A few items we wanted to highlight today:
CMP groundbreaking. The long-awaited groundbreaking on the Community Maritime Park project was held last night. In the coming weeks, a security fence will be erected around the site, and crews will begin clearing overgrowth.
UWF Board meets today. The UWF Board of Trustees meets today and will make two important decisions. Firstly, the board will decide the final location of…
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Below is the breakdown of what the Pensacola City Council will consider in the coming week. As always, direct expenditures are highlighted. Links to the full agendas are included at the bottom of the page.
Note: This meeting will take place on Monday, July 6. The meeting begins at 9:00 AM in the Hagler/Mason Conference Room, second floor, City Hall. The Finance Committee, the Economic and Community Development Committee, and the Community Redevelopment Agency will not meet.
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A few items I wanted to highlight today:
Pensacola News Journal:
“Escambia fuel tax fails”
The Escambia County Commission declined to pass a proposed three-cent increase to the gas tax…
Rick’s Blog: “Crist visits Pensacola”
Sam Hall:
“To tree or not to tree” and “Certainty”
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A few other things I wanted to highlight from yesterday’s Council committee meetings:
The Committee of the Whole meeting, where most of the contentious items were discussed, lasted about four hours and 50 minutes, ending at 8:09 PM. Most of the time was spent on three issues: the Community Maritime Park, the pension study, and the airport hotel lease. Regarding the airport hotel lease, Councilwoman Diane Mack’s much-publicised proposal that City Council break the contract with Julian MacQueen died for lack of a second…
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Update: Lakin was fired.
Travis Lakin, who has recently come under fire for storing a boat at ECAT facilities and allegedly using ECAT labour and material to refurbish the boat, is no longer the general manger of ECAT.
It is unclear at this time whether Lakin resigned or was terminated by Veolia Transportation, the company which manages [...]
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Travis Lakin, the general manager of Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) has been suspended in the midst of allegations he stored a personal boat at ECAT’s headquarters and used ECAT labour and resources (which are funded by taxpayers) to restore and rebuild the boat. The video alleges that the boat received “a complete rebuild of [...]
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