At the last city commission meeting, elected officials voted 5-0 to authorize the Tallahassee city manager to negotiate and execute a contract with FSU on a 10-year Seminole Express and U-Pass agreement and for staff to initiate the procurement of 15 buses compatible with the City’s electric bus system. The contract will provide an estimated $53.2 […]
The Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency Board of Directors (IA Board) met today to address funding and project delivery for the first five years of the Blueprint 2020 program. The end result was the approval of a schedule (Option C) that will begin the construction to improve Bannerman Road up to Tekesta Road beginning in the year 2023. […]
Rob Renzi, the CEO of Big Bend Cares and Care Point, believes that the United Way “has lost their way.” Renzi, who is a Leadership Giving Donor to United Way, in comments submitted to Tallahassee Reports, said he believes “the stand-alone United Way process of funding community programs is riddled with flaws, questionable practices, unjustified […]
After approximately 80 public speakers, the Leon County Commission voted to place a referendum on the 2020 ballot to fund a Children’s Services Council (CSC). The vote was 7-0. Supporters of the CSC had urged the Commission to place the question on the 2018 ballot. However, concerns about the lack of a plan and a […]
Days before a vote by the Leon County Commission on the Children’s Services Council (CSC), the Tallahassee Democrat reported there were eight CSC’s in the state of Florida and that Leon County could become the ninth. However, this is incorrect. To date, nine Florida counties have created CSC’s that invest property tax dollars in the […]
On February 28, 2018 city staff was directed by city commissioners to reconsider a $1.1 million project award due to a protest by DPB & Associates – a contractor with family ties to City Commissioner Nancy Miller and with city management staff. Now, four months later, city staff is recommending that the city commission award […]
In a recent interview on WFLA’s Morning Show with Preston Scott (100.7 FM), Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis discussed his campaign for governor. DeSantis, who was first elected in the US House in 2012, is a former Navy lawyer that graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History and from Harvard Law School. DeSantis told Scott that […]
Does Dustin Daniel’s non-response to an interview request mean Daniels, if elected as Tallahassee’s new mayor, will continue at least one policy of his former boss, Mayor Andrew Gillum — Gillum’s contentious, combative attitude toward Tallahassee Reports? Hopefully not. Tallahassee Reports reached out to Daniels to include him in the paper’s ongoing political profiles of […]
By Lloyd Dunkelberger, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Only four of the 13 state constitutional amendments on the November ballot have enough voter support to be enacted, according to a poll from the Florida Chamber of Commerce. The poll, conducted in late May and early June, showed four amendments with the necessary 60 percent […]
Bob Rackleff recently appeared on WFLA’s (100.7 FM) Morning Show with Preston Scott to speak about his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s second district, which spans 19 counties from Panama City to Crystal River. Rackleff previously served as a speechwriter for the Obama administration and has also served as a Leon County Commissioner. […]