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Tallahassee’s firefighter union filed a state ethics complaint against City Manager Reese Goad last week alleging he misused his position by relaying a threat to union leaders seeking to find information about their budget.
Filed Wednesday with the Florida Commission on Ethics, the two-page complaint formalizes some of the same issues brought forward earlier this month when the firefighter’s union asked that their funding source, the city’s fire services fee, be audited.
The union claimed Goad threatened its leaders to stop making public records requests seeking information about the use of the fund.
City officials declined to comment on the ethics complaint.
Tallahassee firefighter union requests additional audit on city s fire service fund
The Tallahassee Professional Firefighters requested an additional audit be done to the city s Fire Service Fund.
and last updated 2021-07-09 19:58:48-04
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â The Tallahassee Professional Firefighters requested an additional audit be done to the city s Fire Service Fund.
In a press release, the union said:
In April of 2021 the Fire Chief of the Tallahassee Fire Department was directed by City Administrators to cut $1 million from his budget for the remainder of FY21. In that direction, the Fire Chief was told to entertain reduced services or reduced coverage to make up the shortfall. Due to the safety concerns these cuts would raise, both for the public and the members of the Fire Department, the Tallahassee Professional Firefighters have requested that an audit be completed of the Fire Services Fund. We feel it essential that this fund be immediately examined by an out