by Mark Taylor Mayor Hayward Has Shown Poor Judgement In Dealing With City of Pensacola Streets. This recent controversy over the 6-cent gas tax allocation from the county to the city has…
Tag: Local Option Gas Tax
What does the City gas tax appeal say
In the cover letter to the Administration Commission, which includes Gov. Rick Scott and the other members of the Florida Cabinet-Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO Jeff Atwater and Commissioner of Agriculture Adam…
Buzz: Hayward appeals gas tax issue to Gov. Rick Scott
A day after Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May sent his few additions to the city’s ambitious three-year street paving program, Mayor Ashton Hayward notified the Board of County Commissioners that he was…
Barker adds another wrinkle to gas tax agreement
The Pensacola City Council approved the gas tax allocation plan passed by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners with one significant change. The BCC approved using the city’s audited financial reports to…
Hayward cut street work and increased dependency on gas tax
The City of Pensacola has always depended on its share of the Local Option Gas Tax to cover the majority of its expenditures on streets and sidewalks. Other cities find other ways…
Underhill does not see City getting more gas tax [podcast]
Commissioner Doug Underhill said yesterday on “Pensacola Speaks†that he does not see the county continuing to give the City of Pensacola greater than its share of the Local Option Gas Tax….
Mayor Hayward puts pressure on BCC re:Local Option Gas Tax
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward is asking the Pensacola City Council to pass a resolution authorizing bonds up to $15 million to finance street work. The only problem is the Escambia Board of…
Escambia BCC discusses Local Option Gas Tax and Escambia Co. Jail on July 14
A special Board of County Commissioners Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, July 14 at 9 a.m. to discuss issues concerning the Local Option Gas Tax and the Escambia County Jail. The…
Escambia County not in a hurry to set Local Option Gas Tax allocation with Pensacola
Last Thursday, the Pensacola City Council passed an inter-local agreement with the Board of County Commissioners for the allocation of the Local Option Gas Tax. The formula proposed by CFO Dick Barker,…
Gas tax revenue allocation goes back to staff
Wisdom prevailed at the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners meeting last night. Rather than negotiate the percentages of how the Local Option Gas Tax revenues will be distribution with the city…
City of Gulf Breeze funds street paving using other sources, not just gas taxes
Gulf Breeze City Manager Buz Eddy told Inweekly that the city of Gulf Breeze spends about $450,000 on paving and sidewalks. Half of the expenditures are funded by the city’s allocation of…
Mayor Hayward and Olson fight to keep old tax allocation
Yesterday afternoon, Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson sent Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown a letter requesting the county continue the current Local Option Gas Tax allocation of 18.22 percent. He also included…