- April 17, 2024
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Three candidates are vying for two seats on the Flagler Beach City Commission.
Marshall Shupe
Age: 66
Occupation: Retired teacher/dean of students in North Syracuse, N.Y., school system and former Onondaga County, N.Y., fire investigator
Qualifications: Former volunteer fire chief and member of the Flagler Beach Zoning Board
What one specific thing will you do as a City Commissioner to improve employment in Flagler Beach?
As one member of a five-person board, I will help to support, encourage and strengthen the businesses and the jobs in our area. We must provide business owners pathways to enable their continued presence, which will help to improve employment. I will work toward helping new businesses establish themselves in our city. I will also work toward preserving one of our main resources: the beach and its related offerings.
Kim Carney
Age: 54
Occupation: Facility manager, Eagles Nest Self Storage, Flagler Beach
Qualifications: Degree in business and in accounting. Budget experience and board experience.
What one specific thing will you do as a City Commissioner to improve employment in Flagler Beach?
Flagler Beach’s businesses are mostly small, privately owned businesses. Many of the business owners operate and work at their businesses. It is vital that our existing businesses achieve profitability and continue to provide services and products to our residents. I will work to make the new business-licensing process easier. There are many obstacles business owners and employers face that need to be eliminated. I would like to find a tenant for the old Food Lion building. This building could house a decent-sized employer. We need to get creative.
Philip Busch
Age: 65
Occupation: Web master/semi-retired
Qualifications: Flagler County Long Range Planning Board, fiscal conservative; business experience
What one specific thing will you do as a City Commissioner to improve employment in Flagler Beach?
Increased employment requires new business. To support new businesses, I will work to streamline the business-permitting process. In addition, I will promote a Chamber of Commerce mentoring program that would help new business owners navigate through the permitting process. I will also promote a business advisory board to work with the city in its endeavor to attract and keep business right here in Flagler Beach. I will support the use of local businesses for the city whenever economically feasible.
CHARTER AMENDMENTS
AMENDMENT 1
Mayoral Duties
Shall the Flagler Beach Charter be amended to require the mayor to attend all City Commission meetings unless excused by the City Commissioners, and to clarify that the five days related to a mayoral veto of City Commissioners’ votes on a resolution or ordinance means five working days after adoption by the City Commissioners?
Reason: The change to have mayor attend all meetings unless excused is proposed to mirror the requirements of the commissioners.
AMENDMENT 2
Elected Officials’ Forfeiture of Office
Shall the Flagler Beach Charter be amended to require that an elected official forfeits office if (s)he enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a felony, is convicted of a first-degree misdemeanor arising out of official conduct or enters pleas of guilty or nolo contendere thereto, or violates any standard or code of ethical conduct and has been suspended from office by the governor, unless subsequently reinstated as provided by law?
Reason: Amendments 2 and 4 are posed to clarify existing language and to follow state guidelines.
AMENDMENT 3
Electronic Posting of Ordinances
Shall the Flagler Beach Charter be amended to require that all ordinances be posted electronically after final approval by the City Commissioners?
AMENDMENT 4
Clarification of Ambiguities; Conformity with State Law
Shall Section 2.10 of the Charter be amended to correct ambiguities and to refer to state law when state law is required to be followed regarding enactments by ordinance or resolutions?
AMENDMENT 5
Time for Submission of Budget to Commission
Shall the Charter be amended to require the city manager to submit to the commission a budget and accompanying message no later than 15 days after receipt of the last certification of taxable value from the Flagler County property appraiser, rather than submitting no later than 10 days after receipt of same?
Reason: Flagler Beach’s corporate limits are within two counties; therefore the city receives two certificates of taxable value from each property appraiser. the additional five days allows the receipt of the Volusia certificate.
AMENDMENT 6
Charter Review Commission
Shall the Flagler Beach Charter be amended to clarify that the Charter Review Commission shall convene every 10 years, calculated from the time the Review Commission’s most recent proposals were last sent to voters?
Reason: This question is proposed to clarify existing language.
Source: city of Flagler Beach
