FLCapitalTea

09/17/2026

✨Here is a brief school board recap from last week.

✨Some questions our team has is why is there low attendance for the title 1 advisory council? Is this indicative of parents feeling unheard? See the link in comments to the raw data for title 1 and title 2 expenditures.

✨ In an email to the board a teacher described an incident with a knife that they reported and waited a 30 minute response time for school security to respond.

✨Union presidents continue to advocate for their bargaining units and as they look through the budget are asking questions about the spending.

🫶Keep the conversation going. We are better together

09/16/2026

✨Our neighbors are putting in the work and doing the research on how to make tracks accessible to the public. They have found similar municipal agreements and the state statute that supports these agreements.

✨Yet John Dailey and his majority refuse to work even with other governmental agencies.

✨This is a pattern, he refuses to negotiate with the County commissioners on rectifying the interlocal agreement and now he refuses to work with our public school for the benefit of our community.

✨There has been a precedent set in Florida to allow for joint use and to save tax payer dollars, we need to elected officials willing to work with everyone for the benefit of our public.

🫶We are better and healthier together. Keep the conversation going.

09/15/2026

Stay engaged. Remain involved.

We forgot to share the 3pm meeting so don’t forget to watch that one too!

https://www.youtube.com/live/U6GenIihY1w?is=x9MoYYAtyZws0w5K

For more information visit https://cms.leoncountyfl.gov/Home/Commis...

09/14/2026

✨Leon County government meets tomorrow at 3pm.

✨Here is information from the county on this meeting

https://cms.leoncountyfl.gov/Government/Commission-Meetings/Upcoming-Meeting-Information

🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together

09/13/2026

✨Join our conversation with Leon County Democratic chair, Ryan Ray as we discuss issues affecting our local community.

✨You can listen on Apple, Spotify, our website, or YouTube

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We sit down with Local Democratic Chair Ryan Ray to discuss issues ...

09/13/2026

✨9/9/2026 commission meeting. This topic on the Canopy development was about 30 minutes long so for the full conversation you can visit the city’s YouTube channel.

✨During the meeting, staff confirmed that the attorney for the development wrote the agreement and they had not made any changes to the agreement.

✨Dailey stated that a 30 year contract with these developers is important and he doesn’t want to press pause so soon. For reference the fire agreement was started March 1988 and impacts the entire county. However, he rashly ended that contract at the end of a meeting not allowing for public comment.

🫶We are better together, Keep the conversation going.

09/12/2026

✨Lynne Takacs, advocate for intentional development, clearly explains how the changes in the canopy contract will affect us.

🫶We are better and stronger together, keep the conversation going

09/10/2026

✨We have the best neighbors. On less than a 12 hour notice you showed up and amplified all our voices about the city manager contract.

✨Every neighbor that spoke at the meeting, wrote the commission, and shared the information with others added their voice to the conversation and we were LOUD.

✨Three of the five commissioners may not have voted in line with our community but our voices were undeniable.

🫶Keep the conversation going and do not lose heart. We are better and louder together.

09/09/2026

✨What is in the new City Manager contract?

✨Here is what we found important to note:

-First she will receive a $41,702 raise (she was making $275,298 as a deputy city manager)

-Second is the escalating car allowance clause. Every month she will received $1,000 and every year she will receive $50 additional dollars each month. This will result in an additional total of $66,000 by the end of five years. However, the contract will automatically renew and so will that additional money added on each month.

-The city will add the maximum allowable amount into a deferred compensation plan (retirement). That allowable amount is currently $24,000 a year. That means by the end of five years the city will have put at least $120,000 into a retirement account for her.

-Finally is the two-thirds majority vote for termination.

✨We have neighbors working in the city who are struggling to keep their lights on and food on the table. We have neighbors paying their taxes and driving over pot holes on a daily basis… and we have executives in the city making 5.8 times what the average Tallahasse neighbor makes.

🫶We are better and stronger together, keep the conversation going.

*edit to add the link to the contract:

https://go.boarddocs.com/fla/talgov/Board.nsf/pfiles/DXQSVZ7498AD/$file/Attachment%201%20-%20K%20Jumonville%20Agreement%20-%20Proposed.pdf

09/08/2026

This hurts the newly appointed city manager by sowing more public distrust.

We are better and stronger together