Category: Escambia County
Another view of Monday’s meeting
We asked one of our college interns/free lancers to attend the Monday meeting on consolidation to offer up what she saw and heard. Some of…
More troubles for GOP house speakers
The St. Pete Times is reporting the 2014 Florida House speaker designate, Chris Dorworth of Lake Mary, has severe financial troubles. His house is in…
PNJ continues to push for vote
It’s now a front page issue for the daily newspaper. They want the legislative delegation to reconvene and vote for the Consolidation plan. They offer…
Video to rally support for plan
There is a video on YouTube asking voters to pressure the local state legislators to place the Consolidation Plan on the ballot next fall. It’s…
What should be mayor’s salary?
The Pensacola City Council will vote on Thursday to set the mayor’s salary at $100,000. What do the county constitutional officers make? Clerk of Courts,…
ECSO retiree charged with larceny
by Sean Boone A 32-year veteran of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has been accused of stealing more than $100,000 in department funds. Catherine Lister,…
Evers shares wisdom. No really, that’s what it says
Press Release by Natalie Custodio: Tallahassee- Representative Greg Evers took a breather this morning from committee meetings to offer his own experience and wisdom to…
School has other buyers for Brownsville
From the PNJ article on the canceled sale of Brownsville Middle School: “Norm Ross, deputy superintendent, said the School District has received some other inquiries…
Brownsville Middle School deal is off
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church has withdrawn its offer for Brownsville Middle School after Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas refused to extend the due diligence period…
Consolidation fails to get council approval
The Pensacola City Council vote, 5-4, against telling the state legislative delegation that they support placing the proposed consolidation plan on the ballot next November….
Page has phone records
Jamie Page has a solid investigative piece in Sunday’s daily paper. Through public records requests, Page got the cell phone records and message logs from…
County Purchasing Procedures
Test To be sure that I was being fair to Comm. Valentino, I spent time yesterday with Escambia County Purchasing Chief Claudia Simmons to understand…
UWF will have its offer before CMPA
The University of West Florida offer appears to be very similar to one being discussed by the master developer and university during the holidays. The…
Videos on Maplewood bid
Here are the comments from the different commissioners on the motion to reverse the re-bid of the Maplewood drainage project: KEVIN WHITE: GROVER ROBINSON: GENE…
There was no error by Roads
Through a public records request, I have the bids made by Gulf Equipment and Roads Inc on the Maplewood drainage project. As you would expect,…
County Purchasing Rules are clear
Escambia County has a set of general terms and conditions for all its sealed bids (Read). The Maplewood drainage project request for bids clearly states…
Roads Inc awarded $1.94 million last half ’09
Roads, Inc has done very well with Escambia County since June 2009 7/23 Awarded Molino Road Resurfacing $858,713.50 and Saufley Field Road Resurfacing $433,836 8/15…
Valentino backtracks…too little, too late?
Escambia Commissioner Gene Valentino has a problem. He can’t get his stories straight, according to the PNJ. We know that he met with Cody Rawson…
Roads wanted to protest its own bid, no really
Here is the video of Russell Weaver of Roads Inc. The heart of his argument is that Roads Inc’s protest of its own bid “broke…
Did Valentino solicit campaign contributions from his office?
The Florida Statutes state it is illegal for an elected official to solicit campaign contributions from his government office. PNJ reporter Jamie Page reports on…
