Following receipt today of InsideVero’s latest public records request, City Manager Jim O’Connor replied, “My office has no documents related to the proposed sale, but I have been involved in discussions, but there were no documents passed between parties in the discussion where I participated.”
When asked how staff could be conducting an ongoing financial review of FPL’s proposed terms without putting any information in writing, O’Connor replied, “I know better than to take notes in fact I usually will not carry a pen.”
O’Conner’s explanations make it unmistakably clear he and just one member of the City Council, Laura Moss, are negotiating the sale of a public asset and are doing so behind closed doors. Further, his comments raise questions about the veracity of Moss’s claim that members of City Staff have been conducting “an ongoing financial review” of the deal.
Moss, along with fellow Council members Harry Howle and Lange Sykes, seem set to accept FPL’s terms on May 16, the day the offer is scheduled to be presented. Based on what she has claimed so far, Moss seem likely to argue that the deal has already been carefully reviewed by Staff.
Indian River Guardian 
Sounds a bit like All Aboard Florida is not the only train about to run through Vero Beach.