At the next Leon County School Board meeting on October 11, elected officials will be asked to approve a public hearing related to a policy that addresses the non-instructional activities of administrative staff members. The proposed policy is provided below. The new policy – entitled Freedom of Speech in Non-Instructional Settings – attempts to ” […]
Today the Leon County Commission will hear an overview of local ordinances in Florida that require rent increase notification to certain residential tenants and allow tenants to be released from their residential leases, without penalty, when rent is increased by more than an identified threshold amount. At a meeting on June 14, 2022, the Leon […]
On October 12, the Tallahassee City Commission will hold a workshop to address spending priorities related to the Tallahassee gun violence problem. Back on March 9, 2022, the city commission voted to set aside $1 million each year for five years to address gun violence. During the workshop, one of the items calls for elected […]
On October 11, the Leon County Commission will consider an item on their agenda designed to “conditionally approve” the Cawthon Multi-Family Residential development and its “development plan application.” The location of the new development is on Bannerman Road southeast of Glenoak Trail. The development will be adjacent to a commercial project, which will consist of […]
Below are the news briefs from the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency Board of Directors Meeting that took place on September 29, 2022. __ Towards the beginning of the meeting, during the “Citizens to be Heard” segment, one public speaker called upon the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency to consider entering into professional archival research into the historic African […]
Below are the news briefs from the Leon County School Board meeting that took place on September 27, 2022. __ The school board a report from Chief Jimmy Williams from LCS (Leon County Schools) Safety and Security. Williams reported to the school board an executive summary of the improvements made to schools across the district […]
Progressive Leader Calls Police Chief and Police Officers Murderers At last Wednesday’s city commission meeting – during the time allocated for public speakers – Delilah Pierre took the opportunity to address elected officials with a 3-mintue commentary which contained objectional language and comments referring to Police Chief Lawrence Revell and TPD officers as murderers. Pierre […]
Below are the news briefs from the Tallahassee City Commission meeting that took place on September 21, 2022. –The City Commission approved several consent items related to improvements at the Tallahassee International Airport. Other consent items included maintenance agreements for murals on the Bronough-Duval Overpass located over the Lake Anita Plaza and approving a resolution […]
By The News Service of Florida Since 2019, when Florida lawmakers created a voucher program called the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, the “flow of public funds to private education” has dramatically increased, according to a new report by the nonprofit Florida Policy Institute and the Education Law Center. The report details an increase in money […]
Tallahassee City Commissioners are slated to address the issue of gun violence at their September 21 city commission meeting. The discussion will center around how to spend $1 million each year over the next five years to mitigate the troubling gun violence trends that have emerged since 2018. The chart below – created with information […]