Concours 2:00 AM d’Elegance schedule Page 4b and 6b SUNDAY, MARCH 11 $1.00 Friday, March 9, 2018 / 18 Pages, 2 sections • fbnewsleader.com Legislature passes gun bill, sends it to governor TRIMMEL GOMES to change that,” said Pollack. “But make Polk voiced particular concerns for Beach, who represents Nassau County Florida News Connection no mistake – I’m a father, and I’m on a black and brown students. and part of Duval County in District 11, mission. I’m on a mission to ensure that “That is normal to get phone calls voted against the bill. After more than eight hours of debate I’m the last dad to ever read a statement from time to time, saying that, ‘My “Despite containing some very posi- Wednesday, the Florida Legislature of this kind.” child’s very childlike behavior is scary or tive components, I could not vote for leg- passed Florida’s first gun restrictions The bill now heads to Gov. Rick terrorizing or criminalizing,’” she islation that has serious constitutional in three decades. Senate Bill 7026 also Scott’s desk, who has not said whether explained. “I’d rather [get] a phone call infirmities infringing upon the Second, includes a controversial measure to he will sign it. saying, ‘Come in. Help,’ rather than, Fourth and Fifth Amendments,” Byrd arm some teachers and other school The legislation overcame intense ‘Come and pick up or identify his young wrote in a Facebook post. personnel who undergo special training objections to proposals allowing school body.’” “What happened in Parkland was a sanctioned by the state. In addition, the Bean Byrd staff members to carry guns on school President Donald Trump has publicly failure of government. Over and over gun-safety package raises the legal age grounds, a measure critics see as posing supported arming teachers who are prop- again, federal, state and local, govern- for buying rifles and imposes a three-day a particular risk to minority students. erly trained as a way of hardening schools ment failed. When government fails, the waiting period on all firearms sales. Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old Jahody Polk, executive director of against gun violence. solution is not more government. The While it includes a number of key daughter was killed in the Feb. 14 mas- the Florida Council for Incarcerated and The National Rifle Association solution is not gun control.” gun restrictions, Republicans wouldn’t sacre at a high school in Parkland, said Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, opposed most of the provisions in the State Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina pass one of the primary demands of stu- more needs to be done. traveled to the Capitol on Tuesday to Florida Senate bill, with the exception of Beach, who represents Nassau County dents and activists: a ban on assault-style “My precious daughter Meadow’s life participate in a “Die-In,” to call attention arming teachers in schools. and part of Duval County in Senate weapons. was taken, and there’s nothing I can do to the dangers of allowing guns in school. State Rep. Cord Byrd, R-Neptune District 4, voted for the bill. FBCC votes on power READY TO RUMBLE to hear variance requests JULIA ROBERTS News-Leader Although the Fernandina Beach City Commission unanimously approved on a second reading Tuesday an ordinance to take power to approve certain vari- ance requests away from the Board of Adjustment, the ordinance will go to a third reading because of language added at the request of Commissioner Chip Ross. “I think city commissioners are adept at understanding the law,” Ross said. The issue began last year with a request to the BOA to combine lots to create a parcel wider than 100 feet on South Fletcher Avenue just south of IMAGE COPYRIGHT AND COURTESY OF GOODING & COMPANY. PHOTO BY BRIAN HENNIKER Atlantic Avenue. Doing so in that area This 2003 Ferrari Enzo with about 1,600 miles on it “would make an ideal acquisition for the consummate Ferrari collector. … Co-equally is currently not allowed. At the time, the enjoyable for its blistering performance, either on the confines of a racetrack or out on one’s favorite highways and byways, the Enzo displays property owners asked that the law be its raw, emotional disposition in any setting,” according to Gooding & Company. The Ferrari will be offered today at the Gooding & Company auction at the Racquet Park at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort. Viewing begins at 9 a.m. The Gooding & Company auction is just REQUESTS Continued on 5A one of several scheduled during the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance weekend. The car’s auction price estimate? $2.4 to $2.7 million. Kreger: City failed to apply