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Charles "Chuck" Chestnut IV
Commissioner
District 5
Alachua County, FL
Statements in public meetings
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at 1:51:51And we're here today to present this formally to the commission with the idea that you would take some action to move this forward if you so deem that you'd like to.
at 1:52:15When Mike is done, I'll go into next steps and talk about some of the conditions that would be unique to Alachua County that we would present as well.
at 17:27So, I would suggest that we stay with the matching the county policy as well as the city policy,
at 41:18I think if we could take the colors from number three and put them in number one and keep the design of number one, that might work.
at 16:51From February 19th, 1874 to February the 6th of 1875, and whereas he has served as mayor of Noonansville from 1875 to 1877, and with fellow activists helped establish the Florida First Biracial Independent Party.
at 17:16And whereas in 1887, he launched the Gainesville Sentinel, later moving to Pensacola in 1894, where his newspaper became the Florida Sentinel and was recognized among the top 10 black-owned newspapers in the United States.
at 28:35And whereas more than half of gun owners do not lock all of their firearms securely and approximately 4.6 million children in the United States live in a home with at least one unlocked and loaded firearm.
at 29:49I do hereby proclaim August 25th through 29th, August 2025, Be Smart Week in Alonso County, Florida, duly proclaimed this 26th day of August A.D. 2025, signed by yours truly, and attest by J.K. Ershbury, the clerk.