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Newspaper
Destin Log
Location
Destin, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1985
Page
19
Steve Humphries reports Harrison Marshall, CFSW membership chair, urged community planning and input at the Kiwanis Club. He noted possible incorporation and feasibility study outcomes, stressing that decisions hinge on a responsible, planned approach to improve South Walton.
Walton County commissioners granted a variance to Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative and Gulf Power for aerial lines after a new ordinance required performance bonds and permit and inspection fees for utilities using county right of ways. The boards delayed any amendment pending legal review by County Attorney George Ralph Miller who warned the change might face court challenges.
Griffin outlines a road department creation costing about forty thousand dollars. He believes the county can hire an engineer within six months and a commissioner could lead the department with a qualified road foreman already on the payroll. He emphasizes immediate action and even offers to serve as commissioner to head the effort.
The text outlines three work categories: emergency service calls, job orders, and routine maintenance. It emphasizes planning by priority, detailed cost records for all jobs, and job descriptions with grades and pay scales. It also states personnel and equipment may be assigned beyond a single district.
Administrative supervisor to appoint department heads with board consent and serve at pleasure. He shall employ staff under appropriation and code, administer county services, analyze trends in services and finances, and review programs of boards and agencies, reporting and recommending to the board.
Griffin notes the county has multiple job descriptions across administrative planning grants building civil defense maintenance shop environmental control paving and parks. He proposes a unified pay grade schedule to standardize wages for each job, citing two or three existing scales.
The South Walton cable company seeks to buy a tower site behind the station and requires an easement for access. It pledges to provide free cable service to the fire stations EMT post and the sheriff substation as part of the deal.
The fire district agreed to a written easement allowing space on its tower for communications equipment if the company also paved the easement and seven additional parking spaces.
A Gulf Pine Association spokesman warns against Gulf Pines being bypassed as SWU studies expansion east of Mack Bayou. Main says any system east of Mack Bayou would stand alone while the Gulf Pines group seeks sewage commitments. Louis F. Bodee and SWU board member will meet to discuss as SWU funds a $60,000 Gulf Pines water project.
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