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VOLUME 4, NO. 10

• JUNE 2021

10 takeaways from state session The 2021 Florida Legislative session is in the books. How will the state be different as a result? PAGE 3

Police chief retires

Port Orange Police Chief Thomas Grimaldi announced that he will retire as head of the city’s police force as of June 11.

“I am very thankful for the opportunities that I have been given to serve the citizens,” said Grimaldi said in a press release.

“Chief Grimaldi brought professionalism to his department in giving 5 ½ great years of service with integrity to our community,” said Mayor Don Burnette.

“He will truly be missed by us all, and I wish him well with the next chapter of his life.”

Grimaldi was hired by the city in 2015 after the city’s previous police chief, Gerald Monahan Jr., retired after 16 years. Prior to arriving in Port Orange, Chief Grimaldi was a 26-year veteran of the Bristol Connecticut Police Department, where he also served as the department’s chief.

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Sheila Cook, of Ormond Beach, and Carmen Tullius, of Port Orange, show off their running shirts during the 5K.

Dashing for donuts 200 runners take part in Ormond beach PAL’s annual 5K PAGE 6

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Futures Foundation recognizes students for improvement in grades, behavior, attitude and citizenship.

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YOUR TOWN VOLUSIA STUDENT GETS SCHOLARSHIP Shannon Greenwald, a food science student from Port Orange, was honored by the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture with an academic scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year.

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The Florida Lottery announces the winners from the third of eight drawings in the Gold Rush Supreme Bonus Play Promotion.

Cheryl Bennett, of Port Orange, took home the $1,139,209.84 jackpot top prize!

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What is your book about?

This book is about human feelings. All humans go through various phases in life where love, passion, sufferings, pathos and pleasure intertwine in a homogenous fluidity that is the essence of human existence. Poetry is the language of heart and it is the universal music of humanity — without it, life will be colorless.

What is joyful about writing, and what is frustrating?

Writing is a wonderful vehicle.

Sometimes, inner thoughts bring certain facts that are too painful to express. Those moments are painful, but it is cathartic.

What other authors have influenced you?

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My brother Bhudeb Sen influenced me how to write. Beside my brother, Rabindranath Tagore, Guy de Maupassant, Jean-

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Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes immensely influenced me.

What is the best advice you’ve ever received about writing?

Try to write every day. Anything comes to your mind about some events, experiences, images and other thing that touched your heart, just jot them down on a notebook, piece of paper or notes on your cell phone. Then follow through those notes to see if some story reveals itself from its hidden corner or space.

How can readers get a copy?

Amazon sells the book or buy it from the publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC.

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I have been writing poetry since my seventh grade. My maternal grandfather was a famous historian in India, and he published over 20 books. My brother Bhudeb Sen published two books before his death at age 23. They inspired me to publish my works.

My poetry book “If Life Was a Dream” is my third book. I published a nonfiction book, “Black Education in White America” and a short story collection, “Flower Still Blooms.”

Futures Foundation for Volusia County Schools recently elected area business leaders Valencia Gallon-Stubbs, Matt Gillikin and Josh McCann to its Board of Directors.

Gallon-Stubbs, of Daytona Beach, serves as general counsel for Bethune-Cookman University. She is a graduate of Mainland High School, Daytona State College, University of Central Florida, and Nova Southeastern University. Gallon-Stubbs serves on the Daytona Beach Mid-Town Redevelopment Board and is active in many area organizations.

Gillikin, of Port Orange, has been a senior financial adviser/ first vice president with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Daytona Beach since October 2010. He is a graduate of Spruce Creek High School and Flagler College. He serves as a youth Little League coach in Port Orange.

McCann, of Daytona Beach, joined the Daytona Tortugas as their community relations and outside events manager in November 2019. He previously was a journalist. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

FUTURES Foundation is a nonprofit founded in 1985 to support Volusia County Schools. Its mission is to engage business and civic leaders to promote and achieve educational excellence for Volusia County Public Schools. The Foundation’s 29-member board of directors consists of area business and civic leaders who direct

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The 2021 legislative session ended Friday, April 30, with a traditional hanky-dropping ceremony in the fourth-floor rotunda of the Florida Capitol.

