Tag: City of Pensacola
Resume-gate: How a snafu became a full blown crisis on the 7th floor of City Hall
On July 24, Mayor Ashton Hayward is interviewed by WEAR TV reporter Amber Southard about his restructuring of his administration and the qualifications of his…
Salaries more and experience less than previous city administrators and managers
Bill Reynolds was Mayor Ashton Hayward’s first city administrator. He was in charge of all city operations, including all the enterprises. His pay was $130,000. Colleen…
Living the good life: COO Fountain has 35 percent pay increase, CA Olson more than doubles in less than two years
It took awhile but Inweekly finally received the personnel folders of the two top city employees: Chief Operations Officer Tamara Fountain and City Administrator Eric…
Sallis says city to change ethics policy on board voting, no comment from Olson
by Jeremy Morrison According to a planning board member who triggered ethical questions with his participation and vote on a matter his business partner brought…
Actually there was memo on how the CMP sublease process should work
Two years ago, City Attorney Jim Messer wrote a memo to the Pensacola City Council on the legal relationship between the city of Pensacola and…
Ethical issues surround City Planning Board
A fundamental tenet of Florida Ethics Law is that public officials, including volunteers who serve on advisory boards, must recuse themselves from votes on issues…
Podcasts: Roundabouts, Opening up Government Street, Planning Board and Food trucks…hmmmm
The Greater Pensacola Chamber’s public policy executive director, Todd Thomson, gives his update on local government meetings. Is there a roundabout in the future for…
The next neighborhood battle for Mayor Hayward
The residents in the Bay Boulevard neighborhood are fighting to keep the city from vacating land on a bluff on Escambia Bay. The city’s planning…
Tweaking of Studer leases begins today
Six days after the Pensacola City Council passed a resolution for the mayor’s office to have an attorney “tweak” the Studer leases approved the CMPA…
CMPA shoots shot across the mayor’s bow, approves Studer leases
The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees did in less than 48 hours what Mayor Ashton Hayward and his COO Tamara Fountain failed to…
Politico: Inside the Republican reversal on the Confederate flag
Politico.org published an article on the behind the scenes of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision to call for the removal of the Confederate flag…
Missing pieces to MCM-BAP MOU puzzle
A few more odd points concerning the MCM-BAP MOU: 1) The cover letter is on MCM-BAP letterhead but addressed to Willy A. Bermello of Bermello…
City Council workshops planned, transparency still a problem
Pensacola City Council President Andy Terhaar emailed the schedule for upcoming workshops on many of the issues I brought up yesterday. The CBRE and Maritime…
Once again City of Pensacola receives award for budget presentation
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) once again has given the City of Pensacola its Distinguished Budget Presentation Award….
City of Pensacola hires new PIO
City COO Tamara Fountain announced this afternoon that Vernon Stewart has been hired as the city’s public information officer. In her email introduction, Fountain said,…
PS Podcast: Julian MacQueen on corporate social responsibility
On Pensacola Speaks yesterday, Julian MacQueen talked about Innisfree Hotels’ corporate social responsibility program, The Hive. Today at 11 am, Innisfree is launching its new…
FDOT may take multi-year funding approach on $3.5 million for VT-MAE project
Interim Airport Director Dan Flynn wrote, “The City of Pensacola has been in contact with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) with respect to funding…
City attorney contract a ‘honest error’
The city of Pensacola’s chief operations officer sent an email to Pensacola City Council yesterday a little before 6 p.m. regarding what she called an…
Catching the CMP javelin, Part 5: Spears separates
The fallout of the CBRE Bait & Switch appears to be Ed Spears, the executive director of the Community Maritime Park, leaving the city of…
Advocate questions need to expand panhandling laws
Nathan Monk, a local advocate for the homeless, has concerns over the city of Pensacola considering stricter panhandling laws and only partially repealing the homeless…
