- October 29, 2024
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Paul Anderson is making his third attempt at running for a public office in Flagler County.
Anderson, a resident of Palm Coast for the past 18 years, previously ran for a seat on the Flagler County School Board in 2016 and again in 2018. He's currently gunning for the Flagler County Commission's District 5 seat.
His main initiative?
"I'm running because I'm tired of the last two years of decisions that our county commissioners have made that is making it harder to keep our taxes down," said Anderson, whose wife is a county employee and whose child is a student at Matanzas High School. "My whole campaign is focused on making sure that Flagler County residents don't pay for things that we don't need and that their taxes don't go up because of mistakes made by the past commission."
Anderson, a small business owner since 2009, said he wants to help "fix the things that have put us into financial jeopardy."
Among those poor real estate decisions, Anderson cited the Sheriff's Operation Center and the former Sears outlet building off Palm Coast Parkway, which the County Commission purchased for $1.25 million in November 2018 -- before discovering the 8,000-square-foot structure was full of mold.
“I do my homework," Anderson said. "I don’t usually say something unless I already have the background information on it. I think that’s lacking in our current county commission, and it shows in purchases like the Sears building."
