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Indian River Lagoon

The Indian River Lagoon Coalition

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January 8, 2020

Indian River Lagoon

Saving the Indian River Lagoon: What’s happening with tax money; what’s in store

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January 5, 2020

Indian River Lagoon

Palm Bay Wants Mandatory Water/Sewer Hookups – Randy Fine Says It’s About Time

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December 18, 2019

Indian River Lagoon

EPA Funds Estuary Grant Program

December 12, 2019

Parks and Recreation

Florida Senator Joe Gruters Seeks to Make Smoking Illegal In Public Beaches & Parks

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December 4, 2019

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We often measure the depth of someone else's water by the length of our own legs.Nowhere is that more true than in politics right now. We look at a neighbor's vote, a stranger's post, or a family member's opinion and decide we already know who they are and why they think the way they do. We call their fears overblown and their struggles exaggerated, because the issue that is drowning them barely reaches our ankles.The price of groceries, the cost of insurance, a job that disappeared, a policy that touched their family and not ours. The same headline lands differently depending on where you're standing.Understanding someone doesn't mean agreeing with them. It means admitting you are only seeing the surface before you decide what's underneath.We can disagree without assuming the worst. Before you tell someone it isn't that deep, remember you're standing on a different rock. ...

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A prop plane crash-landed on a busy road in Fort Myers, Florida, on Saturday, rear-ending a pickup truck, according to police.The Lee County Sheriff's Office said no injuries were reported and the FAA is leading the investigation. ...

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In direct response to recent severe weather impacts and localized flood recovery needs across Brevard County following the historic November storm events, America’s Persons with Disabilities (APWD) Florida HQ Charter, in partnership with United for Growth Foundation Inc., along with local restaurant businesses and national corporate partners presented by Bloomin' Brands / Carrabba’s Italian Grill, will host an Emergency Community Resource and Information Outreach Gathering on November 7th from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at 2295 Washington St NE, Palm Bay, FL. ...

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President Trump says he's offered the Press Secretary job to Dana White. ...

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BREAKING: School Board Chair Matt Susin has called a special meeting for 9 a.m. Tuesday to shield the superintendent who just quit on Brevard Public Schools in the middle of the school year among pending investigations.History repeating itself with Dr. Rendell.On Oct. 27, the School Board rated Mark Rendell 93.96 percent and handed him a $10,000 bonus. Nine days later, Eastern Florida State College announced he was leaving his over $300k job to take a vice president job that was never advertised. There is no public record he gave the board the notice his contract requires before he went looking. There's already a regular board meeting scheduled where this could have been added to the agenda but that meeting will also include the newly elected board members. Susin has called this meeting BEFORE the new board members are sworn in.Now Susin wants the board to vote on a “Mutual Separation Agreement” that waives Rendell’s 90 days of notice, pays out his unused leave, keeps the district on the hook for his legal bills, and releases him from every claim, “known or unknown.” The Rocket has been told the document was largely copied from the agreement the board gave Mark Mullins when it fired him without cause, with the 20 weeks of severance removed. Mullins was fired. Rendell quit. He is getting the same protection.He is walking out with the Riviera Elementary death still under investigation, a state reporting inquiry into three district employees (including Gene Trent) still pending, no chief financial officer, a $100 million short-term loan, a $79 million budget cut, and 7 percent staffing cuts he ordered himself.If that sounds familiar, it should. In 2019, Rendell was at odds with the Indian River County School Board over district finances and his contract. He quietly lined up a job as a principal at Cocoa Beach without telling his board, and a loyal member tried to rush through his exit terms. That board said no. He left anyway.Same playbook. Different county. Same financial questions left behind.The special meeting is 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Educational Services Facility in Viera. Show up and ask the board one question: who does this agreement serve, the students or the man who quit?Read the full article for the contract language, the agreement, and the records: thespacecoastrocket.com/brevard-school-board-rendell-separation-agreement-vote/#BrevardSchools #SpaceCoastRocket #BrevardCounty ...

Susin Calls Special Meeting to Shield Superintendent Who Quit Mid-Year

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Rendell quit nine days after a bonus with the Riviera death investigation open. Chair Matt Susin called a special meeting to waive his notice and release him from every claim, a week before the new bo...

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