Today, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson released her proposed budget for 2015-16. In a city press release entitled “City Manager Releases Proposed Public Safety Budget”, Ms. Favors recommends hiring 18 police officers and 16 fireman.Ms. Favors also proposes a $10.8 million property tax increase. The property tax rate would increase by 27% from 3.7 mills […]
On June 19, 2014, Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeff Burlew wrote an article entitled “School employee becomes whistle-blower, former secretary files lawsuit.” Tallahassee Reports has recently learned that the Tallahassee Democrat labeled part of the article as gossip, gossip that almost one year later has no independent factual basis. In the article, Burlew reported accusations from […]
Single-Family homes sales in Leon county continued to increase in the month of May as did average sale prices. For the month of May, 273 single-family homes were sold in Leon County for an average price of $244,880. Both numbers are 12-month highs. Since 2010, when single-family home sales reached a 12-month low of 1,499, […]
The City of Tallahassee released construction data for May 2015. The numbers show that single-family construction continues to slow. The chart below shows that the 12 month total number of permits fell for the second month in a row. The last time this happened was in May and June of 2014. Since April 2015 the […]
It appears the City of Tallahassee’s lack of attention to public safety over the last nine years has not been limited to funding for more police officers. During a recent City budget workshop, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson took time to tell City Commissioners that the City’s Police Department building, located on Seventh Avenue, is […]
Best selling writer Peter Schweizer, who’s most recent work – Clinton Cash – is currently #3 on the New York Times Best selling list, has been ignored by the local media. Other than a visit on WFLA’s Morning Show with Preston Scott, Schweizer has not scored any local coverage in the Tallahassee Democrat, on WFSU, […]
The latest FDLE report on crime in the state of Florida found that Leon County was ranked number one in crimes per 100,000 residents for 2014. Tallahassee Reports investigated the numbers and found that incidents in the City of Tallahassee was the cause for the number one ranking. Without the city numbers, the county jurisdiction […]
This past Thursday the Tallahassee Board of Realtors (TBR) issued a memorandum to “Broker Members” regarding “the uncertainty around the Killearn Golf and Country Club and the potential effects on the property in the Killearn neighborhood.” The memorandum alerted “Broker Members” that TBR had asked their legal counsel to craft disclosure language in anticipation of […]
On Wednesday the City Commission voted to allow the owner of the Killearn Country Club to demolish the Inn, but not before some concessions and a warning from one City Commissioner. The concessions came out of a meeting with the developer, the City and the representatives of the Killearn Homeowners Association. The item had been […]
While crime in Florida was at a 44-year low in 2014, the crime rate in Leon County increased from 4,720 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2013 to 5,049 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2014. With this increase, Leon County leads Florida in crime rate. The statewide crime rate continued a downward trend and ended 2014 […]