Flagler Beach Approves Flat Tax Rate and $87 Million Budget, But Not Before 2 Commissioners Kill Engineer's Job

Flagler Beach Approves Flat Tax Rate and $87 Million Budget, But Not Before 2 Commissioners Kill Engineer's Job

The Flagler Beach City Commission last week approved its tax rate and $87 million budget for the coming year. The commission approved both items at its second and final budget hearing last Thursday, though not before two of the four commissioners at the meeting--Rick Belhumeur and John Cunningham--risked leaving the city without a budget if the city manager didn’t scrap his plan to hire a second city engineer. That second city engineer position …