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✨Recently all the land sales the city is offering has us feeling like this is a Black Friday inventory liquidation ✨Next...
11/13/2025

✨Recently all the land sales the city is offering has us feeling like this is a Black Friday inventory liquidation

✨Next week two more public land parcels are listed for consideration of sale in downtown.

✨Why is there so much city owned land being sold?

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✨Every year the majority three deny Jack Porter an opportunity to be Mayor Pro Tem ✨This position is usually rotated thr...
11/13/2025

✨Every year the majority three deny Jack Porter an opportunity to be Mayor Pro Tem

✨This position is usually rotated through all commissioners. However, the majority three continue to bully those who don’t align with them.

✨While they point at others and accuse the other commissioners of being difficult or combative, they are the mean girls in this situation.

✨We assume their intent is not to exclude commissioners and the neighbors that voted for the commissioner. This small action is disrespectful to our local government process, our elected officials, and our neighbors.

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🔥All fire services are funded. There are different ways to do this but ultimately they have to be funded. 🔥Our fire depa...
11/12/2025

🔥All fire services are funded. There are different ways to do this but ultimately they have to be funded.

🔥Our fire department chose a special assessment because this requires everyone to contribute (individuals, local and state government, and even tax exempt organizations like churches and educational institutions).

🔥The fire assessment is non ad-valorem. This means it is not going to change with the value of your property. Instead the fee is determined by an assessment. Fees for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential are all assessed at different rates.

🔥 Everyone contributing to the fee lowers the cost for our community, so that businesses and residents aren’t burdened to cover the cost of large government buildings or tax exempt organizations.

🔥We mention this because knowing there are properties in Leon County that aren’t paying at all, have a reduced rate, or their assessed use of the property has not been updated can affect what other fee payers are contributing to maintain a funded fire department.

🔥We want to keep the special assessments because it determines these funds are specifically going to the fire department. We, as an involved community, can request the city produce the records of those funds for us.

🔥We also want to keep the fee because taxes can be exempt. The fee is designed for everyone to pay, lessening the burden on individuals.

🔥Currently the ledgers they produced only show the amount the county has deposited into the fire services account. We need more public oversight on our public monies.

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✨There is an upcoming agenda item to send the entire school board (Hanna isn’t listed) to a conference in December. The ...
11/12/2025

✨There is an upcoming agenda item to send the entire school board (Hanna isn’t listed) to a conference in December. The cost: $7,500

✨What’s being discussed:

-AI in education (heavy on these topics)
-managing the public during financial crisis
-Schools of Hope

✨At the beginning of the school year the entire district was notified of a freeze on travel starting in August due to financial constraints.

✨Consistency builds trust in the community and among staff. The district’s yes is sometimes no and their no is sometimes yes.

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11/12/2025

Community organizations, including the NAACP and Tallahassee ALER,T are inviting neighbors to a town hall meeting on November 18th to discuss the TMH-FSU deal over new ownership of the hospital.

✨There is an opportunity to be involved.✨The county commission will be discussing and voting on a new map for the compre...
11/11/2025

✨There is an opportunity to be involved.

✨The county commission will be discussing and voting on a new map for the comprehensive plan. This new map will no longer have the Phipps property urban services area expansion on it.

✨County staff is recommending to accept the state’s recommendations which would not allow development North of Lake Jackson where that environment is particularly sensitive.

“2) Do not expand the USA or change land use designations west of Meridian Road to protect
the Lake Jackson Basin and maintain established rural and environmental protections.”

✨You can contact your county commissioners and let them know you want them to approve staff recommendations to continue to protect our natural environment.

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✨We wrote out the process so far for the IDEA funding public records request through Leon County Schools See comments fo...
11/11/2025

✨We wrote out the process so far for the IDEA funding public records request through Leon County Schools

See comments for full website post on our experience obtaining one aspect of the district’s finances

✨Last week we decided to pursue voluntary mediation, we haven’t heard a response from Leon County Schools. However, they only received our initiation letter on Friday.

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11/10/2025

✨The majority of neighbors are still concerned over the sale of TMH

✨Many want to know why the city has to sell in order for FSU to continue their partnership with TMH

✨Others would appreciate more opportunity for neighbors to ask questions and become informed, while some suggested this go the public for a vote.

✨Many neighbors expressed concern over the state involvement.

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✨Words are important, but they aren’t evidence of true subscriptions (beliefs). ✨The city told our neighbors they would ...
11/10/2025

✨Words are important, but they aren’t evidence of true subscriptions (beliefs).

✨The city told our neighbors they would hold off on the destruction of a historic oak grove, less than 12 hours later they were tearing down the trees and later in the week investigating our county commissioner who was also there.

✨During a Blueprint meeting, the votes weren’t going the way the city commission wanted. So Dailey, Richardson, and Williams-Cox left the meeting. Bringing all business to a stop.

✨When the county requested the fire budget (which per the contract they have a right to see at any time) the city chose to end all relationships with the county.

✨While Mayor Dailey might tell us the sale of TMH and Capital City Country Club is good for the community, historical actions tells us that he is not interested in what is best for the community.

✨We haven’t heard a single neighbor against a partnership with FSU. But as one neighbor stated “why must we sell the hospital to have the partnership?”

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🏌🏻‍♂️We read through both appraisals for Capital City golf course. 🏌🏼‍♂️The biggest takeaway we saw was a lack of inform...
11/09/2025

🏌🏻‍♂️We read through both appraisals for Capital City golf course.

🏌🏼‍♂️The biggest takeaway we saw was a lack of information given to both the appraisers. Neither report mentions the historic cemetery and the possible impact that has on the property.

🏌🏼‍♂️One of the reports uses the map of a city 237 miles from us as the “Neighborhood Analysis”

🏌️‍♂️ Both reports feel rushed and we wonder if the appraisers completing the reports had adequate time and information available.

⛳️See the comments for full website post with more details

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After further investigation it appears that this is possibly a reallocation within the grant allocation category.The gra...
11/09/2025

After further investigation it appears that this is possibly a reallocation within the grant allocation category.

The grant for this program has specific codes and once the money has been allocated to categories it has to stay there. It is possible this was a final reallocation (prior to submitting to the state) from the materials supplies within the grant to salaries within the grant.

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