Round-up, 11.10.09
Tags: Charter Review / Pensacola City Council / Rick Outzen
A few items we wanted to highlight today:
Committee meeting cancelled due to St. Louis trip. Five City Council members and two City staffers will travel to St. Louis next Monday to meet with a housing development company. The seven will be part of a 15-member delegation that will meet with McCormack Baron Salazar, which has extensive experience in large mixed-income housing developments. The Downtown Improvement Board has been courting the firm to pursue such a development in downtown Pensacola. The City will spend a total of $2,438 on airfare and an overnight hotel stay for the seven City officials.
The delegation is set to leave next Monday, November 16, on which date City Council committee meetings are set to be held; because there will not be a quorum, City Manager Al Coby tells Progressive Pensacola that next week’s Council committee meetings will be cancelled. He will wait until Tuesday, November 17 to decide whether or not to cancel the regular Council meeting scheduled for November 19.
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor arguments. Rick’s Blog has a set of posts up today “deconstructing” the arguments of the anti-Charter group No Boss Mayor. See parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the series.
Open letter about No Boss Mayor finances. Rick Outzen, the publisher of the Independent News and Rick’s Blog, has sent an open letter to the No Boss Mayor group requesting their latest financial data:
Since this report, No Boss Mayor has had several large campaign expenditures – a mailer to the voters and two automated phone calls, one from Jerry Maygarden and the second from P. C. Wu. These expenditures did not appear in the PAC’s Oct. 30, 2009 campaign finance report … We are therefore requesting the campaign contributions and expenditures of the No Boss Mayor Political Action Committee since the Oct. 30, 2009 campaign report. It is indeed instructional to see who is supporting or opposing an idea. [Pro-charter group] Believe in a Better Pensacola has already released their information.
Tropical Storm Ida. Last night’s tropical storm came and went with little more than some rain, wind, and minor flooding. The News Journal wraps up all the excitement, and NorthEscambia.com has pretty thorough coverage as well. According to City Manager Al Coby, “no City facilities sustained any damage of significance.”
Subscribe to our feed
Get updates via email
Follow us on Twitter
This is a waist of money mixed income housing with this staff is a joke. Look at Aregon, there is supposed to be 22 lots for low to moderate income housing in Aregon. I will eat my hat if anyone living in Aregon is low to moderate income.
So called affordable housing in North Hill- some of the same developers as Aragon
City gives away property and the affodable housing sports over $100,000.00.
If you can’t afford to buy, the city has those ugly octagonal shaped rental duplexes the same group built all around town. The architect claimed that design fit in an historic city.
As Thad Cohen said he wondered as a child, why does that housing have to look so U. G. L. Y.
It’s all about the money, for the developer, not providing housing.
Meanwhile the city does little or nothing to improve the neighborhoods in the older neighborhoods which could provide real affordable housing, like Eastside.