to our Top 8th-Grade Students! PALATKA- SEE PAGES DAILY 6 AND 7 - NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2021 PUTNAM COUNTY’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER $1 Loyalty Questioned, IT Terrors Exposed Commissioners demand explanation for perceived slight BY NICK BLANK Palatka Daily News
[email protected] Palatka commissioners made their outrage clear Thursday while grilling the city manager regarding him attending a breakfast with Gov. Ron DeSantis while commissioners weren’t even notified of the visit. In his closing comments during the Palatka City SARAH CAVACINI/Palatka Daily News Commission meeting, Mayor Corbett Higman, the vice president of strategic accounts at Inspired Terrill Hill said he felt a bit Technologies, talks about all of the issues with the city’s computer beyond mad and disrespected systems during a commission meeting Thursday. because of the slight. After he found out city com- missioners were not invited — but City Manager Don Holmes as well as Putnam County law City, expert: Contract enforcement, government and business leaders were — he began calling officials in the picture. The invitations came from needed to boost state Rep. Bobby Payne, “When I look at that picture, Payne. “I said, ‘There’s no face sioners, but while Holmes – R-Palatka, who told Hill he what I see is it looks like a there that represents the city who answers to the city com- didn’t have much time to bunch of guys who just left the except the city manager.’” mission – was there, no other invite people. Hill found out O.K. Corral who came togeth- Hill said Payne invited about the visit through social er to have a meeting,” Hill said, County Administrator Terry insufficient tech system media, he said.