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+ PLUS >> Precinct-by-precinct breakdown of county races, 6-7A. LOCAL SPORTS SPORTS Preparing Van Vleck Tigers open for Harbor shoots a 35 tonight at Freight for CHS Gainesville See Page 8A See Page 3B See Page 1B THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Assistant DePratter wins it public works Recount, rescheduled from Friday, goes to incumbent. percent) to Kazmierski’s 793 votes (49.7 director post percent). By TONY BRITT the County Commission District 2 elec- During Wednesday’s recount, which was [email protected] tion, earning a second commission term originally slated for Friday, both candidates is no more following a recount Wednesday evening. collected one additional vote. Depratter Rusty DePratter eked out a seven-vote At Tuesday night’s election DePratter, City avoids controversy win over challenger Marc Kazmierski in the incumbent, collected 800 votes (50.2 DEPRATTER continued on 8A by eliminating position. By TONY BRITT [email protected] Following months of controversy over whether a candidate for city assistant public works director was the victim of racial discrimination, city officials have decided to eliminate the problem by eliminating the post. Controversy arose in April when Public Works Director Thomas Henry began conducting interviews on his own to fill the position but did not grant an interview to Corey Williams, a black employee of the public works depart- ment. Williams’ brother, Bishop Ronald W. Williams II, claimed Corey Williams was Van flips from not given an interview because he was T-bone on US 90 black. He further claimed his brother Photos by EMILY BUCHANAN/Lake City Reporter was harassed by Henry. A hiring committee, including the Law enforcement and emergency personnel peer into a white Ford van that was flipped on its side during an accident Wednesday around city’s HR department, was later formed. 3:45 p.m. When the Ford crossed U.S. 90 near the school board administrative office, it was T-boned by an oncoming Jeep heading west on U.S. 90, according to emergency officials on the scene. Injuries were minor, officials said. ASSISTANT continued on 3A Report: Man told operator A partnership for the future he’d bring DEO director tours Columbia High’s gun to office academy programs. By SARAH LOFTUS By SARAH LOFTUS [email protected] [email protected] A Fort White man was arrested Florida Department of Monday after he told a Clay Electric Economic Opportunity repre- customer service associate on the sentatives and other state offi- phone that someone needed to talk cials visited Columbia High to him or he would School on Wednesday to learn come to the office about its many academy pro- with a gun, accord- grams, including its logistics ing to a Columbia and engineering ones. DEO County Sheriff’s Executive Director Jesse Office arrest report. Panuccio said the department’s Ronald Wayne goal is to make sure schools are Boudrieau, 69, of teaching their students business Boudrieau EMILIY BUCHANAN/Lake City Reporter 168 SW Freedom Jesse Panuccio, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity executive director, talks with Columbia High skills and are forming partner- Court, was charged with obscene School students Wednesday about the special programs the school offers, such as logistics, welding, health ships with local businesses to communication and violating his occupations and auto mechanics. The programs help prepare students to enter the workforce after graduation. help students planning to go probation, the report says. straight into the workforce get A manager of Clay Electric called jobs. The academies also offer CCSO to report Boudrieau’s threat- students planning to go to col- ening phone calls. The report says lege a chance to figure out what Boudrieau called the company to field they’re interested in. figure out why his bill was so high, Panuccio and the other offi- and the operator explained each cials there said CHS is defi- charge to him and told him that nitely accomplishing those since he was behind on bills, he goals through its programs. was being charged extra fees. The The school has partnerships report says he seemed to under- with Timco Aviation Services, stand. However, he then hung up Plum Creek Timber Company, and called back to speak with a Inc. and other local businesses. supervisor. Before getting connect- Panuccio stressed how import- ed to the supervisor, he told the ant it is for schools to have operator he would have to go rob those kinds of professional rela- a convenience store to pay his bill. SARAH LOFTUS/Lake City Reporter tionships because they provide Boudrieau then said he didn’t want Tyson Ellis (right) hands a smoothie to networking opportunities for to go over the bill and used vulgar Andrew Holmes Wednesday at CHS’s students. language. According to the report, the newest addition, Columbia Cafe. Business SARAH LOFTUS/Lake City Reporter “We want businesses inter- operator told him he needed to calm teacher Makeba Murphy said the cafe is run CHS engineering and math teacher Celena Crews shows acting with schools,” he said. by students who are in the business and local business leaders two of the robots Columbia High OBSCENE continued on 3A entrepreneurship academy. students have been working on during a tour Wednesday. DEO continued on 8A Vol. 140, No. 147 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Graphs . 