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00006-23-2010 ( Pdf ) [email protected] For 18 years the voice of Niceville, Bluewater Bay and Valparaiso TThhee BBaayy BBeeaaccoonn 18 Pages, 2 Sections, 2 Inserts Wednesday, June 23, 2010 50¢ UP Welcoming ‘Wall That Heals’ Bay bridge OMING CThursday, 6:30 p.m. The Sand Dunes Chapter of Embroiderers’ Guild of may tap America’s summer stitch-in schedule continues on Thursday, June 24, 6:30-9 p.m., at the First United BP for fall Methodist Church of Niceville. Visitors are wel- come. Saturday, 8 and 9:40 a.m. in revenue The Red Cross Fourth Annual CPR By Mike Griffith Traffic over the Mid-Bay Saturday Beacon Correspondent Bridge has declined from the will take The Mid-Bay Bridge same time last year, and so has place in Authority may become the latest toll revenue, despite a toll Building K, in a long line of governmental increase. The Mid-Bay Bridge Northwest bodies seeking compensation Authority raised tolls by 50 cents Florida State from British Petroleum for the for most vehicles June 1. College, June 26. Sessions will company’s disastrous Gulf oil be held 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., spill. Please see BRIDGE, page A-8 9:40 a.m.-2:10 p.m. and 11:20 a.m.-3:50 p.m. The training is for ages 10 and older. The cost is $10. Students will receive a book and a certificate upon completion of the physical and written test. To register, visit YourRedCross.org or call 800- 773-7620 ext. 0. Saturday, 8 a.m. Beacon photo Professional fisherman Mid-Bay Bridge traffic was down again in June. Pictured, Larry R. Gaines, Valparaiso, northbound traffic at tollbooths on Sunday. will hold his fifth annual Youth Fishing Who’s in event June 26, 8-noon at the Destin Commons Pond behind the Bass Pro Shop. All ages up to charge here? 16 years are welcome. Bring A half-sized replica of the Vietnam your rod/reel or cane poles Veterans War Memorial that traveled to and enjoy a day with your Okaloosa County last week attracted an Valparaiso in gas board tiff youth and the local pros. estimated 10,000 visitors at the county fairgrounds. Above, with a 30- by 60-foot Monday, 6 a.m. American flag, firefighters welcomed a By Del Lessard Join the ROTC students at caravan escorting the “Wall That Heals” Beacon Staff Writer Northwest Florida State as it traveled through Niceville June 15. Right, former Army helicopter pilot There may not be enough chairs to go College for physical training Richard Smith of Shalimar searches for around at today’s Okaloosa Gas District board this summer, and get into names of fallen comrades on the wall meeting. shape free of charge as the Thursday. Story, A-5. Valparaiso city officials say they fired its program representative to the district and appointed a opens its Beacon photos by Thomas J. Monigan replacement, effective June 1. workout and Del Lessard But Charles Reid, the man city officials routine to the public. Charles Reid Please see WHOʼS, page A-9 Every Monday through Aug. 19, 6-7 a.m. at the Niceville campus. Info: Capt. David Avallone, Candidates scarce for local offices 729-6022 or [email protected]. By Del Lessard unopposed the two posed of five unpaid directors general election ballot. Beacon Staff Writer Saturday, 10:30 a.m. for reelec- open seats serving staggered four-year Benegas was appointed to her Voters will have a say in fill- tion. on the terms. current seat earlier this year to Singer-songwriter Kathleen ing only one of seven open posi- There Bluewater On the county level, two fill a vacancy created when a Gibson will appear in the tions on three local-government was no Bay Okaloosa County judges and one director stepped down in Niceville City Council elective boards in November. competition Municipal school board members won midterm. Chambers across from the Candidate qualifying ended for three Services reelection without opposition. For the other North Bay Library. Gibson entertains and Friday. seats on the Benefit Both state legislators repre- Fire Commission seat, Group educates all ages with award On Nov. 2 voters in the North East Unit senting the Twin Cities area were 2, incumbent Janet B. Santner winning music and stories. Bay Fire District will choose Niceville (MSBU). unopposed for reelection. was the only candidate to qual- Info: kathleengibson.com between Steven Strait and Fire Karen Benegas The seats Steven Strait North Bay Fire District ify and thus won reelection Commission, with all three will be without opposition. Calendar, B-6. incumbent Karen Benegas to fill Banegas and Strait both one of two seats up for election incumbents unchallenged for filled by appointment. qualified for the Group 4 seat in 2010. The incumbent for the election. All three nonpartisan bodies, and will thus be on the Nov. 2 Please see SCARCE, page A-8 other seat, Janet