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Board to Consider Grant Plans Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 Golf: Webb Simpson pulls off 1-shot victory /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUSCOUNTY & next morning HIGH 93 Mostly sunny, LOW stray afternoon storm. 70 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JUNE 22, 2020 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 125 ISSUE 258 NEWS BRIEFS Board to consider grant plans Citrus COVID-19 n WHAT: Citrus County Board information County staff: 600 businesses fit criteria to receive funds of County Commissioners meeting Six new positive cases MIKE WRIGHT received from the federal CARES less. Businesses can have more were reported in Citrus Staff writer Act to assist small businesses that part-time workers so long as the n WHEN: 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 23. County since the latest were closed or restricted during total weekly hours of all employ- n WHERE: Courthouse, 110 N. FDOH update. No new Citrus County businesses that April’s stay-at-home order. ees does not exceed 1,000. Apopka Ave., Inverness hospitalizations or deaths were ordered shut by Gov. Ron The county staff identified Oliver estimated about $2 mil- n were reported. To date in DeSantis in response to the about 600 businesses that fit the lion could be used toward those WATCH: Spectrum Channel the county, 189 people COVID-19 pandemic would be el- criteria of businesses that were small businesses. 643 or online at www. citrusclerk.org have tested positive, igible for $5,000 grants under a ordered closed during the pan- As recommended, not all the program recommended by the demic. They include restaurants, 34 have been hospital- CARES money will go for small n OF NOTE: All courthouse county administrative staff. bars, tattoo parlors, nail salons businesses. The county would use ized and 12 have died. visitors are screened for Commissioners on Tuesday are and barbershops. some of the funds for a 25% match temperature. Anyone with a expected to discuss and approve a The funds, as recommended, on coronavirus-related expense Food drive to temperature of 100.4 or program to disburse up to would be eligible to businesses reimbursement from the Federal higher will be denied entry. benefit SOS $6.5 million in funds the county with 25 full-time employees or See BOARD/Page A5 The Esther Chapter of the Daughters of the King at Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church in Le- canto is asking for food donations to benefit SOS Support Center, which feeds more than 7,000 families in Citrus County each month. Sheriff candidates talk issues They will be having a drive-thru food drop off from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, June 23 at Shepherd of the Hills Epis- copal Church, 2540 West Norvell Bryant Highway (County Road 486), Lecanto. The food collected on Tuesday will be taken to SOS on Wednesday in time for distribution on Thursday. Also, they will have coolers on hand to store refrigerated or even fro- zen items. — From staff reports POLL ONLINE POLL: Your choice? With the recent spike over the past two weeks in COVID-19 positive cases, is it time for concern? A. Yes. We must take MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle file Members of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office work at the scene of a fatal shooting on South Monroe Street in Beverly Hills. One male victim measures to control the was shot and died at the scene during a reported argument the morning of March 25, 2020. Four candidates for Citrus County Sheriff met spread. with the editorial board on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 to make a case for their candidacy. B. No. As long as deaths and hospitalizations do not spike we are OK. The four Republican sheriff candidates sat down individually with the Citrus County Chronicle C. Yes. If people aren’t editorial board this week and discussed why they should be the county’s top law enforcement officer. required to be safe then they won’t following This is what they said. — by staff writer Fred Hiers recommended guidelines. Patrick Crippen Mel Eakley Michael Klyap Jr. Mike Prendergast D. No. We are testing n On Citrus County Sheriff’s n On community relation- n On employee morale and n On why voters should re- more, so there will be Office morale: Crippen says ship: Eakley told the pay: A Citrus County Sheriff ’s elect him: “Because I’ve done more positives. that he is re- Chronicle Office deputy exactly what To vote, visit www. latable and that policing beginning an- I said I would chronicleonline.com. the CCSO’s today cannot nual salary do,” Prender- Scroll down the home turnover of be accom- currently is gast told the page and look for the 70 employees plished by $38,064 with a newspaper’s poll box in the right- since Sheriff law enforce- $2,000 signing editorial hand column. Mike Pren- ment alone, bonus. Klyap board. Results will appear dergast took but rather by described it When run- over the a working as “... poor” ning for sher- next Monday. Find last Patrick Mel Michael Mike agency three relationship and said dep- iff during the week’s online poll Crippen Eakley Klyap Jr. Prendergast years ago between the uties de- 2016 election, results./Page A3 shows there’s a problem. Citrus County Sheriff ’s Office served more money. Prendergast said he talked to INDEX Crippen said he’s met with and a multitude of social ser- “I want to put a union in” county residents and their pri- deputies and the biggest com- vice organizations. which can negotiate salaries ority for him was addressing Classifieds ............... B6 plaint they share with him is “Those are the key rela- and give CCSO employees sta- illegal drugs and traffic. Comics .................... B5 not low pay, but wanting “fair tionships that started to dwin- bility and predictability with Since his election, Prender- Crossword ................ B8 and balanced” discipline. dle away or no longer exist their salaries, Klyap said. gast said drug arrests have in- Editorial ....................A8 “The leadership is lack- (when Prendergast took of- “If you honestly believe in creased 180% and his agency Entertainment ...........A4 ing,” he said of Prendergast, fice),” Eakley said. your people you shouldn’t be has overseen a decrease in Horoscope ................A4 adding that Prendergast, with n On law enforcement afraid of a union,” Klyap said. traffic accidents through edu- n Lottery Numbers ...... B3 more than 30 years of military efforts: Eakley said if elected On community policing: cation and citations. policing experience, lacks the he would re-implement Klyap said deputies need to As for traffic, in 2017, Pren- Lottery Payouts ........ B3 experience for civilian law intelligence-led policing. be given the time to park dergast’s deputies issued TV Listings ............... B4 enforcement and setting Intelligence-led policing their cruisers and walk com- 13,414 traffic warnings, about policy. incorporates crime trends munities and engage people the average for the prior two n On race relations: Crip- and data, allowing police in their neighborhoods. years. By 2018, the number pen said the county is lucky decision makers to allocate Knowing the people in the jumped to 20,332. During See CRIPPEN/Page A5 See EAKLEY/Page A5 See KLYAP/Page A5 See PRENDERGAST/Page A9 FLORIDA’S 2020 FASTEST GROWING TEMPO GOLF CAR 2484 W. Dunnellon Rd. STORE Dunnellon, Fl • Largest Selection % $ 352-462-7030 • Best Warranty 0 for 48 145 $ • AARP Savings months month 6888 SunshineStateGolfCarts.com Sunshine Edition... Loaded From The Ground Up ... 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In the July 20, 2020. a new boat ramp in Citrus There will be four Universal this race, then all voters, regard- races for Sheriff and Property Registering to vote or chang- County, where would you put it? Primary Contests (UPC) on the less of party affiliation, would Appraiser, only Republicans ing party may be done online at A. North of the Crystal River Aug. 18, 2020 Primary Election. have an opportunity to vote in will be voting in the primary www.votecitrus.com. Mall. (35.5%) It is very important that voters this election. because there are no party af- Registration forms are avail- B. Off Fort Island Trail. (9.9%) understand what that means On the Citrus County Primary filiation candidates for both able online, at the public li- and why there is a Universal Ballot the four races where all the offices and therefore the win- braries, government offices C. Off Ozello Trail. (7.2%) Primary. candidates are Republican are ner will be determined in the and the Supervisor of Elections D. In Homosassa. (20.8%) The 1998 Referendum No. 11 County Commission District 3, General Election. Office at 1500 N. Meadowcrest E. On the lakes in Inverness. placed on the ballot by the Flor- County Commission District 5, The nonpartisan District 2 Blvd.
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