6A SPORTS Obituaries . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO Lady Tigers open season THE REPORTER: 94 68 Advice & Comics . 4B against Lafayette today, 1B. Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 3B Fax: 752-9400 Mostly sunny, 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage TALLAHASSEE great impact on the proper administration more than 20 legal decisions against state Tampa police spokeswoman Laura lorida’s highest court is being asked of justice in Florida.” same-sex marriage restrictions since the McElroy said the department’s protocol to decide whether or not the state’s A panel of judges with the Lakeland U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key regarding a child locked in a car is to F ban on gay marriage is constitutional. based appeals court earlier this summer part of the federal Defense of Marriage always send an officer and fire rescue to In an unusual decision, the state’s 2nd rejected a request to forward the case up Act last year. the scene. The dispatcher didn’t even ask District Court of Appeal on Wednesday the state Supreme Court. But that ruling the location of the vehicle. asked the Florida Supreme Court to settle was overturned in a 10-3 decision by the Police: 911 botches call “That’s not how we do business,” the question due to “great public impor- entire appeals court. McElroy said. tance.” If the high court takes up the Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about child locked in car She said disciplinary action could range case, it could result in having the issue has asked judges to stop ruling on TAMPA — A 911 dispatcher is in trou- from a written reprimand to a suspension. settled even before the U.S. Supreme same-sex marriage cases until the U.S. ble over his response to a mother who Dees said she was calm while talking to Court acts. Supreme Court decides whether states called for help after her 10-month-old son the dispatcher, but after she realized the The ruling is connected to a can ban gay marriage. But her request accidentally locked himself in her car, police weren’t coming, panic set in. The Hillsborough County divorce case involv- has not been ruled on yet. Bondi’s office police said. boy had crawled out of his car seat and ing a same-sex couple who had been was not involved in the Hillsborough Shana Dees said she put her son Jack was starting to become lethargic. married in Massachusetts but since relo- County case, but a spokeswoman said the in his car seat Saturday afternoon and An off-duty police officer at the drug cated to the Tampa area. Their petition to ruling is being reviewed now by the attor- when she went to move a shopping cart, store called 911 and spoke to a different dissolve their marriage was rejected by ney general. Jack hit the lock button on the keychain dispatcher who sent help. a Florida judge who noted that state law Voters approved Florida’s ban in 2008. remote, The Tampa Tribune reported. In the meantime, a nurse grabbed a does not recognize gay marriage. But judges in four Florida counties — She called 911 because it was hot inside wrench from the store’s utility closet and “Resolution of the constitutional Palm Beach, Monroe, Miami-Dade and the vehicle and said she was shocked by smashed the window. By then, Jack had questions will no doubt impact far more Broward— have overturned the ban. Last the dispatcher’s response. been inside the car for 15 minutes. The individuals than the two involved here,” week a federal judge also overturned “We won’t be able to try and gain nurse got the boy out and poured cool states the unsigned opinion. “And there the ban. No marriage licenses have been access to the car unless the child is in water over Jack’s head. can be little doubt that until the consti- issued so far as the cases have either some kind of distress,” Dees said the dis- Jack has rebounded, but he’s no longer tutional questions are finally resolved by been appealed or judges have issued a patcher told her.

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