Councilwoman Sherri Myers wants to amend the Council Financial Planning and Administrative Policy to put a ceiling on how much the mayor can move around between categories, departments and programs without city…
Tag: Ashton Hayward
City of Pensacola slow to spend BP grant for Veterans Memorial Park
Through a public records request we got the accounting for the BP grant for the renovation of the Veterans Memorial Park on Bayfront Parkway. As of August 8, the city had only…
Buzz: Bureaucratic mess leads to new couch being bought before needs of handicapped met
Barbara Albrecht, the president of the Bream Fishermen Association, is upset with the bureaucratic nightmare at Pensacola City Hall. Her group, which supports, develops, and implements programs which promote the conservation and…
City of Pensacola failed to timely respond to public record requests
In our article “The Upside of Corruption,” I failed to mentioned the State Attorney’s findings and recommendations regarding the Hayward administration handling of public records. We had limited space available in the…
Blue Wahoos attorney responds to Kerrigan epistle
Scott Remington, attorney for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, has responded to attorney Bob Kerrigan’s letter attacking the team and its owners over their agreements with the Community Maritime Park. Kerrigan is an…
One voice missing in YMCA/CMPA debate
Other than a three-sentence email to the Pensacola City Council, Mayor Ashton Hayward has been noticeably absent from the debate over how to fix the process by which the City and the…
Stand down, fumbles and Act II this week
Last week was one of those rare weeks when news seemed to come from every direction. We had Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll, the first African-American female to ever hold that position, resign…
Another Hayward staged showdown on YMCA and CMP
The stage is set for another melodramatic showdown. This one is on whether the YMCA will be allowed to lease a parcel at the Community Maritime Park for its new $10-million downtown…
Where is Mayor Hayward?
Today, Nate Monroe has a column in the daily newspaper regarding the new YMCA. One sentence early in the article struck me: “But it will be up to council members to decide…
City paid The Zimmerman Agency $430K, 84.9 percent of advertising bills
I’ve spent the past two days analyzing the paid The Zimmerman Agency invoices, which total $943,242.43 through Feb. 11. The invoices were received through a public records request placed Tuesday, Feb. 5–the…
Wait, there’s more on The Zimmerman Agency. A second binder?
Another email: Rick, Bill Reynolds asked me to relay to you that we are currently in the process of compiling all Zimmerman records into a central location – this will include emails,…
What does TZA ‘binder’ really tells us?
Yesterday, Mayor Ashton Hayward and his City Administrator Bill Reynolds released the ‘binder’ that Reynolds says documents the city’s troubles with the ad agency that Hayward had hired to handle all of…