- December 23, 2024
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Palm Coast resident Fernando Melendez is running for the Flagler County Commission District 1 seat.
Melendez is a former board member on the 2021 Palm Coast Redistricting Commission Board and a former board member and a former chair on the Flagler County Planning and Development Advisory Board. In 2022, Melendez ran for a Palm Coast City Council seat.
Melendez moved to Flagler County six years ago from upstate New York, according to his biography on the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections website. Flagler County has faced multiple challenges, including fiscal shortfall, lagging infrastructure improvements, rising crime, bad investments, bad costly policy decision making, and irresponsible rezonings, Melendez said.
If elected, he said, he wants to restore “integrity and confidence” back into the Flagler County Commission through bold new leadership. Melendez said he wants to use a comprehensive new strategy of working together to advance the interest of all citizens by implementing sound and limited self-governance.
“The people of Flagler County want a new approach,” he said.
Melendez said his main qualifications are a combination of experience, skills, and resources, the press release said. Melendez as an elected union official representing over 14,000 drivers and has a bachelor’s degree in human services and psychology from Boricua College in New York, a master’s degree in political science.
