Commissioner Lumon May this afternoon toured the Rosa L. Parks Transit Complex to see firsthand the work conditions at the facility. Inweekly accompanied the commissioner on the visit. Yesterday, the bus drivers’…
Category: Escambia County
Former HR director points finger at county budget department
The never-ending HR saga about the 401(a) plan has another twist. Maybe this more of a M. Night Shyamalan script than the Coen Brothers. After eight years of signing checks for the…
Anonymity may require paper bags
County Administrator Janice Gilley has made a big deal about protecting the identity of persons who make public record requests if want to be anonymous. Last week, Inweekly made a public record…
Recap of County Pension Debacle (read for updates)
Let’s review the latest developments of what could be the plot of the next Walker Holmes novel or the script of a Coen Brothers movie. Since 1997, Escambia County has offered its…
Bus Union votes for removal of Administrator Gilley
The member of ATU Local 1395 overwhelmingly gave Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley a vote of non-confidence and has asked for her removal. Gilley’s employment contract is up for discussion at the…
Childers finds retirement contribution excessive
Clerk of Courts and Comptroller Pam Childers has reviewed the much publicized 401(a) annuity program offered to the county’s senior management staff and determined the county has been using an incorrect formula…
Mayor stumped why county not collaborating on homeless
By Jeremy Morrison City officials have been working with local non-profit organizations to address the issues surrounding homelessness, Â issues like services and food and shelter. While the city has allowed a homeless…
Escambia County has trouble filling positions
CareerSource EscaRosa is hosting a hiring event for Escambia County jobs on Thursday, June 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 6913 N. 9th Ave., Pensacola, FL 32504. This hiring event…
Gilley makes up public records problem, continues to push myth
Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley continues to promulgate the belief that it’s a violation of Florida’s public record laws to release the IP address of a person making an anonymous record request….
Inhumane treatment of sick, older employees inside county HR
No life appears to be more disposable to the county’s HR than an older Black woman who worked 25 years for the transit system, been hospitalized twice because of COVID, and now…
Dismal picture painted of ECAT work conditions
ATU Local 1395 president Mike Lowery painted a dismal picture of the work conditions inside Escambia County’s transit system and blamed the county administrator and HR for the conditions. During the BCC…
Remember Live Work Learn Play?
Five years ago this week, Richard Martz of the Montreal-based Live Work Learn Play revealed the concepts on how Baptist hospital would redevelop the 25 blocks it owned in the West Moreno…