The City Auditor has found that over the last ten years the City of Tallahassee has paid a 9.1% broker fee equal to $3.24 million, while other cities, using a more competitive approach to secure insurance coverage has paid 5.1% in broker fees. The audit report indicates that over this period the City of Tallahassee […]
The City Commission will vote on Wednesday whether or not to award two contracts totaling over $1,000,000 to out of town contractors to pave roads with techniques that City staff says is not available from local contractors. One contract to be awarded is to Cutler Paving, which is located in Kansas, in the amount of […]
On March 12, 2014, the City Commission will address the Ethics Advisory Panel recommendations that were not adopted at the Target Issue Workshop held on November 20, 2013. The City Commission appointed a citizen Ethics Advisory Panel (EAP) that first convened on November 8, 2012. The EAP was charged with examining the various City policies, […]
The City of Tallahassee public records department has informed Tallahassee Reports that since January 1, 2011 the City of Tallahassee has not paid outside vendors for the production of any Pubic Service Announcement (PSA) TV commercials except for the TAPP program. The City’s statement came in response to a public records request by Tallahassee Reports. […]
On Thursday, February 27, 2014, the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) voted 6-1 to approve a property tax rebate in the amount of approximately $1.6 million to an out of town developer. The rebate will go to CA Student Living, a developer from Chicago, Illinois that is proposing to develop 444 College Avenue, a mixed-use […]
Rarely does a government entity decide to become smaller so that it can become more effective. But that is exactly what Innovation Park did. Innovation Park is the areas university-based research park that is overseen by the Leon County Research and Development Authority (the Authority).Among the partnerships highly valued by the Authority are those with […]
Tallahassee Reports recently reported on a City Commission vote that resulted in a New Jersey based company, APS, being awarded a sole source contract to do paving work on two City roads. As of February 23rd, one road has been paved and the other road, Maclay Blvd., has been delayed due to testing that revealed […]
Kim Rivers is not happy. Ms. Rivers, a successful local business woman and the engine behind Imagine Tallahassee, believes the Leon County Board of County Commissioners have voted to ignore the work of Imagine Tallahassee. And she is not shy. After the vote last week , she fired off an email stating her version of […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that City Manager Anita Favors selected the highest bid to produce a Public Service Announcement (PSA) commercial for the Think About Personal Pollution (TAPP) program in 2012. A request for proposal (RFP) was sent to a number of interested parties. Only two responses were received by the City of Tallahassee. The […]
Decisions made by elected officials on the City Commission and the Leon County Board of County Commissioners ensure that the approximately $4 million raised by the fuel tax increase approved in 2013 will not be spent on additional road maintenance. This, despite the fact that one of the main arguments used to push for an […]