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 […]
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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 […]
Tallahassee Reports has confirmed that Mark Earley, the Leon County Supervisor of Elections, has removed Marcus Gillum, Andrew Gillum’s brother, from the Leon County voter rolls. The action by Earley comes after an investigative report by Tallahassee Reports which verified that Marcus Gillum voted as resident of Leon County – registered at a home once […]
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 […]
A Leon County report states that the Supervised Pretrial Release Program (SPRP) has saved $13,539,062 in jail costs by diverting defendants into the program during 2018. The Leon County’s SPRP is an alternative to monetary bail for defendants who are likely to appear in court and unlikely to present a danger to the community if […]