Here’s the cliffnotes from yesterday’s City Council committee meetings. Remember that items approved by committees then proceed to the regular Thursday night Council meeting to be approved or disapproved by the full Council.
Committee of the Whole
*Dr. Coy Irvin appeared to thank the City for its help with the Celebrate Pensacola 450th anniversary festivities. Everyone patted one another on the back.
*Staff provided to Council the “initial evaluation” of the CMPA development agreement by Abramson and Associates.
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On the agenda for Monday’s meetings of the various committees of the Pensacola City Council (the last committee meetings of the current Council!):
Committee of the Whole
Dr. Coy Irvin will give a presentation on the Celebrate Pensacola 450th anniversary festivities.
Staff will provide to Council the “initial evaluation” of the CMPA development agreement by Abramson and Associates.
Community [...]
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What a year.
Politically, I’ve never had so much fun. Although my candidate didn’t win every race, I think more of them went my way than didn’t. We have four new faces on the Pensacola City Council. Three women. Younger faces. Councilmen with 15 and 20 year tenures were toppled. A corrupt, disgraceful, bigot of a [...]
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The PNJ ran a nice feel-good piece today about how the two mothers of young children elected to the Pensacola City Council (those two being Maren DeWeese and Megan Benson Pratt) bright “new insight” to the Council. I hope they’re right. I hope that being the mother of young children would spur one to think [...]
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Mark O’Brien has two noteworthy pieces in today’s PNJ. The first is a puff piece about all the good things that outgoing Citu Council members have done; in the second, he offers his thoughts on a variety of local government issues in his traditional “O’pinions” style.
He makes a comment in the second piece that I [...]
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The Independent News ran a viewpoint of mine about City staff and agenda-setting and whatnot in today’s issue.
Links
IN: “City Staff Steers Council”
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Here’s an initiative from City staff we can all applaud. Each member of the Pensacola City Council will soon get a personal laptop, complete with computer training from the city’s MIS department. This will both improve processes and save the City some money.
In particular, the City will make sure each Council member knows how to [...]
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Sean Boone of the Independent News has an interview with lame duck Councilman Jack Nobles up on Rick’s Blog.
Councilman Nobles has tempered his rhetoric. After the meeting last Thursday, I overheard Nobles describing Councilman Hall’s early exit as “just about the lowest thing” he’d seen in his political career.
Now he’s calling it “unfortunate,” although he [...]
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A few area posts I want to highlight today:
Troy Moon: “Thou shalt sin no more, say Holy 3″
The PNJ’s Troy Moon offers up some cute news commentary on the recent decision by the Escambia County Commission to not allow poker at the greyhound track:
A Moral Majority of elders from The First Church of the Hardened [...]
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Update: O’Brien has rewritten his piece with Councilman Hall’s side of the story; he’s now calling it “Tale of two smells.”
PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien roasted Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall in a piece today in response to Hall’s early exit from last Thursday night’s Council meeting. The story is peppered with quality quotes from Mike Pate [...]
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Pensacola City Councilmembers-elect will take place in an all day “orientation session” tomorrow for 8:00 AM-5:00 PM, in the second floor conference room at Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport.
As Councilmembers-elect are subject to Florida Sunshine laws, their collected presence requires the session to be open to the public. They’ll even stamp your parking.
Attachments
121308OrientationSession.pdf
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Tonight’s City Council was not the marathon of excitement the last one was, but it had its moments.
Absent were Mayor John Fogg, Councilman Mike DeSorbo, and for most of the meeting, Councilman Sam Hall. Mayor Fogg had a death in the family, and Councilman DeSorbo is recovering from surgery. Councilman Hall was present at the [...]
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