Reingold and Wright spar in email exchange
MARK SCHUMANN
Acting on the Vero Beach City Council’s decision late Wednesday to file its own petition with the Florida Public Service Commission, special counsel Schef Wright wrote County Attorney Dylan Reingold and the County’s special counsel, Floyd Self, to inform them the City would also be asking the PSC to reschedule from Feb. 2 to March 3 its twice-delayed response to the County’s petition, so both petitions could be heard at the same time. (Two earlier delays were requested by the County.)
Wright’s initial email led to a testy exchange between he and Reingold. Just 10 minutes after receiving Wright’s message, Reingold replied, “The County opposes the request to move our petition to March 3rd. I specifically addressed this issue at the mediation on Wednesday. I find your lack of disclosure of your petition and your request to have our petition rescheduled unprofessional and I am reviewing seeking sanctions under section 164.1058 Florida Statutes.”
Wright replied in part, “Dylan, I am truly sorry you are offended by our not discussing a potential petition by the City for a declaratory statement at the mediation, but I’m sure you can appreciate that my client had not yet decided on whether to file its own petition in order to ask the limited questions of interest to the city as to its service territory within the unincorporated areas of the County.”
Wright added, “And frankly, I find your accusation that our behavior was ‘unprofessional’ to be, at best, along the lines of ‘the pot lecturing the kettle on cleanliness.'”
Wright went on to recount how, after having had 12 days to study the PSC Staff’s recommendations regarding the County’s petition, Reingold and his clients, the Indian River County Commission, “allowed the parties to incur the time, effort, and cost (including travel costs) of preparing for the PSC’s agenda conference on November 25, then telling the PSC and the parties that you would file and amended petition on December 1, and then, on December 10, fifteen days after your original commitment to re-file on December 1, essentially telling the PSC and us ‘Never mind’…”
In his response to Reingold, Wright also indicated the City, after reconsideration, would not ask the PSC to reschedule its response to the County’s petition. “We’ll just let the PSC’s processes run their course, whatever the PSC decides those courses should be.”
Indian River Guardian 
And the nice thing about this is that not only do the attorneys get to act likr spoiled brats but we taxpayers get to pay them their hourly rate to do so.. As Larry the Cable Guy says, “Only in America!”
I’m darned glad we city people have someone who’ll respond to the county and Indian River Shores. We’re kinda mad and we aren’t going to take it anymore!
And, the County Attorney responds to important stuff within minutes…Hmmm. Pretty gutsy of him to act on his own without a vote from the elected officials. Just saying.