A Keep Santa Rosa Beautiful (KSRB) audit conducted by an investigator with the Clerk of the Circuit Court concluded that the organization has “seen better days” and that it is unable to pay its bills.

KSRB is the umbrella organization for the Panhandle Butterfly House (PHB), which has floundered since relocating from Navarre Park to make way for renovations. KSRB funds have always been kept separate from PHB, the audit notes.

Dr. Karen Barber, superintendent for Santa Rosa County District Schools, was awarded the CivicCon Government Transparency Award for proactively raising the district’s reporting of COVID-19 to “an unsurpassed level of transparency and detail.”

The Florida Association of Counties (FAC) and the Small County Coalition created the ACCESS 67 program to help expand internet services to under-served areas in Florida in conjunction with small Florida counties.

Adams Sanitation has filed a lawsuit in Santa Rosa Circuit Court against Santa Rosa County for the second time this year. This lawsuit, filed Nov. 12, alleges that the county broke the open records laws by failing to produce requested documents.

The lines creating the five electoral districts in Santa Rosa may be redrawn by the commissioners to evenly divide the population between the districts.