Wink and a nod: Time for Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority chairman to resign
Editor's Note: Deb Denys, a New Smyrna Beach resident and an announced candidate for the Volusia County Council dist. 3 seat representing Southeast Volusia, is calling for the resignation of SVAA Chairman David Kosmas. Here is her guest blog on the controversy surrounding the ad authority:
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Without excuse, our tourist economy and community deserve better. Revelations of the last couple months, draws the glaring conclusion that the chair of the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority (David Kosmas) either is unwilling or unable to exercise due diligence of the position as chair of an ad authority.
It is the chair’s responsibility to oversee the board, agenda, reporting, and ultimately the executive director. The days of governing with a ‘wink and a nod’ are over.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Martin Truex Jr. won the pole for today's 34th annual Budweisrer Shootour at Daytona Internationl Spedway.
NSBNews.net photo by Henry Frederick / Former New Smyrna Beach Mayor Sally Mackay confers with her "Hub" group's attorney, Bill Preston, during Monday night's City Commission meeting.
NSBNews.net photo by Sera Frederick / Robert Lott, shown here running a recent workshop of the Edgewater economic development advisory board, was its chairman despite a history of financial and legal troubles including the folding of the weekly Observer, foreclosure proceedings on his Riverside Drive residence where he was running the paper until it folded in November and he's awaiting court action on a lawsuit filed by an 82-year-old New Smyrna Beach widow who alleging she was defrauded of $60,000.