- December 16, 2025
Although the Tourist Development Council previously approved, by a vote of 6-1, an $800,000 budget proposal including salary increases for three tourism employees, the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, at the Sept. 7 meeting, denied the raises.
“We have to be good stewards of that money,” County Commissioner Barbara Revels said. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, agree to something like that when the rest of our community is in such distress.”
Peggy Heiser, vice president of tourist development for the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates, presented the budget/marketing plan to the TDC board at an Aug. 17 meeting. Raises would have benefited her and two other full-time employees.
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