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Auctioneer: Paul Stefon AU4292 Auctioneer: Paul November 17, 2012 • Preview /Buyer Registration - 4:00 PM visit www.ALSNWF.com AB3119 AUCTION & LIQUIDATION SERVICES OF N.W. FLORIDA | (850) 916-4243 | 3044 Gulf Breeze Pkwy | Gulf Breeze FL 32563 Now Open in GULF BREEZE 2012 Winner nailloungeTM Pamper. Relax. Beautiful. GULF BREEZE | 217 Gulf Breeze Pkwy | 850.677.8160 PENSACOLA | 4405 Bayou Blvd. | 850.332.5593 www.naillounge.com November 15, 2012 YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER 75¢ Hundreds flocked to Wyrosdick: Pensacola A day to Beach on Sunday to show their support for Schools in veterans remember during the 25th annual Pensacola dire straits Beach Veterans sacrifice Day Parade. Looking to cut $3.5 million BY PAM BRANNON The Santa Gulf Breeze News Rosa County [email protected] School Dist- rict needs to make some cuts before the 2013-2014 school year kicks in or the district is projecting that it would go just over $3.5 million in the hole. The district is estimating that at the end of this school year there will be a fund balance of just over $9 million, or a 5.2 percent fund bal- ance. But the district financial officers expect that to be eaten up and the district to go in the hole next school year if something is not done to cut expenditures. If any school district falls below a 3 percent fund balance the state auto- See DISTRICT, Page 2A Photos by Mat Pellegrino/Gulf Breeze News Groups of supporters including local Boy Scout troops came out to the 25th annual Pensacola Beach Veterans Day Parade to hand out beads, candy and flags to those gathered. Photos by Mathew Pellegrino Olga Batova takes her oath to become City under contract to buy Tiger Point Golf Club an American citizen Friday. BY MAT PELLEGRINO Edwin “Buz” Eddy said, would allow a deal between other purchasers of conditional use application to allow ‘Proud to be Gulf Breeze News the city-owned South Santa Rosa the golf course that couldn’t come to the city’s expansion of their current [email protected] Utility System to expand the plant an agreement with the owners of the treatment facility. The final vote falls an American’ without having to build a completely golf course on the overall purchase,” to the Board of County separate facility on Bergan Road. Eddy said. Commissioners at their Dec. 13 The City of Gulf Breeze is contin- Eddy’s final proposal to the zon- According to city manager, the meeting. Russia native fulfills uing to push for an expansion of its ing board was for a conditional use city would only utilize three acres of At the zoning meeting, the board lifelong dream wastewater treatment facility onto request 12.5 acres; the city’s original the entire 46-acre golf course for voted 5 for and 2 against the city’s the Tiger Point Golf Club. application to the zoning board was expanded wastewater treatment expansion, with one member abstain- BY MAT PELLEGRINO When And last Thursday’s county zoning for conditional use for the entire 46- ponds. Eddy said that that pond will ing due to conflict of interest. The Gulf Breeze News Olga Batova meeting, a room divided was the only acre parcel. Land Development Code be directly near the current waste- vote results in a recommendation to [email protected] came to Gulf way to describe the standing-room- requires the conditional use agree- water facility. the county commissioners to allow Breeze over only gathering where several resi- ment since the property is in an R-1 The asking price on the Tiger the city to utilize the land under a 20 years ago, dents came to speak out against, and zoning district. Point Golf Club property is $2.6 mil- conditional use agreement. she never envisioned she would be where others to applaud, the city’s condi- “The reason for (the change), is lion, and the city bid nearly $2.9 mil- “Our offer is contingent upon she is today. tional use application. when we filed this conditional use lion on the property. That bid hinges receiving approval of this conditional The Russia native brought with her, her The expansion, city manager application, we were trying to bridge upon the county’s approval of the See ZONING, Page 3A See CITIZEN, Page 4A FRI 11/16 SAT 11/17 SUN 11/18 MON 11/19 Calendar 2A Crossword Puzzle 3B Obituaries 7A “Mailing Statement on Opinion Page” WEEKEND MSTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY SUNNY Classifieds 7C Flashbacks 2A Schools 6C THREE SECTIONS, 20 PAGES hi 69/lo 50 hi 67/lo 48 hi 67/lo 49 hi 68/lo 47 City Hall 4A Lifestyles 1B Sports 1-5C VOL. 11, NO. 46 Weather-plus rain: 0 % rain: 10 % rain: 0 % rain: 0 % Crime Report 2A Movie Listings 2B Talk of the Town 5A NOVEMBER 15, 