In the waning minutes of last week’s city commission meeting, elected officials voted unanimously to approve a measure to allow the City of Tallahassee to bid on the purchase of the Northwood Mall. The issue was not listed on the meeting agenda, but was brought up by Mayor John Dailey near the end of the […]
After a workshop last week related to airport governance, the City of Tallahassee decided not to move forward with a governance feasibility study which was estimated to cost $150,000. The issue of airport governance, which has been part of the economic development discussion for years, reached a higher since of urgency when the Greater Tallahassee […]
Roxanne Manning, the executive director of the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), was terminated by City Manager Reese Goad today. The termination follows a CRA workshop on Monday night in Frenchtown where speakers were highly critical of CRA management. For example, a member of the Frenchtown/Southside Citizen’s Advisory Committee -which advises the CRA – told […]
While the Democrat party narrative on social media and in the main stream media continue to be dominated by far left positions on everything from immigration to abortion, the New York Times reports on data from the Hidden Tribes Project that shows a different perspective. Journalists Nate Cohn and Kevin Quealy of the NYT write […]
At its retreat on January 16, 2019, the City Commission directed staff to implement a process which would expand the number of people notified of actions taken by the Development Review Committee and the Board of Adjustment and Appeals. The Development Review Committee deals with land use regulations and the Board of Adjustment and Appeals […]
Citing “a lot of discussion of restoring the image of the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency)”, City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow has issued a memo proposing changes to how the Tallahassee CRA conducts business. One of these changes include having the CRA Executive Director report directly to the CRA Board instead of the city manager. The CRA, […]
Next week Republican voters will go to the polls to choose between four candidates in the primary special election for Florida House District 7. Voters are tasked with choosing between candidates that are all running as conservatives. The candidates include Mike Watkins, Lynda Bell, Jason Shoaf and Virginia Fuller. The media buzz and campaign donations […]
The Leon County School Board is set to vote this Monday on a $100,000 settlement with former superintendent Jackie Pons. The legal dispute is related to a Board policy that Pons believes required LCS to hire him as a principal after he lost his re-election bid in 2016 to Rocky Hanna. Board Policy 1430 states […]
It is official, as of March 29, 2019 former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is now the Chairman of the “Forward Florida” Political Action Committee (PAC). Gillum lists his address as 240 North Magnolia Drive in Tallahassee. PAC’s can accept contributions or make expenditures to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate or issue. Politico […]
A number of Tallahassee government, business, and community leaders headed to Greenville, S.C. this week on a fact finding tour that is scheduled to last until Wednesday. One of the reported purposes of the trip is to determine if there are any economic development ideas being implemented in Greenville that can be replicated here in […]