Comments on: City Budget Balanced by Increase in Transfer from Electric Fund

By: Mayor Nucklehead

Mayor Nucklehead — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:21:34 +0000

Thanks for detailing this information, Steve. One thing I would point out is that it should not be too surprising that the City balances its budget with money from the utilities. With so many of the properties inside the City boundaries not even being on the tax roles, the way the City can bring in additional revenues from the State government buildings who are not on the property tax roles is through utility consumption. I expect the City to actually raise either utility rates or property taxes in the near future because as Richard points out above we are always in danger of the next hurricane and if we keep stealing from the utility reserve we are putting ourselves in a perilous position.

By: Richard P. Chase

Richard P. Chase — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:39:45 +0000

Yet another reactive decision made by the city manager and her cast of clowns. Somebody is forgetting that Tallahassee and this general area is always in danger of being the target of the next hurricane. Can’t the outages be remembered? The cost of reconstruction of the electric facilities could exceed the five million dollar mark with a storm of the size of Kate – which wasn’t even a hurricane strength by the time it reached Tallahassee.

Way past time for a huge change in leadership in city government in my opinion.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:36:47 +0000

“City Manager Anita Favors relayed to the Commissioners that the Police Chief said that “Tallahassee is ranked second in the state of Florida, only behind Miami, in per-capita violent crime.””

Remember when the editor of the Tallahassee Democrat,Bob Gabordi, disputed the high crime stats in our area refusing to believe the data because it made the sheriff look bad?

The city commissioners refusing to add officers is reprehensible and validates the incompetency of Miller and Gillum regarding public safety. Add in Scott Maddox’s alliance with the sheriff and his agenda to constantly undermine TPD and we have leaders who have done nothing to make the community safer. If citizens want a safer community perhaps they should be serious about voting out Miller and Gillum in the August election.