for grants last year JULIA ROBERTS grants and made a determination that we growth in Nassau County, we are going News-Leader would apply for one storm water grant, to be swallowed in by that metropoli- based on evaluation the storm water tan area for planning purposes for state Vice Mayor Len Kreger admonished people, and matching funds. We would grants.” the staff at Tuesday’s Fernandina Beach apply for a generator for the airport and While its population already techni- City Commission meeting for not apply- a mobile generator for the fire depart- cally exceeds the state of Florida’s defi- ing last year for federal hazard mitiga- ment and shoreline stabilization.” nition of a rural county, Nassau County tion, pre-disaster or flood mitigation Kreger said that indications show is still considered “rural” according to grants for which the city was eligible. that the county will, in the 2020 census, state statutes because it is contiguous “Recently, I was critical of the city move out of the rural county category. with rural Baker County. because we missed a $260 million win- City Manager Dale Martin said the city Also at the meeting, Commissioner dow in November to apply for these is better served financially with a rural Chip Ross gave a report on research grants,” Kreger said. “That was nation- county designation, but that growth in he has conducted regarding the seawall wide. We wouldn’t have gotten all of the area will move Nassau County out along the Amelia River near Brett’s those grants, but we sure didn’t get any of that category. Waterway Cafe where the city has a by not applying.” “The way the state funds grant proj- parking lot. A project to develop the He said that a new funding cycle has ects is, if you are classified as rural, waterfront and build a park in that area begun, and the city should take advan- you are not required to have matching has been planned for a number of years tage of the potential funding. funds,” Martin explained. “We are mov- but no action has been taken toward “We are now in a second open grant ing out of that, not because we have a those plans. period that expires August 6,” Kreger choice but because of the way the cen- Ross had a number of concerns said. “Congress authorized $26 billion sus patterns are. Basically we are out- regarding the seawall. He said that, if FILE PHOTO for the Gulf states. This is (Hurricane) side of the boundaries of the Jacksonville According to City Manager Dale Martin, a final report on the structure Irma money. The city reviewed the urban area, and, unfortunately due to the GRANTS Continued on 5A beneath Brett’s Waterway Café is expected at the end of March. INDEX Looking Back 50 Years Classifieds, 7b religion, 6b While searching for an escaped Community, 6a serviCe direCtory, 7b prisoner from the city jail, two editorial, 7a sudoku, 2b Fernandina Beach police officers obituaries, 2a sports, 10a were seriously wounded by gunfire out and about, 2b Weekend, 2b after a confrontation during a traffic stop on North Third Street. News-Leader, 164th year. No. 20, Copyright, 2018 March 7, 1968 NL 6 col. Fri. 03.09 .indd 1 3/8/18 4:09 PM 2A Friday, March 9, 2018 NEWS News-Leader Weekly Update SCHOLARSHIP OBITUARIES Island Art Association Wayne Darrell Chandler The Island Art Association has announced the continuation Wayne Darrell Chandler died Friday, March 2, 2018 in his Centre Street parking limited today of a $1,500 scholarship to be awarded to the winning portfo- home. He was 59. He was born in Jacksonville, Fla. on April 15, The city of Fernandina Beach has advised that parking spots lio of a Nassau County high school senior. The high school 1958 to William Timothy “Tim” and Thelma along Centre Street will be blocked on Friday, March 9, due to a of the winning student will also receive an award of $500. Claudia “Kete” Browning Chandler. He lived on “road tour” that will include approximately 55 cars as part of the Student portfolios must be submitted directly to the Island Art Trout River in the Riverview area for his first 20 Concours d’Elegance. Traffic may also be diverted in the areas Association at 18 N. Second St. in Fernandina Beach by April 6. years. Even after moving out of the family home, of Second and Front streets. While traffic may be congested The portfolios must contain four to five selections of well he remained in north Jacksonville. during the event, Centre Street will not be closed at any time. presented, original and current artwork (2D or 3D). A resume He was in the 1976 graduating class at Trinity is required, including the applicant’s personal statement listing Christian Academy. FRWN seeking Christmas cards artistic background, ambitions, and goals.