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Barker did not return a Thursday telephone call and a separate text message seeking comment on the decision to terminate Tusa's contract. None of the other four commissioners, with the exception of Anderson, returned telephone calls or text messages.

In a brief Thursday interview, Anderson merely stood by comments he made at the commission meeting, which included, "We've asked a man to do a job. He's done a job, and we're going to fire him. I think that's a terrible mistake."

At Tuesday's commission meeting Barker said, "We've had a lot of things come to light on what TDC ...  funding can be spent on, what it can't be spent on, what can be spent on advertising, what can't be spent on advertising.

"I think there's some information that has not been exactly accurate that has been given to commissioners and to the public on what those funds can be spent on," Barker added. "I think that is a responsibility of the TDC director to stay up on the law, stay up on the information to know what can and can't be done in that department ... so they can advise the public and advise us in an accurate manner. That's not anybody else's responsibility but that director."

The vote to end Tusa's contract came in the wake of a recent commission meeting at which David Demarest, the TDC's director of marketing and communication, told commissioners that the agency is required to spend 40% of its revenue on marketing the county to tourists. For the current fiscal year, Demarest said in a Thursday interview, 43% of the TDC's budget is earmarked for marketing-related expenditures.

That position, however, was countered at a separate commission meeting by interim county counsel Clay Adkinson, who also has served for some years as the TDC counsel. Under public questions regarding the amount of money the TDC is required to spend for marketing, Adkinson said the 40% requirement only applies "if you are attempting to use one of the more recent (state) legislative enactments which is to construct basically public facilities, which we would call capital improvements."

"The county has not endeavored to do that with TDC dollars yet," Adkinson continued, adding that "if you attempt to spend monies for those public facilities, identified by the statute ... then, yes, you do have to have that 40% threshold ... ."

However, Adkinson added, "that doesn't apply to this county at this point in time. It could in the future, but right now you're not at that stage."

Tusa did not return a Thursday telephone call and a separate text message seeking comment on the TDC's spending on marketing and on his ouster from the agency.   

Questions about the TDC's spending on marketing have become acute in recent weeks, as county officials and the general public have wondered in commission meetings and elsewhere whether TDC dollars might better be used on beach safety initiatives.

That interest in steering significant additional TDC funds to beach safety initiatives has come in the wake of the recent drownings of four tourists due to dangerous surf conditions and in connection with what local public safety officials have called a general resistance of many visitors to stay out of the water when the beach flag warning system indicates that surf conditions are too dangerous.

Demarest said Thursday that he was surprised by Adkinson's statements on marketing spending by the TDC, explaining that the 40% spending level "has long been the understanding that the TDC and the BCC (the Walton County Board of County Commissioners) has operated under."

"Certainly, (county) staff and the community has been saying that in previous TDC meetings" without being countered, Demarest added.

"It's not up to us to make the legal interpretation," Demarest continued, going on to note that the 40% level of spending on marketing predated Tusa's arrival as the TDC's executive director.

Demarest said Nick came to the TDC's offices Wednesday for a "courtesy visit to see how we were doing."

"He reiterated the importance of the TDC and the job we have to do," Demarest said.

Meanwhile, the county already has begun its search for Tusa's replacement. The day after the commission decision, the careers page on the county's website listed the executive director's job, noting a salary range of $84,312 to $200,000. Tusa's salary was $152,159 annually, but the TDC board had been working to have the commission give him a raise. 

