Malik George slapped his hands together out of frustration after a missed layup attempt late in the action of a tightly contested game against Fort Walton Beach last Monday night.
George typically makes big shots – even the tough ones – so missing the easy one didn’t sit well with the Navarre senior.
Grady Kelly committed to Colorado State back in the spring and never wavered from that decision.
On Wednesday, he made his commitment official, signing his national letter of intent with the Rams.
Perhaps it was only fitting that it was a chilly Wednesday afternoon at the NYSA Soccer Complex as Navarre’s Megan Kirby prepared to sign her national letter of intent.
Kirby after all, is headed to St. Cloud State to continue her soccer career. For the record, that school is in Minnesota.
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It will be a lot harder to put proposed constitutional amendments on the 2022 ballot in Florida.
Heavy turnout in this year’s election and a new law that seeks to limit ballot initiatives have driven up the number of petition signatures that groups will have to submit to get on the ballot in 2022 and to trigger crucial reviews by the Florida Supreme Court.
Groups will have to submit 891,589 valid signatures to put issues on the ballot, up from 766,200 signatures to reach the 2020 ballot, according to information posted on the state Division of Elections website. Maybe more important, they will need to submit 222,898 signatures to receive what can be make-or-break Supreme Court reviews, up from 76,632 in 2020.
Republican lawmakers, who have taken a series of steps to make it harder for backers of ballot initiatives, passed a controversial bill this year that included raising the number of signatures needed to spur Supreme Court review.
On Friday, the Senate filed a document at the Supreme Court that cited the new signature requirement to try to bolster a months-long attempt to scuttle court review of a proposed constitutional amendment that would expand Medicaid coverage.
Backers of the proposed amendment originally planned to try to put the issue on the 2020 ballot and submitted 90,420 signatures — enough to receive Supreme Court review. They later decided to focus efforts on the 2022 ballot, and the Senate contends they need to reach the new threshold of 222,898 signatures to move forward with the review.
In the document filed Friday, Senate attorneys pointed to the 90,420 signatures submitted by Florida Decides Healthcare, a political committee behind the proposed amendment, and said the amount is “well short of the revised threshold.”
But Barry Richard, an attorney for Florida Decides Healthcare, argued in an April document that the Legislature “moved the goal posts” after the initiative qualified for Supreme Court review. He contended that the new law was not retroactive, effectively meaning that review should occur based on the initiative meeting the old threshold.
The Supreme Court plays a critical gatekeeper role in deciding whether ballot initiatives go before voters. It reviews the wording of proposed initiatives and determines whether they meet legal standards, such as not being misleading and not lumping together multiple subjects.
In the April document, Richard highlighted the importance of the Supreme Court review, describing the requirement of submitting hundreds of thousands of signatures to get on the ballot as “daunting and expensive.”
“An early advisory opinion from this (Supreme) Court indicating that an amendment meets constitutional and statutory requirements is a great benefit to a sponsor in its efforts to raise the funds and otherwise garner public support necessary to achieve ballot position,” the document said. “Conversely, an opinion indicating that an amendment is not valid avoids the risk to the sponsor of spending large sums of money to pass an amendment only to have it declared invalid after passage, and enables the sponsor to correct the defects if it desires to try again.”
The overall number of signatures needed to place constitutional amendments on the ballot is based on a formula that equates to 8 percent of the votes cast in the most-recent presidential election.
With 11,144,855 votes cast in the Nov. 3 election, that translates to 891,589 signatures needed to get initiatives on the 2022 ballot — up from the previous 766,200 signature requirement, which was based on turnout in the 2016 election.
That 8 percent requirement is part of the Florida Constitution, but the threshold for Supreme Court review is set by lawmakers. In the past, initiative supporters had to submit signatures equal to 10 percent of the overall requirement and meet varying signature requirements in a quarter of the state’s congressional districts — leading to the past 76,632-signature requirement for court review.
But under the new law, that 10 percent requirement jumped to 25 percent, with varying signature requirements in half of the congressional districts. That means 222,898 signatures will be needed, according to the Division of Elections website.