Lawmakers took up a wide range of issues during the 60-day session, along with passing a budget for the fiscal year that will start July 1.

Here are 10 big issues from the session:

BUDGET Buoyed by billions of dollars in federal stimulus money and rebounding state tax revenues, lawmakers passed a record $101.5 billion budget for the upcoming year. The budget includes such things as bonuses for first responders, providing services to more people with developmental and intellectual disabilities and addressing effects of rising sea levels. Also, lawmakers scrapped proposed cuts in Medicaid funding for hospitals and nursing homes.

COVID-19 Lawmakers passed a measure aimed at shielding businesses and health-care providers from lawsuits related to people getting sick or dying from COVID-19.

Also, they approved making permanent a ban on COVID-19 vaccine “passports.” Gov. Ron DeSantis in early April issued an executive order to prohibit businesses from requiring people to show they had been vaccinated to gain entry.

EDUCATION As part of a more than two-decade effort by Republicans to expand school choice, lawmakers passed an overhaul of school-voucher programs. In part, the plan would increase an income threshold so that a family of four making nearly $100,000 a year could qualify for vouchers. In higher education, the Senate considered controversial changes in the Bright Futures scholarship program before largely backing away amid an outcry from students and other opponents.

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Ten big issues from the 2021 Florida Legislative session ELECTIONS Despite fierce opposition from Democrats, the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a wide-ranging elections bill that includes placing new restrictions on voting by mail.

Supporters said the bill, which addresses issues such as the use of drop boxes for mail-in ballots, is needed to ensure election security and integrity. But Democrats contended that it is designed to place barriers to voting and likened it to measures aimed at Black voters in the Jim Crow era.

INSURANCE After years of debating the issue, lawmakers approved ending Florida’s no-fault auto insurance system. Under the bill, motorists would no longer be required to carry personalinjury protection, or PIP, coverage. They would have to carry bodily-injury coverage. Also, lawmakers approved changes in the property-insurance system, including allowing larger annual rate increases for customers of the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

PROTESTS

SOCIAL MEDIA After former President Donald Trump was blocked from Twitter and Facebook early this year, Republican lawmakers passed a plan to crack down on social-media companies. The plan, a priority of DeSantis, includes barring social-media companies from removing political candidates from the companies’ platforms and threatens hefty fines. Critics questioned the bill’s constitutionality and described it as a “big government” move.

TOLL ROADS Two years after then-Senate President Bill Galvano pushed through a law to build and expand toll roads, lawmakers largely scrapped the plan during this year’s session. That included nixing the idea of building a toll road from Collier County to Polk County. Lawmakers, however, decided to move forward with projects such as extending Florida’s Turnpike west from Wildwood to connect with the Suncoast Parkway.

TRANS ATHLETES

TAXES In a major win for business groups, lawmakers passed a plan that will require out-ofstate online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases made

by Floridians. The roughly $1 billion a year generated by the change will be used to replenish a depleted unemployment trust fund. Later, it will be used to offset a cut in a commercial rent tax. Florida businesses have long argued online retailers enjoyed an advantage because they didn’t collect sales taxes.

After the issue appeared dead in the Senate, lawmakers in the final days of the session passed a bill that would ban transgender female athletes from competing on high-school girls’ and college women’s sports teams. While bill supporters said transgender female athletes could have a physical advantage, opponents said the bill targets youths already at risk for suicide, ostracism and bullying.

DeSantis quickly signed a controversial law-andorder measure that was sparked by nationwide protests last year after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The law creates a new crime of “mob intimidation,” enhances riot-related penalties and makes it harder for local officials to reduce spending on law enforcement. But opponents said the measure is rooted in racism and would give police too much leeway to arrest peaceful protesters.

WHAT DIED IN SESSION? From abortion restrictions to vacation rentals, many high-profile bills died Friday when the Florida legislative session ended. Here are 10 issues that did not make it through the Legislature.

ABORTION The House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would have prevented doctors from providing abortions that women seek because of tests showing fetuses will have disabilities. The bill about so-called “disability abortions” threatened criminal penalties against doctors, but the Senate did not take it up.

