TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Commission on Ethics (FCOE) and Fort Pierce City Planner Vennis Gilmore are expected to ratify a stipulated agreement July 25 that will allow Gilmore to keep his job and pay a $1,000 fine for his role in the 2020 bid-rigging to lease city property.
According to a FCOE statement obtained Monday by Hometown News, Gilmore will admit his role in his non-profit, Lincoln Park Young Professionals (LPYP), obtaining two, city-owned Avenue D vacant lots in a bidding process believed to have been designed to favor LPYP.
In exchange, state ethics investigators are urging the FCOE to approve recommendations for Gilmore’s “public censure and reprimand” and his paying a $1,000 civil penalty…