When the City Attorney and City Auditor filled the in-house ethics officer position last month, they passed on hiring the former General Counsel of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who also served as the agency’s Chief Ethics Officer. Tallahassee Reports has learned that the City of Tallahassee narrowed the selection of the City’s Ethic […]
A group of Killearn Estates Homeowners has filed a court action with regards to a redevelopment plan proposed by the current owner of the Killearn Golf and Country Club. The Killearn Estates Homeowners Association is not a party to the suit. The redevelopment plan was announced last month. The plan called for the closing of […]
On October 23, 2014, the Leon County Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) voted to give the new owner of the downtown Double Tree Hotel $883,000 in tax dollars to help with the hotel renovation. The CRA is comprised of nine members, including the five City of Tallahassee Commissioners along with four of the seven Leon County […]
Killearn Country Club has recently provided detailed answers to twenty-one questions that arose during meetings with the Killearn Homeowners Association and the Killearn Country Club members about redevelopment plans. The questions and answers are listed below. Questions 1. Does the owner have the right to close the entire 27-hole golf course in 2021? Answer: Yes. […]
Using publicly available information, Tallahassee Reports has built a data base of donations and expenditures for this past cycle of local elections. The data base includes information on over $800,000 in donations and $600,000 in expenditures. The data base covers donations and expenditures for all candidates seeking election to the Leon County Board of Commissioners […]
Joleen Williams has wrestled with the City of Tallahassee over drainage issues since work began next to her home in the area of a major electric utility easement. The work, which included altering the slope of the land, has resulted in flooding of her property during rainstorms. Ms. Williams, who lives in Paradise Village East, […]
The Florida Bar has a conflict of interest rule which states a lawyer must not represent a client if the representation of one client will be directly adverse to another client. Maybe this rule needs to be applied to campaign consultants. In the recent primaries for the City Commission, the political consulting firm of Vancore-Jones […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that the ‘Special Restrictive Covenant”, associated with the Killearn Country Club, requires the owner of the club to offer to sell the club to the current members if a decision is made to discontinue playing golf on any of the courses. Tallahassee Reports recently published a story about the proposal by […]
Executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, Bob Gabordi, informed readers back on September 16, 2014 that he and the publisher of the Democrat, Julie Moreno, “were charged by Gannett Company executives with being among the first in our company to redesign our news operations to help create the newsroom of the future.” Less than one […]
Following a meeting with the Killearn Homeowners Association on Tuesday night, the owner of the Killearn Country Club met with club members on Wednesday night. The meeting was held to inform the members about the redevelopment plan. Tallahassee Reports previously published a story about the plan. Approximately 150 people attended the meeting and Barton Tuck, […]