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On August 15th, the Network of Entrepreneurs and Business Advocates held their monthly meeting, hosting Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad along-side Chief of Police Lawrence Revell. Both spoke on the City increasing the TPD’s budget by $9.5 million by increasing property taxes, moving the millage rate from 4.2 to 4.5.
Tallahassee Police are investigating an early morning shooting near FAMU Way and South Adams Street. The incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. but when local law enforcement arrived on the scene, they did not find a victim. Approximately an hour later, a victim walked into a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. No arrests have yet been made while the investigation is ongoing.
A shooting occurred outside a Trapican Way gas station early Wednesday morning. The incident occurred around 1:20 a.m. and a woman was seriously injured. Two men were arguing with each other when one man drew a gun attempting to shoot the other, but missed and hit the woman instead. The woman was hospitalized in a serious condition. TPD has made an arrest.
FLORIDA NEWS
In a bold move that aims to reshape the grocery landscape in the southeast U.S., Aldi has announced plans to acquire Southeastern Grocers Inc. (SEG), the parent company of Jacksonville-headquartered Winn-Dixie, and Harveys Supermarket stores.
The costs for protecting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his family and visiting officials rose sharply over the last year as the Republican presidential hopeful embarked on an aggressive travel schedule and entered the GOP primary.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended Trump after his fourth indictment calling it the “criminalization of politics.” DeSantis said, “And so they’re now doing an inordinate amount of resources to try to shoehorn this contest over the 2020 election into a RICO statute, which was really designed to be able to go after organized crime, not necessarily to go after political activity.”
SPORTS NEWS
No. 6 Florida State soccer opens their season tonight on the road against Texas A&M. Florida State is coming off its third consecutive College Cup appearance and its third consecutive ACC Championship. The game can be viewed tonight at 8:00 p.m. on the SEC Network.
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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Preston Scott asked, what would it take to make you move out of Florida. Answer High Property taxes and High Home Owners Insurance.
City and County need to go to Zero Based Bugeting, thus, justify every line item, yearly
@ Jon = Hardly any now. Most get solved with in a couple weeks or less.
How many of these attempted murders go unsolved?
I expected the costs for protecting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his family and visiting officials to go up sharply over the last year because it is election season and he is running for President and everyone else who is running for President is coming here to Campaign. When Scott was Governor and Ran for State Office it rose then too. The only difference is the Economy, thanks to Biden everything is 400 to 1000% higher.
“moving the millage rate from 4.2 to 4.5”
The State just voted to raised our Property Tax, you’re going to, the County wants to, the CSC wants to and also the School Board wants to. When you are all done, what will out Tax Rate be then.
With all the new Construction happening over the last few Years, our Property Taxes should be going DOWN.
Get rid of the CSC, that will fix that issue.
Have TPD start pulling over every Vehicle that has Tail Lights & Head Lights out and Bad Tags, that will fix that issue.
Have the County & City Commissioners stop building new Parks and Walking & Bike Trails for 5 Years, that will fix that issue.
I have a great plan to raise Money to add Class Rooms to Elementary & Jr. High Schools to lower the number of Students per Class Room so that should help the Teachers and LCSB needs to STOP wasting Money so, that will help their issue.
Our Property Taxes should be going DOWN.