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Tag: ECUA
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 office complex is Touart and the commissioners…
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 relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment…
City Council discusses ECUA plan today!!!
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WORKSHOP HAGLER MASON CONFERENCE ROOM SECOND FLOOR, MEZZANINE LEVEL, CITY HALL 3 p.m.
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 in favor of moving that plant than…
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 total local option sales tax collections each…
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 moving the Main Street Sewage Treatment Plant….
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 could pay for it with a $4.80-$6…
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 fees BY BRADLEY “B.J.†DAVIS, JR. Gulf…
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 $115 million to move the Main St….
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 in money). What will make sense is…
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 ECUA to help pay for the remaining…
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 House Speaker Mario Rubio and is being…
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 relocating the Main Street sewage treatment plant….
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 his own plan which called for the…
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 (who provides them sewer) give them a…
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 million. In 2005, the utility’s revenues exceeded…
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 Executive Director Steve Sorrell sent a letter…
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: ECUA could borrow the entire amount if…
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 info-mercials. “Angels in our Midst” and the…
