Six years after the City Commission voted to end deferred compensation – the practice of augmenting Commissioner salaries with $20,000 – one former City Commissioner continues to receive financial benefits every month due to the program, even though she retired after the program was voted down. This is how. The City of Tallahassee’s Charter says […]
In the end, the All Saints District neighborhood received kind words from City Commissioners about their neighborhood activism, but ultimately it appears the outcome was decided before the vote. The group had gathered more than 1,500 signatures in a grass roots effort to stop a development proposal for a city-owned vacant lot off of Gaines […]
It appears the City of Tallahassee’s lack of attention to public safety over the last nine years has not been limited to funding for more police officers. During a recent City budget workshop, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson took time to tell City Commissioners that the City’s Police Department building, located on Seventh Avenue, is […]
This past Thursday the Tallahassee Board of Realtors (TBR) issued a memorandum to “Broker Members” regarding “the uncertainty around the Killearn Golf and Country Club and the potential effects on the property in the Killearn neighborhood.” The memorandum alerted “Broker Members” that TBR had asked their legal counsel to craft disclosure language in anticipation of […]
On Wednesday the City Commission voted to allow the owner of the Killearn Country Club to demolish the Inn, but not before some concessions and a warning from one City Commissioner. The concessions came out of a meeting with the developer, the City and the representatives of the Killearn Homeowners Association. The item had been […]
The City and County Commissions are set to raise the fire service fee by as much as 15% for residential service. Also, some apartment dwellers will be paying more than four times their current rate under the proposed changes. On the business side, some commercial customers will pay 55% more than their current rate. The […]
The Edison Restaurant, formerly known as the Brew Pub, in Cascades Park is due to open in late summer. Tallahassee Reports has learned that the individual the City of Tallahassee chose to partner with, Adam Corey, is now in trouble with the state of Florida over an audit of a restaurant he currently owns, 101, which […]
The Leadership Council on Gun Violence provided the City Commission with detailed information about the victims and suspects of gun violence and the location of the incidents at the December 10th meeting. City of Tallahassee Police Chief Michael Deleo made the presentation. The Council was created over the summer to develop action steps to help […]
A public records request by Tallahassee Reports has resulted in documents that indicates that a high level city official provided the City Commission with incorrect information about the bid process used to select the vendor to pave roads in the Capital city. At the November 12th, 2014 City Commission meeting, the City Commissioners were discussing […]
One of the provisions of the ethics amendment, passed by two-thirds of City voters during the recent elections, limited campaign contributions to city candidates to $250 per person or business entity. Before the passage of the charter amendment, the limit was $1,000. The language in the charter amendment appears to put the effective date of […]