Independent NewsPosts Tagged ‘Pensacola’
Studying the Disparity Study
The Pensacola City Council recently requested an update on the implementation of recommendations stemming from last year’s city disparity study. This morning, City Administrator Bill Reynolds informed council members that city staff would be diving into the matter with MGT of America—the [...]
Hayward’s District 7 Town Hall
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will host a town hall in District 7 next week. Here is the city press release: Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will continue his popular series of “Taking City Hall to the Citizens” town hall meetings with a meeting in District 7 on Monday, April 15. The meeting [...]
City Taps Two Local Marketing Firms
Since severing ties with the Zimmerman Agency, the city of Pensacola has hired two local firms to handle aspects of its marketing needs. “Due to the regular and intensive marketing and advertising needs of our enterprises, staff moved quickly to fill those needs on a short-term basis,” [...]
Quick Hix Nix
It was a light, quick affair. It was the end of the Hixardt deal. For now, anyways. “We want Pensacola to stay our home,” Mike Hicks, CEO of Hixardt Technologies, Inc., assured the Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency board. “We want Pensacola to be our headquarters.” Since 2011, [...]
CRA Considers Hixardt
A few hours before the Blue Wahoos season opener at the Community Maritime Park, the Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency Board will meet across the street at city hall. There is only one issue listed on the CRA’s meeting agenda: an amendment to the economic development agreement with [...]
Blue Wahoos attorney responds to Kerrigan epistle
Scott Remington, attorney for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, has responded to attorney Bob Kerrigan's letter attacking the team and its owners over their agreements with the Community Maritime Park. Kerrigan is an advisor of Mayor Ashton Hayward, donating $2000 through a series of corporations run out [...]
City on Board with ECAT Funding
The Pensacola City Council unanimously approved a mass transit interlocal between the city and Escambia County during Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. The interlocal provides that Escambia can have the city’s portion of a 4-cent gas tax—estimated in the $700,000 neighborhood—that [...]
YMCA Statement
Statement from YMCA President Steve Williams on Negotiations for Maritime Y: "For the past month, the Y has tried to navigate the process of negotiating a sublease for a parcel on the Community Maritime Park. Based on two city council meetings, one CMPA Audit and Operations meeting, two CMPA [...]
Reynolds: ‘I Am Unaware of Any Issues’
County officials expressed concern this morning that there were problems with current deals involving the city of Pensacola. Specifically, commissioners and county staff raised issues about negotiations with City Administrator Bill Reynolds over operations and funding of the Escambia County Area [...]
County-City Friction
After Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry raised concerns during this morning's agenda review session about ongoing dialogue with the city of Pensacola—over ECAT and, more specifically, library operations—Interim County Administrator George Touart laid out the landscape for the [...]
The YMCA, the CMPA and the ‘Big Mistake’
After hours of debate yesterday, the Community Maritime Park Associates board decided to redirect a proposed YMCA away from a waterfront space at the park. “I think we have made a big mistake doing what we did here,” CMPA Chairman Collier Merrill said. Proponents of a new downtown Y had [...]
Idle No More
Idle No More—an indigenous-rights and environmental group based in Canada—will be holding events locally this week. The group is holding three separate events, each with its own focus. The organization was formed last year by members of the First Nations—Metis and Inuit people of [...]