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Hayward wants to spend another $21M of LOST before he leaves

Mayor Ashton Hayward is proposing $21,244,400 of Local Option Sales Tax spendingÂ for FY 2019. Council Chambers Renovations Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 375,000 Fire Equipment, Vehicles (3) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â …

Hayward proposes largest budget in city history

Mayor Ashton Hayward has posted on the city’s website his proposed operating budget for FY 2019. It is the largest budget in the city’s history,…

City Interactive Financial Transparency Platform never updated

In February 2017, the City of Pensacola launchedÂ theÂ Interactive Financial Transparency Platform module of its OpenGov software. It would revolutionize how taxpayers could track city revenue…

Woodland Heights Center: Commitments not fufilled

By Sammi Sontag Inweekly… The Woodland Heights Resource Center is tucked away off Fairfield Drive near Pensacola Village. The center was built in 2013 to…

Mayor Hayward announces tentative agreements with Fraternal Order of Police, gives no details

This afternoon, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward announced he had reached tentative agreements with the Police Officer, Sergeant, and Lieutenant bargaining units represented by the Fraternal…

Buzz: Hayward offers Pensacola Police Union at 10-percent raise

We have been told the city of Pensacola announced today at Pensacola City Hall that Mayor Ashton Hayward has negotiated a 10-percent raise for the…

Ballsy Plan for Mayor Hayward

On Monday, City CFO Dick Barker told the Pensacola City Council that the city has the funds to pay for the construction of a $10-million…

The $737K default letter

The mayor is asking the Pensacola City Council to approve the sale of the Pitts Slip Marina and a ground lease for city-owned land on…

Mayor wants to settle Pitts Slip legal fees with land swap

On the council’s agenda for next week is a proposal by Mayor Ashton Hayward to settle the legal fees the city owes Seville Harbor in…

Hayward will spend a third of LOST funds before November election

The collections of the Series IV Local Sales Tax Fund began on Jan. 1, 2018.Â The total anticipated collections through Dec. 31, 2028 are…

Mayor Hayward dodges question regarding recycling

The Pensacola News Journal tried to get Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward to say if he believes the city should have notified the public that it…

Council should hit ‘pause’ button on Bayview Center

Everyone agrees the Bayview Community Center should be replaced. However, we at Inweekly believe that more input from the public and the Pensacola City Council…

Poll: Less than half of city voters support expensive Bayview Center

Yesterday, Inweekly/Political Matrix surveyed 450 likely voters of the City of Pensacola and found the city is divided on whether to spend $9.6 million on…

Olson cuts a half million off Bayview Center cost, still 60 percent over budget

Yesterday, City Administrator Eric Olson sent the Pensacola City Council a new budget for the proposed Bayview Community Center that reduced the total budget from…

Timeline for Bayview Center very different from Sanders Beach Center

Before this year, the Sanders Beach Corrine Jones Community Center was the most expensive center built in the city of Pensacola, with a price tag…

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