ALIMONY A long-running debate about overhauling Florida’s alimony laws will have to wait at least another year. While the House approved alimony changes, the controversial issue stalled in the Senate.

The proposal, as in the past, sought to eliminate what is known as permanent

alimony and reduce the duration of alimony.

BRIGHT FUTURES The Senate ran into noisy opposition from students and other critics when it started moving forward with a proposal to make eligibility for Bright Futures scholarships contingent on students selecting degree programs likely to lead to employment. The Senate ultimately backed away from the idea.

DATA PRIVACY Business groups breathed easier Friday with the demise of a bill that would have given consumers more control over personal data collected by companies.

The bill, backed by House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, faced heavy opposition from an army of business lobbyists.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA More than four years after Florida voters broadly legalized medical marijuana, lawmakers let die a proposal that would have limited THC

potency in smokable mairjuana and other cannabis products. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive component in cannabis.

PENSION SYSTEM An effort by the Senate to overhaul the state retirement system fizzled as it was not taken up by the House. The Senate proposal would have blocked new government employees from enrolling in the traditional pension system and required them to enroll in a 401(k)-style plan.

TERM LIMITS A renewed attempt by the House to impose eight-year term limits on county school board members died in the Senate. The proposal, which has emerged repeatedly in recent years, would have asked voters in 2022 to pass a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of school board members.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS After massive job losses

during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Senate backed increasing unemployment benefits from a maximum of $275 a week to $375 a week.

But the House did not take up the proposal, which also faced opposition from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

UNION DUES Public-employee unions staved off attempts by Republican lawmakers to place new restrictions on union dues. The proposals included adding a step in which government employers would have had to confirm with workers that they want dues taken out of their pay before the deductions could start.

VACATION RENTALS Bills aimed at further restricting local governments from regulating vacation rental properties did not make it through the House and Senate. The issue has long been controversial, as cities and counties have fought the additional restrictions on their authority.

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FUTURES recognizes ‘Turn Around’ recipients The students are recognized for dramatic improvement in grades, behavior, attitude and citizenship.

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FUTURES Foundation for Volusia County Schools announced its 2021 Turn Around student recipients during its annual recognition event May 4, at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.

Seventy-four middle and high school students were recognized in front of more than 200 parents, family members, principals, district administrators, and FUTURES Board members.

Each spring, FUTURES invites all middle and high school principals and their school teams to select a recipient from each grade level per school who has shown a dramatic improvement in grades, behavior, attitude and/or citizenship. Each student received a personalized certificate signed by Superintendent Dr. Scott Fritz and School Board Chairman Linda Cuthbert. Mainstreet Community Bank and the Daytona Tortugas assisted in sponsoring the evening which provided a meal for all attendees.

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Donut stop running JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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onuts, running and a good cause.

The Ormond Beach Police Athletic League held its annual Donut Dash 5K on Saturday, April 24. A total of 198 runners completed the race, which began at the Trails Shopping Center and looped through the Trails and Tomoka Oaks neighborhoods. Participants received a medal, T-shirt, and of course, donuts at designated stations, courtesy of Krispy Kreme.

The proceeds of the event benefited OBPAL’s youth programs.

OBPAL was established in 1996, and helps about 800 children, teens and their families every year through its programs that aim at fostering positive relationships between youth and police officers, according to the city website.

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Erika Kazma, of Port Orange, and Katie Perkins, of Daytona Beach, hold up their medals.

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Christian Berberich, of DeLand, is the first runner to cross the finish line with a time of 18:28.

Christian Berberich, of DeLand — 18:28 Shannon Hickey, of Ormond Beach —19:39 Rick Cordes, of Daytona Beach — 19:56 David Perkins, of Daytona Beach — 20:29 Noah Anderson, of Ponce Inlet — 20:42 Juan Luna, of Palm Coast — 20:44

Kennethh Maio, of Ormond Beach — 21:13 Stefanie Braun, of Daytona Beach — 21:25 Braedyn Wormeck, of Flagler Beach — 21:26 Monica Hickey, of Ormond Beach — 21:41 Race results courtesy of RaceSmith.com.

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