Yesterday, Mayor Ashton Hayward announced that his Chief Operations Officer, Tamara Fountain, had resigned. Before the official announcement was sent to the media, Hayward sent a memo to the Pensacola City Council….
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COO Fountain resigns
Press Release: The City of Pensacola announced today that Tamara Fountain would step down as Chief Operations Officer in order to pursue other opportunities. During her tenure, Fountain has managed the City’s…
PBR: Olson has his own cover-up
While his co-leader, COO Tamara Fountain, is battling to keep her job, City Administrator Eric Olson has some explaining to do about the Planning Department and the Planning Board–both of which fall…
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 Chief Operations Officer. He misstates her salary…
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 Castille replaced Reynolds. She, too, was in…
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 Olson. Fountain was used in November 2012…
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 before the board on behalf of a…
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 Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc. and on…
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 that benefit themselves, family members or business…
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 Government Street? What is the role of…
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 board voted in their favor on July…
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 board, the attorneys will meet. John Daniel…