2012 home! your directly to directly Call 850-932-8986 today Call 850-932-8986 today Enjoy your community paper mailed community your Enjoy GULF BREEZE NEWS (850) 932-8986 www.gulfbreezenews.com 2 A November 15, 2012 GULF BREEZE NEWS Zoning board OKs city’s T.P. sewer expansion Continued from page 1A on-course improvements according to Eddy. “By expanding incrementally on this site, Holley-Navarre Water use application,” Eddy said. “We don’t want we are able to provide a very wide buffer,” offers $2 million for to incur $20 million in debt for a new treat- Eddy said. “We have offered to residents in the area to plant sensibly to shield this loca- Hidden Creek Golf ment plant on Bergan Road…we don’t want Thursday, November 15 to swallow a huge amount of debt.” tion to its current view. Holley- BY PAM BRANNON Eddy said customer’s bills would go up “We plan to plant pine trees Navarre Regular School Board Meeting, 9 a.m., School Board & and live oaks in the area … Gulf Breeze News every month to accommodate the extra price. [email protected] Water system Superintendent’s Office Eddy said that if the city did not make an types of trees that don’t lose is purchasing offer on the course by the end of November, any sort of foliage during the the Club at Hidden Creek golf course and Library Advisory Board, 4 p.m., Jay Library, 5259 the course would essentially close by the end off seasons.” Country Club in Navarre. The water sys- Booker Lane, Jay The city manager also said of the year. The improvement readily need- tem made an offer to the Meadowbrook Public Notice for Navarre Street Traffic Calming that having the city-owned Eddy ed at the 55-year-old wastewater treatment Group last week to purchase the course to Analysis, 6 p.m., Gulf Breeze City Hall plant is the additional holding area for puri- golf course would allow resi- protect the water system’s reclaimed water fied effluent; the clarifiers and filters would dents to be rest assured that the course would spray fields on the course when Monday, November 19 not be needed until 2020 or 2021 when area be maintained properly. Meadowbrook was told it must sell or City Council Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Gulf Breeze City Hall, growth would force the city to expand the “We believe that having the golf course vacate the property by end of the month. Council Chambers plant. and the wastewater treatment plan owned by The financial note held by the company Eddy said if the city was able to obtain the the same entity would lead to a better coor- who loaned Meadowbrook money to repair GBA Chamber Executive Board Meeting, 4 p.m.-5 course, it would be maintained better than it dination of fertilizer, weed killers and herbi- four area golf courses after Hurricane Ivan p.m., Gulf Breeze Area Chamber was in the past as they would be responsible cides so there is less runoff into the sound.” had been sold to Boston company who for paying Meadowbrook Golf Group to Josie Cotti, the president and CEO of the gave notice to Meadowbrook earlier this Tuesday, November 20 maintain the courses. Gulf Breeze area Chamber of Commerce month. Holley-Navarre Water system’s said she was in favor of the expansion, after Commission Special - Reorganization Meeting, 9 a.m., Don Richards, the president of the United General Manager Ken Walker said SRC Administrative Center Peninsula Association which represents reading a letter submitted from her board of Meadowbrook has accepted the water many homeowner associations in the Gulf directors. board’s offer and closing currently is set Breeze and Navarre community, said that “We believe that it is the best interest of for Nov. 21. originally when the city talked the Gulf Breeze community that the City of No details of the offer are being released about wanting to purchase the Gulf Breeze SSRUS be granted the right to before closing. golf course, tensions were high incrementally expand their facilities in Tiger among residents. Point,” Cotti said. “The animosity was about The chamber representative said that the “The old plant stinks,” Yates said. “Unless as high as I’ve seen it in my ten city has offered to tell all of the residents sur- you live there, you don’t know that. “People years here,” Richards said. “I rounding the golf club about any changes or have to put up with that smell.” can tell you in the last two Richards additions to the plant and the course ahead of Yates also complained that when his Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Report time if the plant were to be expanded onto neighbors turned on their sprinklers that weeks, there have been numer- Information provided by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.