AVON PARK — Two weeks after Sarah Adelt, who continues as the city clerk, took over as the interim city manager, it doesn't seem all that different in Avon Park City Hall despite the change in city managers. The double doors still open to Sarah Adelt's desk, and she's juggling the phone speaking to a city council member while plugging numbers into her computer's planner. Despite shuffling some tasks around "the transition's going very well," she emphasized. ...more

January 15, 2008

Tom O'Neill took the reins of this west Pasco County municipality less than a month ago, and since then, he's earned good grades from his colleagues. ...more

January 10, 2008

Residents of the North River neighborhood like their lawns. There are 483 households in the affluent riverfront quarter and, according to city figures, residents there use more than 109,000 gallons of water a day to keep the grass green. ...more

January 8, 2008

State and federal regulators say they're unlikely to approve the city's request to create a new navigational channel linking Old Post Road to the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

January 6, 2008

AVON PARK — C.B. Shirey stepped down as Avon Park's city manager to become the Avon Park Executive Airport's first dedicated airport manager. According to the text of a resolution unanimously passed by the city council on Wednesday, Shirey will continue to "provide his service and expertise and allow a smooth transition to (the interim) city manager" for the next 60 days. City Clerk Sarah Adelt will assume Shirey's old duties until the city hires his replacement. Even though three of the five council members criticized Shirey's performance as a city manager in his evaluation last month, the council agreed that Shirey should take on the smaller role. Council members were a bit concerned at first about whether Adelt could run the city in the meantime. ...more

January 3, 2008

The little city by the river has hired a new captain to take the helm. ...more

December 22, 2007

After the top three candidates for city manager declined the job, a familiar face may get the position. Richard Reade, 36, the former city manager of Davenport, is back in the running. ...more

December 22, 2007

City officials have been scratching their heads for weeks trying to figure out how this small municipality has been losing millions of gallons of water every month. ...more

December 17, 2007

It's not easy for a city government to negotiate a real estate purchase. ...more

December 13, 2007

Red-light cameras are a gray area in Florida law. The state says communities can install the traffic control devices, but can't really use them, because a police officer must observe a violation to issue a ticket. ...more

December 11, 2007