Category: Pensacola
City attorney explains gas tax appeal
From: Lysia Bowling Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 3:48 PM To: P.C. Wu; Sherri Myers; Andy Terhaar; Larry B. Johnson; Gerald Wingate; Brian Spencer; Jewel…
Viewpoint: Mayor put paving his street ahead of others
by Mark Taylor Mayor Hayward Has Shown Poor Judgement In Dealing With City of Pensacola Streets. This recent controversy over the 6-cent gas tax allocation…
City slow to post monthly financial reports
When he was first elected in 2010, Mayor Ashton Hayward committed to “Produce monthly, line-item financial statements that will be posted online for the public…
What does the City gas tax appeal say
In the cover letter to the Administration Commission, which includes Gov. Rick Scott and the other members of the Florida Cabinet-Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO…
Mayor Ashton Hayward has already borrowed $15 million for paving program
According to City of Pensacola Public Information Officer Vernon Stewart, the City of Pensacola has already borrowed $15-million to compete 10-years’ worth of paving in…
Buzz: Hayward appeals gas tax issue to Gov. Rick Scott
A day after Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May sent his few additions to the city’s ambitious three-year street paving program, Mayor Ashton Hayward notified the…
FRS faces massive wave of DROP enrollees
By LLOYD DUNKELBERGER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Despite a topsy-turvy year in the world financial markets, Florida’s $142 billion pension fund managed to show…
City of Pensacola has new ‘Sunshine Center’ coordinator
Inweekly has been told that Maxwell Branham is no longer the Public Records Coordinator of the City of Pensacola. Branham was hired in June 2015…
City refuses to release pension information
Inweekly requested last week information on the City of Pensacola employees who have retired and later rehired – process known as “double-dipping.” The employee enters…
Are we ready for medical pot dispensaries
Has the mayor’s office done anything to prepare for the state’s new marijuana industry? Last week, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners took the first…
Hayward goes from concrete goals to vague, feel-good statements
One of the biggest selling points of the strong-mayor charter was the candidates for mayor would have platforms that laid out the goals for their…
County voters more diverse, City of Pensacola more white since 2006
Escambia County has picked up 14,990 registered voters since June 30, 2006. The majority of those voters, 6,868, are African-American. Minority voters – listed as…
Details of Fricker Center armed robbery released, semi-automatic rifle used
Former Mississippi high school football star has been arrested for armed robbery outside of City of Pensacola community center. Last year, Jaquelle Green of D’Iberville…
Facts belie explanation of fire department overtime
In a television interview on July 19, Pensacola Fire Chief David Allen defended his sharp increase in overtime as being cyclical. “It tends to happen,…
Wall South No Go for Pokemon Go
The City of Pensacola asks Pokemon Go players to not hunt Pokemon at Veterans Memorial Park: City of Pensacola is asking players of the viral…
Escambia County Commissioners reject counter proposal on gas tax
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners did not approve the revised interlocal agreement on the local option gas tax that the Pensacola City Council approved…
City personnel costs have risen to FY 2012 levels
The difference in how Mayor Ashton Hayward has managed his personnel costs between his first and second terms is stark. In his first full budget…
Pensacola Police Department handles overtime within budget
Yesterday, I reported on how Pensacola Fire Chief David Allen has allowed overtime in his department to far exceed the department’s original budget. A review of…
Spencer ‘underwhelmed’ by bridge design
Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer said on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks†that he was not impressed by the design renderings for the new…
Scarborough led the last revolt against Pensacola City Hall
In the 1990’s, the City of Pensacola wanted to increase taxes. Joe Scarborough, only three years out of law school, helped collect 3,000 signatures to…
