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Steve Nicklas

Ideas For Fernandina Beach City Government Cost-Cutting

Fernandina Beach’s city’s budget is saddled with liabilities and encumbered with revenue shortfalls. A painful budget process has ensued this summer. To help city officials with what is a difficult and thankless process, Steve Nicklas offers some potential answers to the financial test before them. Some can be employed now, others later.

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Fernandina Beach City Hall

Fernandina Beach Government Needs Austerity Pill

Many cities and counties are suffering from the headaches of sagging tax revenues and tight budgets — but the aspirin of austerity is a hard pill to swallow. In Fernandina Beach, oblivious city commissioners are focused on borrowing up to $6 million through lines of credit to pay for frivolous projects.

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Fernandina Beach City Hall

Natives Appear Restless in Fernandina Beach

If there was a town crier in Fernandina Beach, an old-style messenger and broadcaster of events, he might be crying right now. Or maybe laughing. Not with amusement, but with a heckle of contempt.

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