Tag: Ashton Hayward
How City of Pensacola public records request system works
On Feb. 4, I sent City Communications Director Tamara Fountain a request: We are looking into doing a story on the city’s public record system….
Maybe Pensacola City Council should put fish hatchery on the ballot
Mayor Ashton Hayward’s proposal to lease Bruce Beach for a $1 a year for 50 years and allow a fish hatchery to be built in…
Questions about Hayward’s proposed fish hatchery persist
The News Journal tackles today Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward’s fish hatchery project—“A new home for a fish farm on Bruce Beach?†The story is a…
Buzz: Homeless advocates expected to show in numbers at Pensacola City Council meeting
I spoke with Rev. Nathan Monk yesterday afternoon after our interview on IN Your Head Radio. The minister who has been an advocate for the…
Outside counsel on airport concession opinion paid $376K by mayor over past two years
When the mayor’s administration wanted to get an outside legal opinion on whether the city council could extend Varona’s food concession lease at the airport…
Many days you cannot make this stuff up: Mayor announces blanket drive
Press Release: Office of the Mayor to Sponsor Week Long Blanket Drive Beginning Wednesday, Feb. 12, the Office of the Mayor will be sponsoring a…
Hayward’s no-blanket ordinance backlash: Pensacola called Most Horrible City on the Planet
On Broward/Palm Beach New Times blog, Chris Joseph criticized today Pensacola for its no-blanket ordinance: “A Florida City Made It Illegal For Homeless People to…
City attorney gets ‘independent’ opinion on airport food concessions lease
The Pensacola City Council contemplated last month extending the current least of the city’s airport food concessions vendor, Varona’s, for the time necessary for Mayor…
Rev. Monk met with Cosson, Fountain…not Mayor Hayward or Castille
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward said last Friday in his ‘Upwords’ that he will support changes to his homeless ordinances the city council passed last year….
OHM threatens lawsuit if Varona given extension
The attorneys for the firm that Mayor Ashton Hayward recommended to be awarded the airport food concessions contract has sent City Attorney Jim Messer a…
Varona makes offer to stay open while city completes new RFP process
Robert Varona, whose contract for food concessions at the Pensacola International Airport expires on March 31, has sent the following letter to Mayor Ashton Hayward…
Homeless ordinances generated from the mayor’s office
There is some confusion over how the city of Pensacola’s homeless ordinances become law. They were passed by the Pensacola City Council last May, but…
