Tag: 2007-08 county budget
Higher fees coming
As Escambia County deals with lower property tax revenues, you can expect the county commissioners to raise fees and charges for services whenever possible. This…
Germ of an idea
After I realized that the Escambia Sheriff’s total budget was nearly $30 million more than the entire City of Pensacola budget, it became very apparent…
What is the ECSO budget
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office proposed budget for 2007-08 can not be found anywhere online. From the Escambia County website we can learn that from…
ECSO top heavy
Escambia County Sheriff’s Office appears to be top heavy when you compare it to the operations at the Pensacola Police Department. City of Pensacola has…
Sherriff produces annual report
Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby has produced a high-gloss annual report that’s 52 pages. It looks like a high school yearbook with pictures of his…
Nothing gets done
The county salary database has now been used over 22,000 times. As much as the county leaders want to complain about how unfair it was…
Record Day for Inweekly.net
Our website – inweekly.net – had the most visitors in single day, 9322, on Thursday. This shatters our previous record by nearly 2000! We received…
County Budgets are online
Escambia County has its proposed budget up on the web – Proposed Budget for FY 2007/2008 – $415,581,059. Santa Rosa County’s link is 2007-2008 Tentative…
Charter Government looks better now
Escambia County has repeatedly rejected charter government which has led to individual feafdoms in county government. The county commission and the citizens have no say…
County may cut library funding
As the community tries to improve literacy and low FCAT scores, Escambia County is contemplating cutting its library funding 25% – about $800K to $900K….
SR Sheriff may cut 50 jobs
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendall Hall has told WEAR TV 3 that he needs an extra $3 million. If he doesn’t get it, he’ll have to…
Biggest Pensacola Wins
Where did the greater Pensacola area have its biggest wins last week? The Santa Rosa Island Authority finally looking at plans for a public parking…
General Fund budget cuts
Here is one of the handouts given to the Escambia County Commissioners at the budget workshop yesterday. Note the commissioners wanted to return Escambia Community…
News coverage of budget workshop weak
Escambia County Commission held its first budget workshop yesterday. WEAR TV focused on the cuts on funds given to non-profits like the Florida Wildlife Sanctuary,…
Budget tricks may work
The county commissioners are working to stop in any cut in the Escambia Community Clinics. However, they should be working to increase what is spent….
What’s happening with other officers
Ernie Lee Magaha, Clerk of Courts, $4,676,281 (up 1.67%) but needs $2,111,446 from County general fund (up 15.9%) because his revenues are projected to be…
Sheriff asks for $10 million increase
At the Escambia County commissioners budget workshop today, Sheriff Ron McNesby submitted $85,870,017 budget for next year. His current budget is $75,858,215. Sheriff’s Office $52,962,824Â …
