Jesse Rigby, who represents Varona Enterprises of Florida, has pointed out to the City Attorney Jim Messer and the Pensacola City Council a potential violation by the city of 49 CRE 23.75…
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Does OHM Group have a basis for suing the City of Pensacola?
Mayor Ashton Hayward has repeatedly hinted in public meetings, press releases and Facebook videos that OHM Group might sue the city if the company is not awarded the airport food concessions contract….
RFP for Airport Food Concessions says City Council will approve award
Pensacola City Attorney Jim Messer has opined that the mayor can unilaterally award the airport food concessions contract without council approval because there is no city ordinance requiring him to do so….
City attorney says Mayor does not have to competitive bid
City Attorney Jim Messer sent the following email to the Pensacola City Council stating that competitive bidding of the airport food concessions was a council policy and not a city ordinance. Therefore,…
Hayward has five days to veto Varona contract
Will Mayor Ashton Hayward veto the Pensacola City Council’s month-to-month extension Varona’s food concessions contract at the Pensacola International Airport? According to the 2010 City Charter, the mayor has five days to…
Hmmm, City consultant now works with OHM Concession Group
During the debate over who would be awarded the food concessions contract at the Pensacola International Airport, Creative Food Group (Varona’s, Bagelheads, Fish House and Pensacola Bay Brewery) challenged the independence of…
Outside counsel on airport concession opinion paid $376K by mayor over past two years
When the mayor’s administration wanted to get an outside legal opinion on whether the city council could extend Varona’s food concession lease at the airport while the city goes through another RFP…
City attorney gets ‘independent’ opinion on airport food concessions lease
The Pensacola City Council contemplated last month extending the current least of the city’s airport food concessions vendor, Varona’s, for the time necessary for Mayor Ashton Hayward to issue new RFP and…
OHM threatens lawsuit if Varona given extension
The attorneys for the firm that Mayor Ashton Hayward recommended to be awarded the airport food concessions contract has sent City Attorney Jim Messer a letter threatening to challenging any decision to…
Varona makes offer to stay open while city completes new RFP process
Robert Varona, whose contract for food concessions at the Pensacola International Airport expires on March 31, has sent the following letter to Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Pensacola City Council: Dear Mayor…
More on broken sprinkler at Pensacola Airport
Reporters asked Mayor Ashton Hayward and City Administrator Colleen Castille about the broken sprinkler line that flooded the concourse recently. This is the written reply we received today from Airport Director Greg…
Two articles on airport food, two different takes
The issue on the Pensacola City Council agenda is the airport food concessions: Chick-Fil-A vs. The Fish House, Corona Beach House vs. Pensacola Bay Brewery, Einstein Bros. Bagels vs. Bagelheads, Surf City…