Rick Minor, the Chief Executive Officer of the Big Bend’s nonprofit food bank, announced Thursday that he will run for Seat 3 on the Tallahassee City Commission. The seat is currently occupied by Commissioner Nancy Miller. However, Miller recently announced she would not seek re-election. Two others have filed so far to become candidates for […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that the vendor used by the City of Tallahassee to process utility payments has discovered evidence of unauthorized access to their network. The breach was discovered on November 10th. In letters sent by TIO Networks to City utility customers, the company said the breach reached locations in the network that housed […]
Days after Tallahassee Reports published a story noting that the vendor for the City of Tallahassee’s solar farm was a foreign company, questions from the Utility Citizen Advisory Committee (UCAC) prompted Reese Goad to address the procurement process for the project. Reese Goad is currently the Acting City Manager for the City of Tallahassee. The procurement […]
The Tallahassee Democrat has published an opinion piece by Acting City of Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad that contradicts facts in the public record about the foreign ownership of the City of Tallahassee’s soon to be completed solar farm. Goad states in the opinion piece that Origis – the developer and owner of the solar […]
Imagine you are an employee in a large organization and you have a workplace complaint against the CEO. You follow procedures and take your complaint to the head of Human Resources. Your concerns are ignored. Later you find out that the CEO has arranged for the head of Human Resources to receive expensive gifts – […]
On December 1st, 2017 it was reported that City Commissioner Nancy Miller, due to family considerations, would not seek re-election. Since then Tallahassee Reports has received information that sheds more light on Miller’s unexpected decision. Documents recovered by Tallahassee Reports show that City Commissioner Nancy Miller announced she would not seek re-election to the city […]
Citizens for Responsible Spending (CRS), a group of Tallahassee business people who formed in 2015 to address the lack of a transparent budget process, held a press conference today and called for the “immediate dismissal of Rick Fernandez as City Manager.” The City Commission recently voted to keep Mr. Fernandez on administrative paid leave and […]
The City of Tallahassee’s new solar project may be good for the environment, but evidence indicates it will not be good for the local economy. A spokesman for the City of Tallahassee told Tallahassee Reports that the city’s new solar project will not create any local recurring jobs. A spokesman for Origis Energy, the Belgium […]
The agenda for the next city commission meeting on December 6th contains Item 11.01 which is titled “City Manager Administrative Leave.” The agenda item states: On November 8, the City Commission voted to approve paid administrative leave for the City Manager until such time as the Florida Commission on Ethics resolves the matter of a […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that the City of Tallahassee’s solar project is being financed and constructed by a private Belgium company that is registered in Cyprus, an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean. This means that payments made by city residents, who have chosen to buy electricity from the solar project, will be leaving Tallahassee to […]