Walton County Eyes User Fees to Ease Trash Costs
Walton County planner Pat Blackshear floated a user fee approach to fund a $156,500 South Walton garbage operation for FY 1983-84, instead of raising taxes. The plan covers transfer equipment, staffing, and temporary use of Blue Mountain landfill while awaiting a south county waste reduction center, with DER permitting delays and site issues affecting the project.
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Vanita Trippe
Walton County
South County
Pat Blackshear
Blackshear
Blue Mountain
South Walton
State Department of Environmental Regulation
North County
County Dixon Disposal Company
DER
Board Overdrawn On Roads Eyed Gas Tax Remedy
Walton County commissioners face overruns in multiple road and bridge budget categories with only 65 percent of the year completed. Comptroller Catherine King warns of potential debt over $100,000 unless a remedy is found, possibly using remaining gas tax funds and a budget amendment. Each district shows deficits and varied remaining balances as the board weighs shifting funds from underspent areas.
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Vanita Trippe
Walton County
Catherine King
King
District Five
Billy McLean
District Two
Sam Pridgen
Commissioners’ Office
Commission
Dernard Owens
McLean
Pridgen
Coffeen Preserve Back To Nature Education Plan
Walton County officials and the Florida Sierra Club outline use of Coffeen Nature Preserve for outside-the-classroom lessons. A $3,500 DOE grant funds an environmental awareness program for Four Mile Village, with high school field trips, a library exhibit space, and teacher training to integrate the preserve into the curriculum.
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Vanita Trippe
Florida
The
Sierra Club
South Walton
South Walton County
Walton County
Teddy DeShazo
Four Mile Village
DeShazo
State Department of Education
Freeport High School
DOE
Dorothy Coffeen
Cindy Casper
Taxpayers Stance Shifts Between Tax Caps Groups
Walton County Taxpayers Association backs Proposition 13 and considers Citizens Choice if 13 fails to reach a statewide referendum in 1984. The group supports voter approval of either plan to force conservative fiscal control, with Proposition 13 likely on the 1984 ballot.
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Vanita Trippe
Walton County, Taxpayers Association
Citizens’ Choice
Board of Directors
Association
Chuck Maynard
Citizens’Choice
Man Charged in Woods Fire Near Santa Rosa Beach
Fort Walton Beach man John Baker of 441 Racetrack Road faces misdemeanor charges for careless wood burning on his property along State Road 393 in Santa Rosa Beach. State forestry investigator Archie Balkomb says Baker was burning trash when a fire spread across more than 65 surrounding acres in the June incident. Charges were filed June 22 after the June 18 fire.
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Fort Walton Beach
South Walton County
John Baker
Racetrack Road
Santa Rosa Beach
Archie Balkomb
State Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
Baker
Talley’s Folly at Walton Gazebo July 16
Tim Woodin and Diana Carter star in Talley’s Folly a two person comedy at 8 30 p m July 16 at Seaside Gazebo on Highway 30 A between Grayton Beach State Park and Seagrove Beach produced and directed by Gary Anderson for the National Conservatory Theater admission five dollars per person
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Talley’s Folly
Tim Woodin
Diana Carter
Seaside
Gary Anderson
National Conservatory Theater
Grayton Beach State Park
Seagrove Beach
Walton County Sees High Income Growth in 1981
Walton County posted one of Florida's strongest income growth rates in 1981 per University of West Florida data. The county's average income reached 9512 dollars, placing it among the top 12 in state increases, though Citrus rose 21 percent to lead. Florida's overall income rose 14.7 percent to 103.5 billion, outpacing the national 11.7 percent gain.
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Walton County
Florida
University of West Florida
Walton
UWF
Bureau of Economic and Business Research
Citrus County
Indian River
Union
Charlotte
Putnam
Hernando
Collier
Martin
Taylor
Pasco
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Tom Moody
DEA
Pensacola
W.F. Miles
Bob Anderson
Owens
Ted DeShazo
Freeport High
Ken
Hulton
Freeport
Vicki Schofield
Coffeen Nature Preserve
Coffeen Preserve
Seach Briefe
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