Category: Pensacola
Commission looks for plan before approving clean up of Mosquito Control facility plume
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners voted 5-0 to table a supplemental budget amendment for $316,646 to clean up a contaminated groundwater plume that has…
Judge asked to require issuance of demolition permit for John Sunday House
The Liberis Law Firm has filed an emergency motion for preliminary injunction to preempt the City of Pensacola’s Zoning Adjustments Board hearing, scheduled for June…
No application or resume in personnel folder of Chief Human Resources Officer; Inweekly background check reveals…
Through a public record request, Inweekly received the personnel folder of Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson. The folder contained 51 pages – changes of…
No Escambia or Santa Rosa municipality makes list of 50 safest Florida cities
Background checks.org ranked the 50 safest cities in Florida based on FBI violent crime stats and proprietary BackgroundChecks.org research data. Rates are normalized per 100,000…
Disciplinary appeal by former Pensacola fire chief denied
Pensacola Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover appealed the mayor’s decision to terminate his 27-year career with the Pensacola Fire Department. He received notification last Thursday…
Pensacola fire chiefs investigation cost over $65K
The Pensacola City Council requested at its May 26 special meeting the Beggs & Lane invoices for the investigation of Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and…
Chief Human Resources Officer boasts he ‘successfully removed’ city employees, gets $12K raise
In February 2015, when the City of Pensacola HR administrator, Ed Sisson, wanted to have his job title changed to “Chief Human Resources Officer” and get…
Pensacola mayor defends his firing of chiefs in a memo
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward challenged in a memo to the City Council, dated Saturday, May 28, statements made about his investigation and termination of Fire…
Penascola Speaks: UWF SGA president, Studer office building
On “Pensacola Speaks,” I will open the show with Jacob Hebert, UWF student body president, who was recently elected chair of the Florida Students Association….
City Hall changes job description of Pensacola Fire Chief before investigation completed
Inweekly has discovered the job description for the Pensacola Fire Chief was changed on March 14, six weeks before Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van…
Bare says May 26 Special Meeting is still on
Pensacola City Council President Charles Bare says the May 26 Special Council Meeting will take place as planned, despite pressure from Mayor Ashton Hayward and…
City of Pensacola CFO warns Council about special meeting on fire chiefs
Dick Barker, Chief Financial Officer for the City of Pensacola, yesterday sent a memo to City Administrator Eric Olson warning that any public discussion of…