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Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 NFL: Buccaneers cruise past Broncos 28-10 /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUSCOUNTY & next morning HIGH 88 Mostly cloudy, LOW scattered storms. 72 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 125 ISSUE 356 NEWS CR council to vote on budgets BRIEFS BUSTER THOMPSON Council to discuss WANT TO ATTEND I Citrus COVID-19 Staff writer To listen in online, visit future of city’s THE MEETING? gotomeeting.com/webinar/ update Crystal River Council will have ordinance codes I Crystal River City Council will join-webinar, and enter the Eight new positive webinar ID 208-057-003 and a its final vote on the city’s budgets meet in-person at 5:30 p.m. on cases were reported in To address and modernize the personal email address. and millage rate at their upcom- Crystal River’s code of ordi- Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, at city Citrus County since the ing meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, nances, council members will hall, 123 U.S. 19, Crystal River. I To listen in by phone, call latest FDOH update. One Sept. 28, 2020. mull over suggested updates for I There is no CRA meeting. 1-213-929-4212 and dial the new hospitalization was Council had voted 5-0 at its last the city’s rulebook. access code 542-002-143. reported; one new death I There will be temperature gathering on Sept. 14 to pass the This includes: limiting the size was reported. checks for the public before I Public comment can be city’s current 4.8 millage rate on of accessory structures on prop- To date in the county, property taxes for the 2020-21 fis- entering city hall, where social emailed to publiccomment@ erties; re-evaluating the width of 2,745 people have tested cal year. distancing will be enforced. crystalriverfl.org between driveways; establishing appropri- positive (including eight This will help fund an antici- ate landscaping materials; com- Mask-wearing is being 8 a.m. and noon on Monday, non-residents), 286 have pated city budget of $5.23 million bining lots into neighborhoods; requested. Sept. 28. been hospitalized and council also voted Sept. 14 to ap- adjusting boat dock lengths; mod- I Council’s meeting will also be I For questions about meeting prove, along with a $5.89 million 103 have died. ifying signage rules; and requir- broadcast live via the internet access, email lbollin@ budget for the city’s Community ing golf cart decals. and phone. crystalriverfl.org. Register now to Redevelopment Agency district. See COUNCIL/Page A2 vote in election Contact the Citrus County Supervisor of Elections office today to check your voter status. Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, Gold Star Mom pens book is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 3, 2020, General election. To register online or find ad- ditional information about registering to vote, go to www.votecitrus.com. Voter registration appli- cations are available on the website to print and deliver in person to the elections office or mail to PO Box 1870 Lecanto, FL 34460. Voter registration applications may also be obtained by calling 352- 564-7120 or toll-free 800- 655-6645, or by visiting the Supervisor of Elec- tions Office located at 1500 N. Meadowcrest Blvd. Crystal River 34429. POLL ONLINE POLL: Your choice? What do you think of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed legislation that would impose felony-level penalties on anyone who damages property, causes injury or destroys public property during a protest? Special to the Chronicle Krista Keating-Joseph has co-authored a new book about her son, Charlie Keating IV, a US Navy Seal, killed in May 2016 in a firefight with A. I agree with it. ISIS. Keating-Joseph turned to writing to grieve the loss of her son, penning a series of children books as well as her latest work, “Charlie, Vandalism should be Don’t be a Hero.” dealt with harshly. B. It is pure politics. Everything he is Author writes on loss of her son in latest work, ‘Charlie, Don’t be a Hero’ proposing is already JEFF BRYAN ince the death of her oldest illegal and comes with Staff writer son four-plus years ago, stiff penalties. S Krista Keating-Joseph C. I specifically like the Editor’s Note: Sunday marked turned to writing to grieve the part that would strip Gold Star Mother’s Day in the loss of her son, penning a series municipalities of state U.S. Gold Star Mother’s Day is of children books, showing Char- money if they defund observed in the United States on lie Keating IV was like many law enforcement. the last Sunday of September children, with hopes, dreams each year. It is a day for people to and aspirations. D. I question the legality recognize and honor those who But it was also those hopes, of the part that would have lost a son or daughter