One situation where both the departments (and others within the city government) could save a great deal of money is to limit the “take home” privilege of automobiles to those that are on paid call-out standby.

A few years ago The TPD also forfeited their contractual salary increase for about half a year to “save” 11 officers from being laid off

TPD has been working without a contract since October 1,2013. No salary increase, no cost of living increase.

TAPP is paid for by grants from FDEP I believe to make public service announcements, so I don’t know how Nancy Miller substantiates that it saved the city money? If not for the grants the city would not expend the funds themselves so there is no savings to the city that applies here. Totally a misrepresentation by Miller.

In fact, the city wasted much of the grant money by awarding the contract to Nancy Miller’s campaign manager, Gary Yordon.

The ads could have been produced by WCOT at a much lower cost to save money rather than paying her campaign manager to produce the ads.

“So what?” The motivation behind the decision matters greatly. Failure to recognize that the ONLY reason this has happened is because TR exposed the issue condemns this community to the same continued pathetic leadership. Not just elected, but appointed. We have a chance to overhaul City Hall in August/November. It is imperative voters do NOT take a “So what?” attitude about this and all of the other issues that have plagued Tallahassee for more than a decade. It is time to clean house, the best we can, downtown. Need more reasons? Just read the TR archives.