Despite citizen opposition, Santa Rosa County Commissioners extended Waste Pro’s waste hauling monopoly to cover the north end of Santa Rosa County, effective Jan. 1.
The final tourism tax report for fiscal 2019-2020 showed the year totaled more than $3.5 million of revenue. That was down less than 10 percent from the previous year and still greater than the previous two years despite Covid-19.
More than 430 businesses applied for the $2.6 million of assistance through Santa Rosa County’s CARES Act small business recovery grants following the losses they sustained due to COVID.
County commissioners were considering a modification to the Land Development Code that would allow digging borrow pits and filling with vegetative debris within the well field protection area of East Milton. Those wells provide water for south Santa Rosa residents and businesses.
