IN reporter Sean Boone attended yesterday Council meeting. This is his report. Another day, another Community Maritime Park meeting. On Monday, Pensacola City Council spent nearly three hours discussing an updated developer…
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CMP developer agreement still not complete
Pensacola City Manager Al Coby has issued a memo to the city council that the developer agreement between CMPA and the Maritime Park Development Partners has yet to be finalized. He states…
Covenant with the Community amendments approved
The CMPA board approved ian amendment that set priorities for the Equal Business Opportunity (EBO) program – the final document will be approved on Thursday: “The EBO Program will concentrate on finding…
IN CMP Finance Proposal
City Finance Director Dick Barker is proposing a finance plan for the Community Maritime Park that will cost $92.6 million and have level annual payments of $3.3 million (finance-agenda-4-6-09_164134-2). The bond market…
CRA can reduce annual payments to ECUA
Under Section 4.5 of the Interlocal Agreement, CRA can reduce the annual payments to the ECUA if the Florida Constitution is amended or the state legislature pays a bill that reduces the…
City contract with ECUA allows for reduction
According to Article 5 Financing and Performance of the Interlocal agreement between the CRA/City and ECUA that was approved by City Council April 2007: “…if the final actual Costs of the Project…
Buzz:Does ECUA need money from the City?
The recession has caused bids for many projects to come in much lower than expected. The New York Times (Companies Pretty Up Prices to Win Stimulus Projects) reports construction companies, hungry for…
Elebash misstates facts in viewpoint
C.C. Elebash misstates the facts in his March 28 PNJ viewpoint, “Start slow with park infrastructure “: “The CRA would now have negative cash flow if its bonds had been sold in…
Elebash wants CMP, not stadium
Surprise, surprise. In his viewpoint in the PNJ today, C.C. Elebash wants the park infrastructure- roads, utilities, grading and environmental work-done, but nothing else on the CMP property. This creates few jobs…
Anti-CMP experiment shows why P’cola moves slow
I thank my regular blog readers for indulging me in my week-long experiment with the anti-CMP cult. Since 2005, we have had a small group of naysayers out to stop the Community…
Mythbusted: Independent Baseball Thrives
Mythbusted: Independent Baseball Thrives Posted on March 24, 2009 The anti-CMP cult like to scoff at the Pensacola Pelicans because they aren’t affiliated with a major league baseball team. They call them…
Anti-CMP 0-3
The anti-Community Maritime Park are 0-3 on proving their wild allegations – really they’re lies, but I’m trying to be nice. Federal Judge Lacey Collier was not appointed and controlled by Quint…