On Monday, the City of Pensacola Finance Committee approved the City Manager’s recommended 2008 millage of 4.598 mills, down from 4.95. This will be voted on by the full body on Thursday…
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Panama City makes tax cut
On Tuesday Panama City voted to drop its property tax rates from 4.1722 mills to 3.761 for fiscal year 2007-08, which begins Oct. 1. Panama City has a $66 million annual budget….
Strong Mayor idea delayed til Aug. 20
John Peacock and his group have been put off by the Pensacola City Council until the August 20th Committee of the Whole meeting before they will be allowed to present their ideas…
Pensacola #4 in population loss
The Orlando Sentinel has a special report on population shifts according to the latest U.S. Census estimates. Pensacola ranks #4 for cities with the most population loss from 2005 to 2006. 1…
Pensacola: Next Savannah?
The New York Times has a travel article on Savannah, GA (36 Hours in Savannah, Ga. ). Savannah has many of the same challenges that Pensacola has. Yet they have dealt with…
People leave Pensacola in droves
—couldn’t resist the headline PENSACOLA, Fla., June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Pensacola Regional Airport (PNS) is pleased to announce that in May of 2007, an all-time record number of passengers utilized the Airport,…
Pensacola surrenders
For the 57th time, Pensacola surrendered to Don Tristan Deluna. For one week, we have a strong mayor. Let’s see if we can get the main branch of the library replaced; Port…
Can Pensacola Be Complaint Free?
Rev. Jamie Sanders of Unity of Pensacola is asking the impossible – for Pensacola to go 21 days without complaining. Can you imagine it? The PNJ’s comment section and forum would go…
City/county employees stats
Creative Loafing recently did a story about number of employees per 100,000 people in several Southern cities. It got me wondering how does Pensacola stack up – but since Pensacola only has…
MOBy advises high school grads
PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien has advice for area high grads…which I find a little funny since I doubt more than a handful high school students read his column…but maybe their grandparents will…
Better Osceola idea
Mark O’brien makes a strong argument against the Osceola Golf Course – General Fund has paid $260K over last three years to operate it. For Jan-Mar rounds played are down – which…
Pensacola Airport Expansion
Friday, Frank Miller, Pensacola Regional Airport Director, made a presentation to the chamber’s Committee of 100 on the $104,983,000 expansion of the area. It will have expanded check-in and security areas to…
City sanitation question
In today’s issue of the daily, Mayor John Fogg says “the rising cost of fuel, which the city did not plan for, was a big reason for the increase”. How could the…
Pay question
The average pay for a department head or director in both Escambia County and the City of Pensacola is over $90,000. Question: How many department head and company managers in the local…
Buzz: City Sanitation
Heard through the grapevine yesterday that the rate increase for City of Pensacola’s sanitation department and the fuel surcharge are only stop gap measures. There may be even more increases later in…
A bunch of garbage
The Pensacola City Council will vote on Thursday to raise its garbage pick-up fees. The monthly rate will increase $2.35 from $19.85 to $22.20 and a $1.30 fuel surcharge will be added…
City Department Head salaries – ranked
Thanks to a public records request by the daily: City Mgr Tom Bonfield+bonus $156,800 City Atty John Fleming $125,435 Asst. City Mgr Robert Payne $120,161 Asst. City Mgr Alvin Coby $119,496 Asst….
Take Pride in Pensacola
 Press Release A Beautiful Community Begins with Me! Just over a year ago when Take Pride in Pensacola was started by the LeaP class of 2006 our community was in terrible…
Possible money solution for City
Dear Intended Associate, A Very Goodday To You! I am Dr.David Bryan Ellis, British National,the Chairman / CEO of DBE International Consortium based in Marbella, Spain and I am in search of…
City press release on shortfall
The Communication Services Tax is a tax on services such as any voice, data, audio, video or other information or signals, including cable services transmitted by any medium. The communication vendor remits…