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Barker did not return a Thursday telephone call and a separate text message seeking comment on the decision to terminate Tusa&#039;s contract. None of the other four commissioners, with the exception of Anderson, returned telephone calls or text messages.<br />
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In a brief Thursday interview, Anderson merely stood by comments he made at the commission meeting, which included, &quot;We&#039;ve asked a man to do a job. He&#039;s done a job, and we&#039;re going to fire him. I think that&#039;s a terrible mistake.&quot;<br />
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At Tuesday&#039;s commission meeting Barker said, &quot;We&#039;ve had a lot of things come to light on what TDC ...  funding can be spent on, what it can&#039;t be spent on, what can be spent on advertising, what can&#039;t be spent on advertising.<br />
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&quot;I think there&#039;s some information that has not been exactly accurate that has been given to commissioners and to the public on what those funds can be spent on,&quot; Barker added. &quot;I think that is a responsibility of the TDC director to stay up on the law, stay up on the information to know what can and can&#039;t be done in that department ... so they can advise the public and advise us in an accurate manner. That&#039;s not anybody else&#039;s responsibility but that director.&quot;<br />
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The vote to end Tusa&#039;s contract came in the wake of a recent commission meeting at which David Demarest, the TDC&#039;s director of marketing and communication, told commissioners that the agency is required to spend 40% of its revenue on marketing the county to tourists. For the current fiscal year, Demarest said in a Thursday interview, 43% of the TDC&#039;s budget is earmarked for marketing-related expenditures.<br />
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That position, however, was countered at a separate commission meeting by interim county counsel Clay Adkinson, who also has served for some years as the TDC counsel. Under public questions regarding the amount of money the TDC is required to spend for marketing, Adkinson said the 40% requirement only applies &quot;if you are attempting to use one of the more recent (state) legislative enactments which is to construct basically public facilities, which we would call capital improvements.&quot;<br />
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&quot;The county has not endeavored to do that with TDC dollars yet,&quot; Adkinson continued, adding that &quot;if you attempt to spend monies for those public facilities, identified by the statute ... then, yes, you do have to have that 40% threshold ... .&quot;<br />
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However, Adkinson added, &quot;that doesn&#039;t apply to this county at this point in time. It could in the future, but right now you&#039;re not at that stage.&quot;<br />
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Tusa did not return a Thursday telephone call and a separate text message seeking comment on the TDC&#039;s spending on marketing and on his ouster from the agency.   <br />
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Questions about the TDC&#039;s spending on marketing have become acute in recent weeks, as county officials and the general public have wondered in commission meetings and elsewhere whether TDC dollars might better be used on beach safety initiatives.<br />
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That interest in steering significant additional TDC funds to beach safety initiatives has come in the wake of the recent drownings of four tourists due to dangerous surf conditions and in connection with what local public safety officials have called a general resistance of many visitors to stay out of the water when the beach flag warning system indicates that surf conditions are too dangerous.<br />
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Demarest said Thursday that he was surprised by Adkinson&#039;s statements on marketing spending by the TDC, explaining that the 40% spending level &quot;has long been the understanding that the TDC and the BCC (the Walton County Board of County Commissioners) has operated under.&quot;<br />
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&quot;Certainly, (county) staff and the community has been saying that in previous TDC meetings&quot; without being countered, Demarest added.<br />
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&quot;It&#039;s not up to us to make the legal interpretation,&quot; Demarest continued, going on to note that the 40% level of spending on marketing predated Tusa&#039;s arrival as the TDC&#039;s executive director.<br />
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Demarest said Nick came to the TDC&#039;s offices Wednesday for a &quot;courtesy visit to see how we were doing.&quot;<br />
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&quot;He reiterated the importance of the TDC and the job we have to do,&quot; Demarest said.<br />
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Meanwhile, the county already has begun its search for Tusa&#039;s replacement. The day after the commission decision, the careers page on the county&#039;s website listed the executive director&#039;s job, noting a salary range of $84,312 to $200,000. Tusa&#039;s salary was $152,159 annually, but the TDC board had been working to have the commission give him a raise. <br />
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[QUOTE="Matt J, post: 929034, member: 4760"]
He clearly pissed off the wrong person.
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Yeah, not a good idea to lie about not being able to set up a meeting with a commissioner when no effort to do so was made.
Not having a dog in the hunt, I am surprised that 40% less costs of administration isn't the threshold any longer.  It was originally not a stated 40%, but that the base rate of 2% was for marketing and promotion.  As the tax is now 5%,  that makes 2/5 or 40%.  When it was 4%, it would have been 50%.  But, it's been a very long time since I've read statutes relating to the Tourist Development Tax, and you couldn't pay me enough to do that again.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Matt J">He clearly pissed off the wrong person.</blockquote>Yeah, not a good idea to lie about not being able to set up a meeting with a commissioner when no effort to do so was made.<br />
Not having a dog in the hunt, I am surprised that 40% less costs of administration isn&#039;t the threshold any longer.  It was originally not a stated 40%, but that the base rate of 2% was for marketing and promotion.  As the tax is now 5%,  that makes 2/5 or 40%.  When it was 4%, it would have been 50%.  But, it&#039;s been a very long time since I&#039;ve read statutes relating to the Tourist Development Tax, and you couldn&#039;t pay me enough to do that again.

bob1

TDC director is a time consuming and professional position.  Tusa was at nearly every BCC meeting. That is when you should be asking him questions about TDC business. That is why he was at the meetings.

Please vote for considerate and educated candidates.

TDC director is a time consuming and professional position.  Tusa was at nearly every BCC meeting. That is when you should be asking him questions about TDC business. That is why he was at the meetings.<br />
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Please vote for considerate and educated candidates.

[QUOTE="bob1, post: 929157, member: 16511"]
TDC director is a time consuming and professional position.  Tusa was at nearly every BCC meeting. That is when you should be asking him questions about TDC business. That is why he was at the meetings.

