The Citizen’s for Responsible Spending, a group created by Barney Bishop to monitor local spending in the City of Tallahassee, has created a task force to propose a model of best practices to ensure a smooth and rapid, coordinated response to emergencies like those created by Hurricane Hermine. The task force will be chaired by […]
Dr. Erwin Jackson, a businessman and local government activist, has filed a complaint with the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County seeking a judgement that the recent election of Scott Maddox to the City Commission is invalid. The complaint was filed today at 3:18 P.M. The filing claims Maddox is ineligible for the City […]
The agenda item scheduled to be presented to the Tallahassee City Commission on Wednesday reads “Adoption of the revised method for the CPI increases effective October 1, 2016 will result in a 0.9% increase in electric base rates, natural gas base rates, and water and sewer rates.” However, the Tallahassee Democrat published a headline on […]
Layne Smith ended up winning the race for Leon County Judge Seat 2, but not before the Leon County Democratic Executive Committee, lead by Allison Tant (pictured above), did their best to politicize a non-partisan judge race. Judicial candidates are bound to campaign rules prepared by the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee and published by the Office […]
At the City Commission meeting this Wednesday, Mayor Andrew Gillum’s office is recommending the highest bidder receive the general state lobbying contract and the city electric utility lobbying contract. Last year the Mayor’s office recommended, and the City Commission approved, a one year extension for the lobbyist contracts that were awarded in 2012. During the […]
As a former consumer advocate who has testified before the Florida Public Service Commission in storm recovery cases involving private utilities, it is my view the post storm focus should be on the command structure of the City’s electric utility and not Mayor Andrew Gillum. Sure, Gillum could have done a better job communicating with […]
As most people know, media drives discussions by deciding what to print, and also, what not to print. Here in Tallahassee, TR is working diligently to continue to provide coverage of local government issues that the Tallahassee Democrat refuses to address. For example, TR broke a story on Sunday about the Consolidated Dispatch Agency (CDA) […]
Sources informed TR that Dee Crumpler, the Director of the Consolidated Dispatcher Agency (CDA), left Tallahassee Saturday morning for a family vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, two days after hurricane Hermine moved through Leon County. When contacted by TR, Crumpler confirmed the information and said the vacation had been planned for months and the CDA […]
Outage Update Based on data from utility provider websites as of 10:30 am today, Leon County has approximately 30,000 customers without power. The report shows 24,900 without power in the City of Tallahassee service area and approximately 5,300 in the Talquin service area. The City of Tallahassee recently projected that power will be restored to […]
Update Governor Scott issues press release stating Mayor Gillum has accepted offer of help. See release here. Original Story Governor Rick Scott has directed more resources to Leon County even though local officials say their help is not needed. Noting that more than 33,000 homes and businesses are still without power in the City of […]