Category: Pensacola
Occupy Pensacola to March to City Hall
OP Press Release – Oct. 26: Occupy Pensacola’s march from Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Plaza to City Hall on Friday, Oct 28 at 5…
Victor Steen case settled
Mayor Ashton Hayward has sent the following memo to the Pensacola City Council: The City’s Police Liability Insurance Company has settled the claim of Cassandra…
What’s the Council’s take on executive’s cold feet?
IN reporter Jeremy Morrison interviewed the Pensacola City Council to get their reaction to news that their choice for the newly created city council executive…
Buzz: Council Exec pick drops out
Scotty Davis, Pensacola City Council’s pick for its council executive after a five-month search, has withdrawn from the position. Here is the email from City…
Mayor’s Office – Weekly Update 9.20.11
Press Release: Port of Pensacola secures grant funding, attendance up at pre-school programs, and City launches Facebook and Twitter –The Port of Pensacola has been…
Hayward proposes a reduction in Sanitation surcharge
Mayor Ashton Hayward is recommending to the Pensacola City Council a reduction in the sanitation fuel surcharge from $2.10/mo. to $1.50/mo. beginning Oct. 1. The…
Florida city votes to drop its pensions
The City of Pensacola pays nearly $13 million annually for its general, fire and police pensions. Imagine what the City could do with that money….
Council picks its executive
The Pensacola City Council ended its nearly year long search of its council administrative assistant executive. Last night, the council selected Scotty Davis, community services…
Buzz: Council passed budget
The word I got late last night was the Pensacola City Council passed yesterday Mayor Ashton Hayward’s budget without amendments. There still is one more…
ESP rate could unravel budget
The proposed rate increases for Energy Services of Pensacola appear to be the biggest trouble spot for Mayor Ashton Hayward in getting his budget passed….
Five hour-plus council meeting fails to make daily
I really don’t know exactly when the Pensacola City Council meeting stopped meeting. At 8 pm the group was still discussing. The daily newspaper had…
Archeological artifacts uncovered after BP spill
Public Radio International reported yesterday that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, archaeologists are finding artifacts that shed new light on the Native American tribes…
Pensacola City Council to vote on council exec
The Pensacola City Council meets today as its Committee of the Whole. An hour has been allotted on the agenda for the Council Executive position….
Firefighters’ Union supports Hayward budget
Press Release: The Pensacola Professional Firefighters support Mayor Hayward and his budget as presented to the Pensacola City Council. Both the Mayor and his union…
Spencer: ‘Let my council go’
Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer has earned a nickname around town after his exodus from Thursday’s budget workshop: “Moses” for trying to lead the city…
Is Pensacola Fire Department top heavy?
Council President Maren Deweese wants to bring back the fire rescue units. If her facts hold up, she has a compelling case. If the rest…
What I missed of the City Council workshop
PNJ’s Jamie Page had to sit through the entire Pensacola City Council workshop. In reading his article, “Council members leave budget meeting over bickering,” my…
Another abandoned school eyesore
This is the one that you have seen for decades from I-110 Southbound. The building was once a school (J. Lee Pickens School), then the…
CMPA Board approves audit of ‘soft’ costs
Kudos to Councilman Larry Johnson for pressing for a special audit into the Maritime Park expenditures. The citizens have a right to understand how nearly…
Mayor Hayward responds to City Council
Mayor Ashton Hayward responded Tuesday afternoon to all the information requests from the City Council members. Not surprisingly, he rejected Council member Sherri Myers’ budget…
