Comments on: City Commissioner Salary Increase Received Overwhelming Support from Southside Voters

By: Sandra Lowe

Sandra Lowe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:42 +0000

This is absolutely ridiculous and it should be illegal to give YOURSELF a pay raise. I applaud everyone who voted against giving these people a two fold salary increase!!!! Someone should find something in the Charter or wherever, and have this repealed. I am sure most people in Tallahassee don’t even come close to making even $48,000 thousand dollars a year
That’s shameful! We recently had the NO KINGS parade. I encourage everyone to protest this “raise” which should have been completely illegal in the first place.

By: Staff

Staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:57:43 +0000

In reply to Reader. City commissioners are not elected by district. They are all elected at-large. They all represent "one district".

By: August West

August West — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:43:27 +0000

If PRR really thinks that… it is a moron. I paid more in property taxes this year, than that stupid redneck has paid in all its wretched years on this rock. So, go ahead and write something else that is as galactically stupid as “Southsider’s don’t pay taxes”. You idiot.

By: David T. Hawkins

David T. Hawkins — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:03:38 +0000

All they did was use the same style word play to get the CSC Voted in.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:52:57 +0000

Waste or not, the voters, not the commissioners, made the decision to pay city commissioners the same as county commissioners. There are some valid reasons for doing so, not the least of which is that the city commission is the most populous part of the county, has a far larger budget than the county, and operates a large utility. And the support seems to me to be widespread, not just southside support. Four of the five districts supported the proposal. And to suggest that District 4 is the only one of the five districts that pays taxes is self-serving and more than misleading.

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:39:54 +0000

Mr. Stewart, you could have added the names of the commissioners beside each district.

By: Proud Rural Redneck

Proud Rural Redneck — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:43:11 +0000

The Southside doesn’t pay any taxes. Why do we let people that don’t contribute dictate how to spend other’s money?

By: David West

David West — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:14:44 +0000

The only people with any sense as a group were in District 4. The majority of us voted against that idiotic waste of our money. I’d wager that District 4 voted against the Children’s Services tax, too. The overwhelming support for wasting taxes comes from the districts who pay the smallest proportion of taxes. Maybe district 4 should form its own city and secede from the City.

Steve – you live in District 4, I’d vote for you for Mayor of the new city.

By: August West

August West — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:14:26 +0000

Those crooks double their own salaries while begrudging others a 5% raise. If that is truly how south siders feel, they must all be dumber than dirt.

I say that as a proud Rickards Redskin…