The Committee of Ninety-Nine of Tallahassee/Leon County held its 38th annual Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Banquet the past Thursday evening, March 28, 2019 at the Ballroom of the Holiday Inn East Capital in Tallahassee. The organization was started in 1981 by local Tallahassee business leaders from all areas of business and commerce and […]
The Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council (MPOAC) is a statewide transportation planning and policy organization created by the Florida Legislature pursuant to Section 339.175(11), Florida Statutes. Why this group is important: The MPOAC assists local transportation planning organizations in carrying out the urbanized area transportation planning process by serving as the principal forum for collective policy discussion. […]
After a kick-off meeting by Blueprint officials and another meeting with the Killearn Homeowners Association (KHA), it is clear that the debate over the Northeast Gateway will hinge on the findings of a traffic analysis. Killearn Estates Concerns: Ahead of the kick-off meeting, the KHA Board voted to oppose Phase I of the project which connects […]
Based on data requested by Tallahassee Reports, Godby High School has the highest number of home school students in Leon County with 231. Godby is followed by Leon High School with 220 and Rickards High School with 196. These numbers are based on students that enrolled in the public school system and at a later […]
Information obtained by Tallahassee Reports shows that over 33% of Leon County’s 2,346 students enrolled in home school have failed to comply with home school annual evaluation requirements. Some of the students have been out of compliance for one or more years. An audit just completed by Leon County Schools also found that these students […]
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 […]
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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 […]