B. Santner, was No one qualified to run for each with taxing power, are com- Okaloosa hires oil-boom firm By Mike Griffith Commander Martha LaGuardia, a Beacon Correspondent liaison officer working with coun- Okaloosa County has hired a ty officials. Swimmers and oil company to help officials figure Although some oil had already booms in the clear out where to put floating booms to appeared on Okaloosa Island emerald waters of protect inland waters from oil beaches by Thursday morning, East Pass Thursday. gushing from the British none had made it as far east as No oil was in evi- Petroleum well. The consulting Destin, said Wolfe and Villani. dence. job may cost as much $500,000, Placement of oil booms was still underway at the East Pass, Wolfe Beacon photo which the county says it will try to by Mike Griffith recoup from BP. said, and the county has contract- Okaloosa County Public Safety ed with James Lee Witt Director Dino Villani and Associates, a coastal engineering Emergency Medical Services chief firm, to determine the optimum Ken Wolfe briefed emergency- placement of booms and other management officials Thursday in equipment to try and prevent oil Niceville on efforts to protect the from entering Choctawhatchee East Pass near Destin from the Bay and other inland waters. intrusion of oil. First attempts to The contract with Witt may string booms across the pass cost the county up to a half mil- ended in failure, they said. lion dollars or more, Villani said, Their briefing was followed by an expense that the county another from U.S. Coast Guard Please see HIRES, page A-9 For 18 years the voice of Niceville, Bluewater Bay and Valparaiso Page A-2 T HE B AY B EACON Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Hughes explains budget as few watch By Mike Griffith Commissioners (BCC). sion. This arrangement, Hughes sion, nor to his overseers at the MSTU/MSBU & Beacon Correspondent In addition, he said, the Tax said, gives the Tax Collector Water Management Florida Department of Revenue. $3,526,380 During a public briefing June Collector’s revenue is not considerable independence from 1% Fire Districts Of the tax money collected by Water Management 15 at Niceville City Hall attend- derived from taxes set by the Tax influence by other government $15,654,439 Property his office, Hughes said, about 58 ed by fewer than a half-dozen Collector, but is based on a com- agencies, although the Tax 7% taxes percent is disbursed to the people, Okaloosa County Tax mission Collector’s budget is subject to Municipalities, collected on Okaloosa School District. The $24,265,151 Collector Chris Hughes talked earned from review and approval by the 10% behalf of Board of County Commissioners about his budget for the coming the taxes Florida Department of Revenue. local receives about 24 percent, while fiscal year, how it compares with collected on The Tax Collector’s Office governments municipalities get 10 percent, the current budget, and new behalf of all employs about 68 people, locat- School Board in Okaloosa fire districts get 7 percent, and $136,214,124 Board of County County. services being offered by the Tax the other ed at offices in Niceville, Fort 58% independent water management Commissioners Collector’s Office. The briefing taxing Walton Beach, Destin, $55,768,458 districts and MSBUs get a com- authorities Crestview, and on Eglin Air 24% Okaloosa bined one percent. was one of several such meet- County Tax ings Hughes held at various in the coun- Force Base. Some of the Tax Collector The Fiscal Year 2011 Tax places throughout the county last ty, such as Collector’s services are also Collector’s budget will be week. the BCC, available by phone at 651-7300 $6,193,868, up 13.37 percent The Tax Collector’s Office, independent Chris Hughes or 689-5700, or online at from the FY 2010 budget of said Hughes, is different from fire districts, and Municipal www.okaloosatax.com. $5,463,245, said Hughes. The most other county government Services Benefit Units Hughes said none of his state standards, for completing last year for awarding secretive increase is due to several causes, agencies. It is a “constitutional” (MSBUs). employees is being given salary training leading to professional five-figure bonuses to employ- he said. One of these is the office, he said, meaning that the Any commission money not increases or performance bonus- certifications in their job skills. ees, a number of whom had con- requirement to hire extra people Tax Collector is elected by coun- actually spent by the Tax es in FY 2011, although some Insurance costs for employ- tributed to his political cam- to provide driver’s license serv- ty voters and not accountable to Collector in any given year is may receive “certification ees are also going up, he said.
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