while dreams and aspirations that strip municipalities of serving the United States Armed prepared Keating to become state money if they Forces. what he’s best known for: a US defund law enforcement. I I I Navy Seal, who tragically died E. Shouldn’t the in May 2016 in a firefight with governor be more “When you lose a child, you ISIS. He was 31. concerned with other feel like you lose hope … what Keating was awarded the Sil- things, like improving they would have been, what they ver Star several days after his Florida’s unemployment would have become, what their death for coordinating U.S. and Charlie Keating IV with his mother, Krista Keating-Joseph, in 2007. system or its health children would be like.” allied forces in a defense against upgraded to the Navy Cross as a Silver Stars during the wars in — Krista Keating-Joseph, over 100 enemy fighters in Iraq. result of a Pentagon-wide re- Iraq and Afghanistan. care quality standing in “Charlie, Don’t be a Hero.” Keating’s medal was view of service crosses and See CHARLIE/Page A2 the US, which is in the bottom 10. To vote, visit www. chronicleonline.com. Scroll down the home page and look for the Charitable Foundation ‘Upper-tier’ home sales poll box in the right- hand column. pace August ‘resurgence’ Results will appear responds to critical audit next Monday. Find last week’s online poll FRED HIERS William Dixon told the Chronicle. in Florida housing market results./Page A3 Staff writer “There was no fraud, and the orga- nization was not harmed or im- JOHN HAUGHEY Last month’s closed sales of INDEX The Citrus County Community paired by these errors: it provided The Center Square single-family homes statewide Classifieds ............... B9 Charitable Foundation members needed assistance to deserving rose 8.8% year-over-year, total- Comics .................... B8 responded Friday formally to the county recipients.” If property values and real ing 29,495. Existing condo- county auditor’s criticisms over ac- Dixon went on to say that audi- estate sales are bedrock indica- townhouse sales increased Crossword .............. B12 cusations of policy and operational tors sometimes get it wrong. tors of economic health, Flor- 10.3% over August 2019 and to- Editorial ....................A6 violations, saying they will fix some Examples, he said, include mis- ida should weather the taled 11,100. Closed sales may Entertainment ...........A4 errors, but disagree with some of interpreting the foundation’s in- long-term implications of the occur from 30- to 90-plus days Horoscope ................A4 the auditor’s other conclusions. vestment make up and county response to the COVID-19 pan- after sales contracts are writ- Lottery Numbers ...... B3 Two foundation members told auditor’s thinking the founda- demic in relatively good shape. ten, according to the report. Lottery Payouts ........ B3 the Chronicle that nothing in the tion’s investment policy statement According to the Florida Real- “Florida’s housing market Movies ..................... B8 audit report caused much alarm. should be audited, something he tors’ August report, the Sunshine continues to gain momentum Obituaries .............None “The audit was thorough, disclos- disagrees that’s required. State’s housing market reported and provide support for the TV Listings ............... B7 ing a very few human errors made Foundation member David more closed sales, more new state’s economy, even as we all by unpaid citizen volunteers in the Ryan said invariably auditors will pending sales, higher median remain vigilant in protecting course of thousands of transactions find some mistakes with almost prices and more new listings in our health, safeguarding our and interactions over the course of any organization’s operations. August compared with a year communities and trying to keep a year,” foundation member Dr. See AUDIT/Page A2 ago, despite the pandemic. See HOME/Page A2 A2 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 STATE & LOCAL CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE books), Charlie had just through; it gave me a pur- died.” pose. It gave me some- COUNCIL CHARLIE But it served as an in- thing, relating his stories. Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 spiration to show Charlie I had the funniest, lucki- was more than a Navy est kid in the world. The Also on council’s agenda Some notable recipi- Seal. book is entertaining. It for Monday: ents of the Navy Cross in- The book, available on- just makes me smile. I A vote to approve a clude: WWII Fleet line at Amazon, Barnes & “I found through this contract amendment be- Admiral William “Bull” Noble and Books-A- whole writing process, tween the city and its Halsey Jr.; Marine and Million, provides readers that not only is it thera- workers union, the Flor- former U.S.

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