Board of County Commissioners Public Hearings Preliminary Budget Workshop Fiscal Year 2008/2009 Countywide Budget 19 March 2008 Call to order at 8:35 a.m. Grover Robinson started discussion by suggesting cutting the commissioners’…
Tag: 2007-08 county budget
County code enforcement
The 2007-08 budget for code enforcement is $2,454,000. It’s funded by fines and fees ($1,654,000), General Fund ($300,000) and Solid Waste ($500,000). Two years ago the budget was $1,296,349. Hmmmmm – budget…
Moby misses the mark
PNJ columnist Mark “Moby” O’Brien in his column today (Fire fee fallout: Property tax cut would hurt waterfront plans) misses the mark. I’m not sure why O’Brien has taken the position that…
Vote No on Amendment 1
We should not have a constitutional amendment that restricts the funding of counties and cities. I am upset as nearly everyone is about the huge budgets of local governments. However, we can…
McCain momentum
The NY Times reports that John McCain has picked up the endorsements of three major newspapers: The Des Moines Register, The Manchester Union Leader and The Boston Globe. Will it be enough…
County commission studies justice system
At last, the Escambia County commissioners recognize that there just may be a problem with the local criminal justice system. Usually I hate studies (this one will cost $140K), but I have…
Does budget process matter?
The SRIA asking for $10 million from the Escambia County Commission begs an even larger question. Why wasn’t the beach parking in the 2007-08 budget for the county or SRIA? We are…
Word of the week: Trust
With big Escambia County commission meeting on Thursday, the word of the week will be “trust.” How do the commissioners rebuild public trust in county government after the revelations that its county…
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 week we have animal control proposing higher…
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 how unfair it is for Pensacola residents…
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 the general fund ECSO gets $79,700,000 plus…
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 112 police officers with salaries ranging from…