Along with the Medicaid expansion proposal, another potential 2022 ballot measure that has drawn heavy attention is an initiative that would allow people to use recreational marijuana. The Supreme Court heard arguments in May on that proposal but has not ruled. Backers of the marijuana proposal had submitted 555,276 valid petition signatures as of Monday morning, the Division of Elections website shows.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:
15 McClure Rd, Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 on 01/08/2021 at 12:00 PM
James Schulte – Retail fixtures
The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Legal# 3724
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
ADVERTISEMENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES
Advertisements for the real property delinquent tax list shall run once a week for three (3) weeks and the personal property delinquent tax list shall run for one (1) week and shall be printed in 5columns, in 6 point type and must comply with Florida Statute, Department of Revenue regulations and requirements of the Santa Rosa County Tax Collector. One Hundred (100) copies of the advertisement shall be given to the Tax Collector’s Office for distribution.
The last advertisement for delinquent real property taxes must run no later than May 22, 2021. Advertisements must run in at least 2000 issues of each publication run. The advertisement for delinquent personal property taxes must run no later than May 22, 2021. All bidders must be legally qualified to advertise delinquent tax lists pursuant to Florida Law. It is estimated but not guaranteed that each real property delinquent tax list shall consist of approximately 29,000 lines, and that the personal property delinquent tax list shall consist of approximately 1,300 lines.
All bids must be in writing and delivered by hand, overnight courier service, or U.S. Mail to the Santa Rosa County Procurement Department, 6495 Caroline Street, Suite L, Milton, Florida 32570, and must be received by 10:00 a.m., January 8, 2021, at which time will be publicly opened. E-mailed bid responses will be rejected. Only bids received by the aforestated time, date and location will be considered. All bids shall be sealed and clearly labeled, “ITB# 21-007 DELINQUENT TAX LISTS”. Please provide the original proposal, labeled “ORIGINAL”, and one (1) copy labeled “COPY” along with one (1) electronic file in OCR (readable) PDF format.
Project documents, including specifications relative thereto may be secured from the Santa Rosa County Procurement Department website at https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/391/Procurement-Office “Bid Opportunities”. Questions concerning this request should be directed to the Santa Rosa County Procurement Office in writing at bidinfo@santarosa.fl.gov by 4:30 p.m. December 30, 2020.
The Board of County Commissioners reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids in whole or in part and to waive all informalities and to award the bid that it determines to be in the best interest of Santa Rosa County.
Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners encourages all segments of the business community to participate in its procurement opportunities, including small businesses, minority/women owned businesses, and disadvantaged business enterprises. The Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sex, or age in the administration of contracts.
By order of the Board of County Commissioners of Santa Rosa County, Florida
LEGAL NOTICE
One Issue: December 17, 2020 – Navarre Press; December 17, 2020 – Gulf Breeze News; December 19, 2020 – Santa Rosa Press Gazette; December 18, 2019 – Pensacola News Journal
Bill and Proof to Santa Rosa County Procurement Department, 6495 Caroline Street, Suite L, Milton, Florida 32570
Legal# 3723
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FLORIDA
SARA J. BINNS, as Successor Trustee of the
ROLLO LIVING TRUST DATED March 19, 1996,
Plaintiff
vs.
CHERL LYN BOYCE;
MINDY LEE BOYCE; AND
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, a Political
Subdivision of THE STATE OF FLORIDA
Defendants.
CASE NO. 2020-CA-0005
NOTICE OF RE-SCHEDULED SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY given by the undersigned, that Donald C. Spencer, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Santa Rosa County, Florida, will on the 14th day of JANUARY, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. CST during the legal hours of sale on-line at www.santarosa.realforeclose.com offer for sale and sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash the following described property, in Santa Rosa County, Florida, to-wit: described property in Santa Rosa County, Florida, to-wit:
Pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered into in the above styled case.
Lots 11 AND 12, of Nichols Lake West, Block A, as recorded in Plat Book “G”, Page 87, of the public records of Santa Rosa County, Florida.
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sales, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens, must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the date of the sales.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact: Court Administration, ADA Liaison Santa Rosa County 6865 Caroline Street Milton, FL 32570 Phone (850) 983-0602 ADA.SantaRosa@flcourts1.gov at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.
Dated this the 14th day of December, 2020.
JACK LOCKLIN, JR.
Florida Bar No.: 243167
LOCKLIN, SABA, LOCKLIN & JONES
4557 Chumuckla Highway
Pace, FL 32571
(850) 995-1102
Email: jlocklin@ljslawfirm.com
2nd: shirl@ljslawfirm.com
Legal# 3722
Fictitious Name Notice
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of Constine Products, at 100 Northcliffe Dr #610., in the County of Santa Rosa, in the city of Gulf Breeze, Florida, 32561 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated at Navarre, Florida, this 10th day of December 2020. Skelly Incorporated, owner, or Corporation full name.
Legal Notice #3721
