Crime Report highlights several thefts and damages in Destin
February incidents include Edna Baker's two bicycles stolen from her front porch valued at 380 and tools missing from a utility tool box with no known entry. Damages at Joe Simons house on 12 Vera Cruz include a hole in drywall valued around 50. Additional thefts involve A-1 Electric tools, Crystal Beach Motel room 10 tools totaling 259, and a shattered window at Surf Hut, 301 Highway 98, with 200 in damage. Deputy Hank Garrett and Deputy Bobby Spencer investigated.
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Juanita Drive
Edna Baker
Baker
Hank Garrett
Charles Tooley
Joe Simons
Vera Cruz In
Destin
Sterling Hayes
Crystal Beach
Richard Ahnert
Surf Hut
Highway 98
Bobby Spencer
Lawsuit maps DWU taps and sewer backlogs in limbo
George French said sewer connections remain blocked until an iron clad state agreement. The suit claims the board refused to reserve 98 sewer tap ins at the Feb 12 meeting, keeping them for first come first served. A consent order with the DEA would free about 600 taps once a priority list is provided by Baskerville-Donovan. Judge Erwin Fleet will hear the case March 12 in Shalimar.
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George French
Fleshman
DER
State Department of Environmental Regulation
DWU
DEA
State Department
Stephen Holcomb
Baskerville-Donovan Engineers
Utility Board
Okaloosa County
Erwin Fleet
Shalimar Courthouse
Watkins
Don Anders
Destin City Council Set for Monday Night Meeting
Destin council will hear committee reports from General Services Airport Waterways Finance Public Safety and vote on first readings of three ordinances on boards commissions and panels and future developments and planning acts. Second and final readings of Ordinances 001 008 cover general provisions offense code and building rules. 7 p.m. Destin Community Center. Public invited.
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Destin City
General Services
Finance
Public Safety
Destin Community Center
Crisis Line Counselor Training Opens at Okaloosa Clinic
The Okaloosa Guidance Clinic invites volunteers over 18 to join a 12 session telephone crisis intervention training starting Thursday March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Clinic conference room. Training includes lectures, discussions, role playing, monitoring and supervised phone duty with experienced staff. Call 244 9191 for more information.
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Okaloosa
Cluding
Gas tax proposed for Okaloosa county roads shift
Fort Walton Beach leaders discuss a proposed road tax plan to fund county streets and bypass projects including the Hurlburt Road Bypass and Niceville Bypass. Gas tax backers say the levy would be paid by users and add about 2.4 million dollars per year, while opponents object to growth panel wording and local discretion.
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Anchors
Fort Walton Beach
Antioch Road
Walton County
Dernard Owens
Owens
Okaloosa
Growth panel recommendation passes despite dissenting planher
Okaloosa Commissioner Bill Peebles Jr and Walton Commissioner Raymond Hall left the room as the growth panel’s recommendation passed. Only dissent came from Okaloosa County planner Collier Houston, who called it a political decision to be made by the county commission reporting to taxpayers.
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Okaloosa
Bill Peebles Jr
Walton
Raymond Hall
Collier Houston
Tax ruling challenged. DOR seeks rehearing on property tax
Bill Townsend of the state Department of Revenue stated a petition for a re hearing has been filed regarding the Supreme Court ruling. He said no appeal date is set and the issue is whether the ruling applies prospectively or retroactively to personal property tax. Hilburn indicated non resident property owners in Destin will be exempt from ad valorem taxes on household goods as of 1985.
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Bill Townsend
State Department of Revenue
Supreme Court
Townsend
DOR
Ing
Destin
Hilburn
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