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 […]
City staff is recommending that the Tallahassee City Commission award a technology contract to a company that was one of the highest bidders of the five companies that provided proposals. The company, HighStreet IT Solutions, who submitted a price of $2.74 million with their proposal, edged out the second place company, HTC Global Services on […]
About 25 people showed up to a Killearn Homeowners Association (KHA) meeting on Tuesday that featured a visit from Leon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge and officials from the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency. The topic of discussion was the Northeast Gateway. The Northeast Gateway project, which formally began with a kick-off meeting a couple of weeks ago […]
City staff is recommending that city commissioners vote to expand the City’s Water and Sewer Loans program to include a Whole House Plumbing Replacement program available to residential water utility customers. The reason for the program is the impact of the city’s aging water infrastructure. When the system fails -which is happening more frequently – […]
Records requested by Tallahassee Reports shows that citizens using StarMetro declined in 2018. The latest information provided by the City of Tallahassee shows that in 2018, StarMetro ridership declined 3.33% from 3.402 million passenger trips in 2017 to 3.289 million passenger trips in 2018. In 2017 the number of passenger trips declined 10.45% The decrease […]
The City of Tallahassee’s Independent Ethics Board voted to appoint Carlos Rey to fill a seat that is required to be chosen by the six Ethics Board members. Five of the nineteen applicants spoke at the Ethics meeting. After their comments, Board Chairman Richard Herring polled the members and Mr. Rey received five votes. After […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that an applicant for the Board counsel position with the City of Tallahassee’s Independent Ethics Board represented the Board’s Ethics Officer, Julie Meadows-Keefe, in a personal legal matter within the last year. Meadows-Keefe failed to publicly disclose this relationship with John Reid, an applicant for Board counsel, during the Board’s selection […]
The Tallahassee Ethics Board is scheduled to discuss the appointment of Board counsel at the March 19th meeting at city hall. The Board is revisiting the previous appointment of John Reid, which was ruled invalid after it was revealed that an Ethics Board board member was ineligible to vote due to an overlooked residency issue. […]
For those who live in northeast Tallahassee and believe it is too difficult to travel downtown to a city commission meeting to voice concerns about an issue, it appears that city officials are going to make it easier for you – for at least one meeting. City Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox posted on her Facebook that […]
Last week, the Tallahassee City Commission voted 3-2 to move forward with a study to determine the feasibility of building a citywide, fiber optic utility. More specifically, the votes means that city staff will now begin developing an RFP for the study. City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow was supportive of the idea and is interested in […]