Please vote for considerate and educated candidates.
[/QUOTE]
Like most local elections it was the lesser of two evils. I'll take this over repeal of the height restrictions.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="bob1">TDC director is a time consuming and professional position.  Tusa was at nearly every BCC meeting. That is when you should be asking him questions about TDC business. That is why he was at the meetings.<br />
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Please vote for considerate and educated candidates.</blockquote>Like most local elections it was the lesser of two evils. I&#039;ll take this over repeal of the height restrictions.

Bob Wells

[QUOTE="Matt J, post: 929182, member: 4760"]
Like most local elections it was the lesser of two evils. I'll take this over repeal of the height restrictions.
[/QUOTE]
Never have any Candidate or Commissioner supported an increase in height restrictions. The reason I know this is it has been a question that has been asked for years of every candidate.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Matt J">Like most local elections it was the lesser of two evils. I&#039;ll take this over repeal of the height restrictions.</blockquote>Never have any Candidate or Commissioner supported an increase in height restrictions. The reason I know this is it has been a question that has been asked for years of every candidate.

[QUOTE="Bob Wells, post: 929188, member: 8392"]
Never have any Candidate or Commissioner supported an increase in height restrictions. The reason I know this is it has been a question that has been asked for years of every candidate.
[/QUOTE]
[I]Candidate[/I] - the term used BEFORE someone is elected. I think Matt is referring to the dark money that flowed in to candidate accounts from south Florida.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Bob Wells">Never have any Candidate or Commissioner supported an increase in height restrictions. The reason I know this is it has been a question that has been asked for years of every candidate.</blockquote><i>Candidate</i> - the term used BEFORE someone is elected. I think Matt is referring to the dark money that flowed in to candidate accounts from south Florida.

[QUOTE="Jim Tucker, post: 929189, member: 1336"]
[I]Candidate[/I] - the term used BEFORE someone is elected. I think Matt is referring to the dark money that flowed in to candidate accounts from south Florida.
[/QUOTE]
I can say with certainty, I have asked every candidate and those who are current Commissioners that question going as far back as Commissioner Comander was running the first time.  NOT ONE HAD BEEN IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE HEIGHT LIMIT.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Jim Tucker"><i>Candidate</i> - the term used BEFORE someone is elected. I think Matt is referring to the dark money that flowed in to candidate accounts from south Florida.</blockquote>I can say with certainty, I have asked every candidate and those who are current Commissioners that question going as far back as Commissioner Comander was running the first time.  NOT ONE HAD BEEN IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE HEIGHT LIMIT.

[QUOTE="Bob Wells, post: 929191, member: 8392"]
I can say with certainty, I have asked every candidate and those who are current Commissioners that question going as far back as Commissioner Comander was running the first time.  NOT ONE HAD BEEN IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE HEIGHT LIMIT.
[/QUOTE]
All I'm saying is no one is going to tell you they are for it anymore than they will tell you they are for AIDS.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Bob Wells">I can say with certainty, I have asked every candidate and those who are current Commissioners that question going as far back as Commissioner Comander was running the first time.  NOT ONE HAD BEEN IN FAVOR OF INCREASING THE HEIGHT LIMIT.</blockquote>All I&#039;m saying is no one is going to tell you they are for it anymore than they will tell you they are for AIDS.

[QUOTE="Jim Tucker, post: 929192, member: 1336"]
All I'm saying is no one is going to tell you they are for it anymore than they will tell you they are for AIDS.
[/QUOTE]
But that wasn't what I read Matt J to say. I understand your point and would agree except that wasn't part of the discussion. And by your own statement, Matt J could have to be accepting of both because politicians are gonna do what politicians are gonna do.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Jim Tucker">All I&#039;m saying is no one is going to tell you they are for it anymore than they will tell you they are for AIDS.</blockquote>But that wasn&#039;t what I read Matt J to say. I understand your point and would agree except that wasn&#039;t part of the discussion. And by your own statement, Matt J could have to be accepting of both because politicians are gonna do what politicians are gonna do.

[QUOTE="Bob Wells, post: 929195, member: 8392"]
But that wasn't what I read Matt J to say. I understand your point and would agree except that wasn't part of the discussion. And by your own statement, Matt J could have to be accepting of both because politicians are gonna do what politicians are gonna do.
[/QUOTE]

If they weren't in favor of it why take money from condo developers?

If I follow your line of logic a candidate could be entirely funded by beach front homeowners, but as long as they say they're for customary use....

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Bob Wells">But that wasn&#039;t what I read Matt J to say. I understand your point and would agree except that wasn&#039;t part of the discussion. And by your own statement, Matt J could have to be accepting of both because politicians are gonna do what politicians are gonna do.</blockquote><br />
If they weren&#039;t in favor of it why take money from condo developers?<br />
<br />
If I follow your line of logic a candidate could be entirely funded by beach front homeowners, but as long as they say they&#039;re for customary use....

[QUOTE="Matt J, post: 929207, member: 4760"]
If they weren't in favor of it why take money from condo developers?

