Theme Song for this week’s ECUA/County/City negotiations

BARENAKED LADIES -ONE WEEK Click Here to View   Remember the closing line: “It’s still one week before we say we’re sorry.”

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Touart calls surprise meeting on ECUA plan

Touart has hastily called a “Calendar” meeting tomorrow at 9 a.m. for the county commissioners to discuss their upcoming meeting schedule…..The Buzz around the county…

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City Council tells staff to draft interlocal agreement on plant

The Pensacola City Council voted unanimously to have staff draft interlocal agreements for the CRA & City with the ECUA on the financing of the…

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City Council discusses ECUA plan today!!!

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WORKSHOP HAGLER MASON CONFERENCE ROOM SECOND FLOOR, MEZZANINE LEVEL, CITY HALL 3 p.m.

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Touart wants to move plant

County Administrator George Touart called last night. He believes he’s being made the scapegoat on this issue and is being treated unfairly. “There’s nobody more…

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Complete Spreadsheet on Plant Relocation

This shows the City and County’s portions of the CRA, plus what they can contribute from their LOST funds – less than 3% of their…

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ECUA has plan to move plant

Thanks to public record requests – I obtained the powerpoint presentation that O’Sullivan Creel has used in its latest presentations to ECUA board members on…

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ECUA should pay me

Today’s cover story for the PNJ is on the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant. Indepth analysis by O’ Sullivan Creel has concluded that the ratepayers…

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Gulf Breeze plans to raise water and sewer rates

They won’t be asking Escambia County and the City of Pensacola to chip in either From GB Daily News: City considers raise in water, sewer…

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Priorities

Let’s assume, as the daily newspaper has, that Escambia County and Pensacola have the reserves and/or revenue sources to pay a significant portion of the…

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PNJ wants City and County to pay

Today the daily newspaper weighed in on the funding on the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant – (City and county should kick…

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FEMA tells ECUA find the $115M elsewhere

Just as we predicted months ago – and just as Sen. Bill Nelson and Congressman Jeff Miller told them – FEMA rejected another grant to…

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Blog Buzz: Benson, Touart, ECUA, Valentino

Now these are some of the rumors that I’ve heard over the past few days: State Rep. Holly Benson has fallen out of favor with…

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ECUA ignores public survey

In June 2004, UWF and the Listener Group conducted a survey of county residents on a wide variety of local issues. One was on the…

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ECUA Walker had a plan

Larry Walker, ECUA District 5, defeated Robert Tekenkamp in 2004 by attacking Tekenkamp’s position on relocating the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant. Walker even had…

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Cities may takeover sewer utility

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports Pembroke Pines, Pembroke Park, Dania Beach and West Park are meeting this week to discuss how to make Hollywood…

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ECUA has money…lots

The 2005 audited financials show ECUA is the wealthiest utility in NWFL. ECUA has about $53.6 million in unrestricted assets. Its net assets are $230…

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ECUA inept, hides capacity issue

  ECUA continues to play the begger and ignore their legal obligation to move the Main St. Sewage Treatment Plant.  The PNJ reports today: ECUA…

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ECUA may buy land

ECUA has on its Nov. 16 agenda the purchase of land near Solutia – price tag $13 million. ECUA Board member Larry Walker told PNJ:…

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WEAR Hostage: Day 2

The battle between Mediacom and Sinclair (owner of WEAR TV3) rages on. Gulf Breeze cable subscribers worry about where they will get their late night…

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