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County attorney authorized to solicit and negotiate RFQ to replace special magistrate for code enforcement

3680145 · June 5, 2025
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Summary

After the county’s special magistrate resigned, commissioners authorized a request-for-qualifications and gave the county attorney authority to negotiate a contract with the highest-ranked candidate, with a 5-0 vote.

Suwannee County commissioners voted unanimously June 3 to authorize a request for qualifications to hire a replacement special magistrate to hear county code-enforcement cases and to let the county attorney negotiate with the top-ranked candidate.

County Attorney Adam Morrison told the board the current magistrate, Rick Schutte, had resigned and the county had accumulated a backlog of…

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