a full service bar, as well as outdoor seating around the pool.” The owners are considering adding a second additional building with 90 rooms, spread across three stories, in the future. That one would have interior corridors. MG Capital, Albano said, owns 18 other hotels, and this one will be managed by Reliance Hotel Group, based in Phoenix, Arizona. Dance asked if the owners plan to keep the hotel or flip it. Albano said they expect to keep it. Commissioners spoke favorably of the company’s plans. Commissioner David Sullivan said, “It’s been vacant for a number of years, so it’s not an easy project to take on and try to fix up again, but it’s a great location — right on Interstate 95 and across from Plantation Bay — so seeing progress is the most important thing here.”

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Dance credits district’s ‘creative’ Flagler reacts to $19.3 million in state funding solution for resolving fee impasse State money may help

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At a commission meeting last week, County Commissioner Andy Dance proposed a compromise that led the County Commission to approve a school impact fee increase after months of back and forth with the school district. On Flagler Broadcasting’s “Free For All Friday” program on March 25, Dance credited the school district for adjusting the proposed impact fee to tie it to actual student population counts. “I think what sold it [to the County Commission] is that the district was creative enough to look at escalation clauses,” Dance said. “So it’s kind of a performance-based ordinance: If the district grows by 500 students, they get an additional $500 added to it.” School district impact fee increases, under state law, require the approval of the local County Commission. The escalation clause in the district’s impact fee increase ordinance helped win the support of Flagler County commissioners who’d been

wary of the student population projections the school district had been using when it had, last August, proposed much steeper impact fee increases than the ones the commission ultimately approved at a meeting on March 21. Initially, impact fees will still rise considerably from where they are now: For single family homes, the increase will be from the current $3,600 to $5,450, while impact fees for multifamily homes will rise from $931 to $1,360, and fees for mobile homes will rise from $1,066 to $2,150. The fact that more students will have to appear in schools before impact fees rise above those numbers, however, helped gain the support of commissioners who didn’t want to make builders pay to fund school capacity expansions that might not actually be needed. Commissioners debated the impact fee ordinance at length before voting unanimously in favor of it after Dance proposed that the commission approve the proposed fee increase, but also look into the possibility of adjusting another school funding mechanism, called “proportionate share mitigation,” that also draws money from builders. “I look forward to having those further discussions, so we can kind of put that issue behind us, galvanize around a new agreement there and move forward,” Dance said. School quality, and therefore school impact fees, also impact other county priorities such as economic development, Dance said.

“I look forward to having those further discussions, so we can kind of put that issue behind us, galvanize around a new agreement there and move forward.” ANDY DANCE, county commissioner

pay for a septic-to-sewer project, expansion at the Florida Agricultural Museum, and the extension of Commerce Parkway. JULIE MURPHY FLAGLER COUNTY PIO

Flagler County made its wishes known to its legislative delegation — Sen. Travis Hutson and SpeakerDesignate Rep. Paul Renner — and all three of its funding priorities are slated to receive millions, pending the budget approval of Gov. Ron DeSantis. “As members of the Flagler County legislative delegation, Senator Travis Hutson and I are very optimistic that the requested local project funding will remain intact via the 2022-23 state budget,” Renner said. “Thank you to local leaders who supported our efforts to ensure our community remains the best place to live, work, visit and raise a family.” If the governor signs without lineitem vetoes, the following items will be funded for a total of $19.3 million: the Septic to Sewer Conversion Project for the barrier island will receive $8 million ($1.6 million more than requested, which will allow the county to expand the original scope of work); the Florida Agricultural Museum Expansion Project will receive $4.5 million; and, Flagler Central Commerce Parkway will receive $6.8 million. “This is fabulous news for the residents of Flagler County,” said County Commission Chair Joe Mullins. “Sen. Hutson and Rep. Renner did a great job fighting for us.” SEPTIC CONVERSION

The $8 million Septic to Sewer Conversion Project is a big step towards the elimination of septic tank pollution on the barrier island. It will provide a layer of “storm hardening” for residents in the area to help protect

The Florida Agricultural Museum Expansion Project may receive $4.5 million for its proposed Welcome Center as part of the museum’s multi-phase expansion plan. When actualized, the facility will preserve agricultural history and improve the future of the industry, while providing an entertaining experience as visitors are guided through more than 400 years of history. Another $2 million may be available this fiscal year to help fund the museum’s proposed Pioneer Village. “It is wonderful to know that there will be additional grant opportunities for them,” said County Administrator Heidi Petito. “Flagler County fought to have the Agricultural Museum moved here years ago, and we really want to see it develop into all it can be.” COMMERCE PARKWAY

Flagler Central Commerce Parkway — commonly referred to simply as Commerce Parkway (by Wendy’s) — is in line to receive $6.8 million. Total legislative priority requests from the city of Bunnell and Flagler County totaled $11.8 million. “They (Hutson and Renner) asked if we would be willing to combine the request,” said Flagler County Legislative Liaison Holly Albanese. “Of course, we were. This is a lot of money for this very important project.” The 1.7-mile expansion of this roadway will connect State Road 100

