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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.
The City of Tallahassee and the Police Benevolent Association announced they reached an agreement for a new three-year contract for Tallahassee Police Officers and Investigators.
Local residents took to social media this past weekend with concerns about unanswered 911 calls in Tallahassee.
Among them were questions and claims such as, Are there no 9-1-1 services after 6PM? and I had that happen to me once when I saw a car accident in the middle of the day.
The Consolidated Dispatch Agency which has come under fire before for staffing, retention and training issues is the joint agency that takes all 911 calls in Leon County and Tallahassee.
Jeanine Gaudin, the director of the agency, said the CDA needs to hire 30 more people to be fully staffed. She said the staff shortage is a possible cause for longer-than-usual wait times.
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CRA funds TLH Arts project, Challenger Center renovations, puts pause on Frenchtown Quarters
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A proposal to fund a performing arts facility in Railroad Square gained support Thursday from the Community Redevelopment Agency, which committed $1.8 million to the project.
The Tourist Development Tax money set to fund the TLH Arts Inc. project is expected to be paired with roughly $1.5 million in private donations the organization is seeking before it begins to bring to life a proposal at least five years in the making.
It also will revive the project which nearly lost all of its funding in February when the CRA diverted money to other projects by LeMoyne Arts and for a Frenchtown museum idea at the city-owned Ashmore’s pharmacy.