August 16, 2016 – Brevard Times
After three years and tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars spent in legal fees, the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast (EDC) produced documents to Brevard County Clerk of Court, Scott Ellis.
A cursory review of the documents show that EDC President, Lynda Weatherman, referred to BlueWare’s management as “goofy” and instructed staff to obtain a confidentiality extension from BlueWare days after Ellis had already made a public records request. Weatherman specifically instructed staff to make the request to BlueWare without ” … looking like we are “asking for it” just the usual stuff… ”
Since 2013, Ellis has maintained that the EDC and BlueWare back-dated the confidentiality extension after confidentiality had lapsed.
The documents also show that the EDC pushed the BlueWare project through for economic development incentive money despite red flags raised by Enterprise Florida. [READ MORE]