If I follow your line of logic a candidate could be entirely funded by beach front homeowners, but as long as they say they're for customary use....
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I understand that politicians can lie, but what you implied was firing Tusa was acceptable tradeoff for no change in high-rise restrictions.  All I was pointing out was everyone one, Candidate and Commissioner that I have ever talked to have said they would never support it. Even the one Candidate who advised he would have to see what his constitutes would say about a lot of different issues, was pretty solid on no change in high rise.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Matt J">If they weren&#039;t in favor of it why take money from condo developers?<br />
<br />
If I follow your line of logic a candidate could be entirely funded by beach front homeowners, but as long as they say they&#039;re for customary use....</blockquote>I understand that politicians can lie, but what you implied was firing Tusa was acceptable tradeoff for no change in high-rise restrictions.  All I was pointing out was everyone one, Candidate and Commissioner that I have ever talked to have said they would never support it. Even the one Candidate who advised he would have to see what his constitutes would say about a lot of different issues, was pretty solid on no change in high rise.

[QUOTE="Bob Wells, post: 929208, member: 8392"]
I understand that politicians can lie, but what you implied was firing Tusa was acceptable tradeoff for no change in high-rise restrictions.  All I was pointing out was everyone one, Candidate and Commissioner that I have ever talked to have said they would never support it. Even the one Candidate who advised he would have to see what his constitutes would say about a lot of different issues, was pretty solid on no change in high rise.
[/QUOTE]
I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?
Did that get passed?

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Bob Wells">I understand that politicians can lie, but what you implied was firing Tusa was acceptable tradeoff for no change in high-rise restrictions.  All I was pointing out was everyone one, Candidate and Commissioner that I have ever talked to have said they would never support it. Even the one Candidate who advised he would have to see what his constitutes would say about a lot of different issues, was pretty solid on no change in high rise.</blockquote>I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?<br />
Did that get passed?

[QUOTE="Jim Tucker, post: 929214, member: 1336"]
I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?
Did that get passed?
[/QUOTE]
Good question.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Jim Tucker">I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?<br />
Did that get passed?</blockquote>Good question.

[QUOTE="Jim Tucker, post: 929214, member: 1336"]
I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?
Did that get passed?
[/QUOTE]
According to Commissioner Glidewell it passed 5 to 0.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Jim Tucker">I get where you are coming from. Everyone is against it until they are for it. Perhaps the push for the super majority requirement was a better indicator that they are against repealing height limits?<br />
Did that get passed?</blockquote>According to Commissioner Glidewell it passed 5 to 0.

Professor

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Will be interesting to see if another Louisiana connected person is installed in this position..

Want to have some fun? Study the Louisiana connections of some of the powerful folks here..

Will be interesting to see if another Louisiana connected person is installed in this position..<br />
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Want to have some fun? Study the Louisiana connections of some of the powerful folks here..

30A Skunkape

Skunky

[QUOTE="Professor, post: 929365, member: 39564"]
Will be interesting to see if another Louisiana connected person is installed in this position..

Want to have some fun? Study the Louisiana connections of some of the powerful folks here..
[/QUOTE]
I think it would be good fun to see if the current county commissioners could locate Louisiana on a map.  I bet at least two could not.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="Professor">Will be interesting to see if another Louisiana connected person is installed in this position..<br />
<br />
Want to have some fun? Study the Louisiana connections of some of the powerful folks here..</blockquote>I think it would be good fun to see if the current county commissioners could locate Louisiana on a map.  I bet at least two could not.

Beauford

With a 3-2 vote, Walton County commissioners on Tuesday terminated the employment contract of Jay Tusa, executive director of the county's Tourist Development Council for the past five years.

The ouster was led by Commissioner Mike Barker, elected to the commission in November, and was supported by Commissioner William "Boots" McCormick, who was also newly elected to the commission in November. Joining Barker and McCormick was Commissioner Danny Glidewell, elected to the commission in 2018.

Opposing the termination of Tusa's contract were Commission Chairman Trey Nick, who like Glidewell has served since 2018, and Commissioner Tony Anderson, who has been a commissioner since 2016.

With a 3-2 vote, Walton County commissioners on Tuesday terminated the employment contract of Jay Tusa, executive director of the county&#039;s Tourist Development Council for the past five years.<br />
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The ouster was led by Commissioner Mike Barker, elected to the commission in November, and was supported by Commissioner William &quot;Boots&quot; McCormick, who was also newly elected to the commission in November. Joining Barker and McCormick was Commissioner Danny Glidewell, elected to the commission in 2018.<br />
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Opposing the termination of Tusa&#039;s contract were Commission Chairman Trey Nick, who like Glidewell has served since 2018, and Commissioner Tony Anderson, who has been a commissioner since 2016.

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