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Published by the Department of Public Affairs, City of St. Augustine. Florida     June 28 2011

Clarification

   New fund, not department,

   to track expenses for 450th

    City Manager John Regan clarified this afternoon that the separate city enterprise fund being set up with city monies returned from the First America Foundation is not a department, but rather a new city initiative to track the use of the money for the city's 450th anniversary. 

    He anticipates staff with a limited employment contract will manage that fund.

    The foundation, which folded after nine months with little progress, has returned $150,000 of $275,000 in start-up monies advanced by the city. Regan said another $25,000 may be reurned after final accounting.

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