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and U.S. 1 to unlock more than 1,000 acres of property for development. Design work has been completed. Funding for construction is the only hold up for the project completion. “I’m proud to have worked alongside Speaker-Designate Renner to bring these dollars home to Flagler,” Hutson said. “Although we are still subject to a veto, we are in a great position to receive funding that will help our county. This money is going to make a huge difference for our community.” Policy priorities for Flagler County also did well overall. The one disappointment is that funding was not appropriated for the Public Library Construction Grant Program in which Flagler County had been ranked No. 1 for six years running. Below is the outcome of the remaining policy priorities: Protect and increase funding for the State of Florida Transportation Disadvantaged Program – $60.4 million statewide are earmarked for this program. Support affordable and reliable high-speed Internet throughout Florida – $400 million identified for unserved. Increase support of the SCRAP (Small County Road Assistance Program) and SCOP (Small County Outreach Programs) grant programs to assist small counties in paving Farm-to-Market roads – SCRAP funding increased from $10 million to $47.7 million, and SCOP increased from $27 million to $115 million. Increase support for Septic-toSewer grant programs to accelerate conversion on the barrier island in Flagler County – $10 million allotted for an Upgrade Incentive Program. Increase Florida 911 fee revenue to allow for transition to Next Generation 911 services with the implementation of IP (Internet Protocol) call routing and regional mapping – presently unknown. Maintain Short Term Vacation Rental Legislation status quo – House and Senate bills that would have disrupted this were withdrawn. Continue to support Home Rule – successful.

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The district’s proposal to tie future rate increases to actual student population counts helped win the County Commission’s support, Andy Dance said.

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Flag flies for Kids Rock the Nation Anthony Wild’s organization has provided musical instruments to hundreds of students.

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Palm Coast resident Anthony Wild has been providing the gift of music to kids around the nation for eight years. Now the nation has given back. Thanks to the efforts of former Congressional staffer Joëlle Rice, an American flag flew over the United States Capitol in honor of Wild, the founder and executive director of Kids Rock the Nation. The nonprofit has provided over 1,500 musical instruments to hundreds of children and schools locally and around the nation. “We feel music is healing,” said Wild, a professional musician. “It gives kids a purpose. It’s a great way to express your feelings in a positive form.” In the past two weeks, Kids Rock the Nation has donated instruments to Mainland High School in Daytona Beach and Union Ridge Elementary School in Ridgefield, Washington. More instruments are headed to Plattsburgh, New

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York, by the end of the month, Wild said. Many of the recipients over the years have gone on to have professional music careers. Wild started Kids Rock the Nation in honor of a doctor who treated him for cancer and saved his life. The organization began by giving away guitars. Then it moved on to include other instruments — even a baby grand piano. Rice, a friend of Wild’s, was so impressed by his story, she felt he should receive some recognition. “What he’s done is remarkable,” she said. Rice worked in the Capitol for 34 years before retiring with her husband to Palm Coast in 2001. She started her career as an aide to a California congressman and then became

a bill clerk on the podium of the House Chamber. Finally, she was appointed an assistant manager in the House Republican Cloakroom. The cloakrooms are the nerve centers for the House and Senate. Rice was the first woman to be appointed to such a post by either party. She sought a Congressional commendation for Wild. Ernie Audino, the district director for U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, offered to have the flag flown over the U.S. Capitol in Wild’s honor. When Rice presented the flag and read the accompanying certification to Wild during the Kids Rock the Nation’s annual fundraising concert in December at the Bank & Blues Club in Daytona, Wild almost cried. “I’m pretty humble about it,” Wild said of his organization. “There are so many more kids who need help, so much more work to do. We’ve just scratched the surface.”

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on each car. If a fight breaks out, the COP calls the Sheriff’s Office to send a deputy. In nine years, Mike Muller said he called for backup once. The COPs also work parades and provide escorts from funerals. They have a house watch program where they will drive by and walk around a house if an owner requests when they are away. The COPs patrol in 13 marked Ford Fusion Hybrids, provided by the Sheriff’s Office. Pam Muller works the front desk at the Palm Coast Sheriff’s Office substation. “The whole office is run by COPs,” she said. “We dispatch, we do we fingerprints and weapon, liquor and Realtor licenses.” According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s website, “since 2005, the COPs have worked about 260,000 hours, saving the county about $4,806,000.” During the last four years, Citizens Observer Patrol has averaged about 70 to 75 vol-

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own family. They have an RV, and they want to travel. When Mike Muller stepped down, his fellow COPs gave him a miniature baseball bat with the inscription, “Thanks for going to bat for us.” They also signed a large card, each adding a heartfelt message. He read one out loud: “You have made a lasting impression in my life.” “I couldn’t read the card without crying,” he said. “I got emotional.” Geraldine Marsh, a retired dentist who joined the COPs after meeting Pam Muller, said she fell in love with the program. “I met a gracious group of people from different professional backgrounds with the sole purpose to serve the community,” she said. “Chief Muller and his wife have devoted with love a big part of their lives as retirees in supporting the sheriff’s department.”

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Mike, 68, and Pam, 67, have been married for 27 years. They have two children and two grandchildren. Mike retired at 56 after the couple sold their travel agency. After working 12 to 14 hours a day together for many years, they were looking for something new do. They moved from Chesapeake, Virginia, to Palm Coast. “We went to the Rib Fest, and the Sheriff’s Office was asking for volunteers,” Mike said. “I had never been in the police business in my life, but I took an application. We decided, ‘Let’s give back to the community, even if this is not our community.’ I got to meet the mayor. I never saw the mayor in Chesapeake.” This soon became their community. “We met a lot of friends through the COPs,” Pam said. “It was like a family.” Now, the Mullers — who worked 30 to 35 hours a week with the COPs — want to spend more time with their

“(Mike Muller) always talked to everybody, asked for their opinions. It was a very wide-open give-andtake.”

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