FAC 

Navarre Chamber 

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam Parker is Appointed to the Florida Association of Counties BOD  

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam Parker, Chairman and District 1, has been appointed to the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) Board of Directors as an at-large director for 2024-25. 

 

COUNTY 

Positively Osceola 

Commissioner Brandon Arrington Distributes Over 900 Backpacks During 3rd Annual Back-to-School Tour in Osceola County  

Commissioner Brandon Arrington was on Tour Wednesday, a Back-to-School Tour that included nine schools across Osceola County District 3, distributing backpacks filled with essential school supplies ahead of the soon coming new school year. 

 

STORM RECOVERY  

ABC 7 

Manatee County Commission extends emergency declaration 

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) – On Thursday, Manatee County Commissioners voted to extend the state of emergency due to Hurricane Debby. 

 

Orlando Sentinel  

Hurricane center tracks new system as Tropical Storm Debby makes landfall again  

The National Hurricane Center turned its eye back to the Atlantic for a system that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm as it approaches the Caribbean while Tropical Storm Debby made its second landfall this week going ashore in South Carolina. 

 

WGCU 

Lee Commissioners award $1M Ian recovery funds to Fort Myers  

A portion of the more than $1 billion Lee County received in Hurricane Ian recovery funds has been approved for Fort Myers. 

 

AROUND THE COUNT(R)Y 

Route-Fifty 

New bans on panhandling in medians spark debate over free speech rights  

The efforts to pass pans have grown amid a nationwide homelessness crisis, with more people visibly soliciting money in the streets, and higher pedestrian deaths compared with before the pandemic.