Archive for the ‘City of Pensacola’ Category
Oh, snap.
Rick Outzen is reporting that PNS Hotel Group, Ltd., a consortium of developers, has filed suit against the City of Pensacola over its lease of property at Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Sandspur Development, LLC for the purposes of developing a hotel and other commercial properties. PNS Hotel Group is comprised of Bob Cleveland, Dave Cleveland, Jim Cronley, Tony Terhaar, Darryl Lapointe, and John Connell, and owns and manages three hotels in the Airport area.
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The PNJ’s Jamie Page reports that the phones at ECUA are ringing off the hook due to heavy demand for recycling containers. I’m glad to see it. As you know, ECUA, which serves the unincorporated areas of Escambia County, has designed and swiftly implemented a curbside recycling program — even lowering rates in the process. Meanwhile those of us in the City (most of us, at least) lag behind because the City can’t won’t cough up $1 million for recycling containers.
I could literally find the $1 million in about three and a half minutes. It’s a lack of will, and a lack of pressure from the citizenry, which allows the City to drag its feet here.
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Escambia County is now accepting registrants for its second Citizen’s Academy class. Participants will learn about various County departments and the services they provide, as well as how to better interact with the County government.
Space is limited to 20 people. The classes will be held on Tuesdays from 5:30-8:00 PM, starting on January 6 and [...]
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Last year, City employees were given the choice of migrating to the Florida Retirement System (FRS) pension plan or remaining in the more lucrative private City plan. 345 City employees opted to remain in the City pension plan. All new City employees are mandated into FRS.
According to City Director of Finance Dick Barker, the City [...]
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Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall has come out in favour of full City-County unification:
I like the Jacksonville model.
My hope is that the Century, ECUA, Escambia County, and Pensacola governments agree to come under one authority.
I’m all for consolidation of certain departments and services; but I much prefer City expansion to the kind of full [...]
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District 2 Councilman Sam Hall posted today on the proposed Automatic Aid Response Agreement which I railed against last week. It’s worthwhile reading.
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Currently, the City of Pensacola and Escambia County have a mutual agreement to provide police and fire services to each other when requested. For example, if there was a fire in the County, but there was a Pensacola Fire Department station closer to the fire, Escambia County could request that PFD respond, and we typically [...]
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For those of you who didn’t know, there are eighteen boards, authorities, and commissions that perform a variety of functions, advisory to quasi-legislative, for the City of Pensacola. Many of these boards are stacked with special interests. That’s because the system is designed to shut regular citizens out. Right now, whenever a [...]
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The following is a final list of the candidates for City offices as of the end of qualifying:
John Jerralds (PCC-5) is reelected without opposition.
District 1
Bob Walker
P. C. Wu (incumbent)
District 2
Sam Hall (incumbent)
Peter Saccomanno
District 3
Mike DeSorbo (incumbent)
Todd Fisher
Maren Laycock DeWeese
District 4
W. Rhette Anderson
Marty Donovan (incumbent)
Larry B. Johnson
District 5
John Jerralds (incumbent)
District 6
Jewel Cannada-Wynn (incumbent)
Jeffery A. Humbles
District 7
Jacqueline [...]
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Update: Jeffery A. Humbles has qualified.
Update II: Robbie Andrews has qualified.
As of 11:30 this morning, all declared candidates for City offices had qualified and will be on the ballot, with the exception of Jeffery A. Humbles, who has pre-filed but not yet qualified for Council District 6, and late entrant Robbie C. Andrews, who filed [...]
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Candidate qualifying for City of Pensacola elected offices (the mayoralty and Council) takes place this week and wraps up at noon on Friday, July 11.
Want to run? To get in a race it’s just $283.38 for the mayoralty race or $189.98 for a Council race. If you sign an Affidavit of Undue Burden it’s [...]
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As I predicted, the City’s followed suit and announced a pilot recycling program for about 400 East Hill homes. The program will supply an extra 90-gallon container for recyclables, and reduce garbage pickup to once-weekly, replacing the second pickup with one for recyclables. At current the pilot program plans to do this at no additional [...]
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