Welcome To Year Two of Annual Training
Last year we requested the annual training for the City management. We specifically requested the Anti-harassment, ethics, and diversity due to the disparaging text messages sent about Cassandra Jackson and our neighbors. The request made last year was on November 1, 2023 and every manager completed the anti-harassment training on November 1st. For the general […]
Trust In Information: But What Information Can We Trust?
Superintendent Rocky Hanna went before the state to present his plan for Apalachee Elementary School. The state relies on the superintendent to bring and present data and information needed for the betterment of the district. The state, like our neighbors, trust that the information will be accurate and transparent. Hanna reported to the Tallahassee Democrat […]
The Impact of Christian Elected Leaders In Tallahassee’s Local Government
“Honest intentions dread not a public cognizance.” – Matthew Henry Recent information on City Director of Strategic Innovation Thomas Whitley surfaced. The information shook not just the local government but also our Christian neighbors. Since publishing our original post on this topic, we are hearing from many of our Christian neighbors. Many speaking to a […]
“No One Can Compete With Us”
Tallahassee leaders gathered at City Hall for a regularly scheduled commission meeting. Congratulations in handling the storm were exchanged and City Manager Reese Goad proudly stated “no one can compete with us.” Two major historic hurricanes made landfall in a couple of weeks. Linemen across the state, and even country, began working tirelessly to restore […]
When School Executives Receive Large Raises, What Is The Impact?
When Rocky Hanna gives raises, he gives big. At least to School executives. The average percent increase for a non-union American was 3.8% last year. According to the Pay Type 9 document, that our neighbor Joe Burgess published, one employees received a 32% raise in one year in the same position. The next year she […]
The City Of Tallahassee Fails To Collect $3 Million in Fire Service Fees
A public records requests reveals that Leon County Schools (LCS) has not been paying their fire service fees since December 31st 2020. In fact, they don’t even feel the need to have it budgeted anymore. In 2021/2022 school year they stopped allocating it all together. A recorded budget meeting from July 2021, LCS acknowledges the […]
Firefighter’s 13th Negotiation For The 3 Year Contract
Earlier today our Firefighters met with the City in the 13th negotiation meeting for the three year contract. Unfortunately CapitalTea is a small organization and our equipment malfunctioned today. We have diagnosed the microphone problem and have a plan in place to prevent future occurrences of this happening again. Thank you for your patience with […]
The Impact of Central Staff Reclassification
Leon County Schools superintendent, Rocky Hanna, defended the increase in central staff spending at the last School Board meeting. He states that the increase in number and in spending is due to reclassification of employees. This defense is a result of a Public Records Request that Superintendent candidate, Joe Burgess, published earlier this week. The […]
Why “Ghost” Candidate In Our Local Elections Matter
Before we began FloridaCapitalTea, our team had varying degrees of interest in local politics. Some of us knew nothing and followed nothing. So when we first started to hear about “ghost” candidates from Valerie Crowder one of our team members asked, “So why does this matter?” On the surface, this appears to be a colossal […]
How Much Taxpayer Money Has Each Elected Spent Since 2019?
Recently we were asked on X (formally Twitter) about Jack Porter’s spending with taxpayer money. One of our neighbors specifically wanted to know about her trip to a Local Progress Conference. However, we felt it would only be fair reporting to look into all the elected official spending. We would like to provide a disclaimer […]
Taxpayers Cost Of Business With Tallahassee Reports
FloridaCapitalTea was asked recently to look into the amount of money the city spends on media outlets. Our neighbors express distrust in the local media and their stories. Many express they feel like the media writes stories in a slant to better represent the city management at the cost of information to the public. While […]
Text Messages Reveal Entanglement of Grow Tallahassee and City Commissioners
The Origin of Grow Tallahassee We discovered text messages between Curtis Richardson’s Aide and Bugra Demirel. We discovered that Richardson and his aide were confidants and possibly collaborators in the founding of Grow Tallahassee. They have been in correspondence with each other since the founding of Grow Tallahassee back to May 2020. Due to who […]
Our Relationship With The Florida League of Cities
The City of Tallahassee is a Proud member of Florida League of Cities (FLC). Mayor Dailey, Diane Williams-Cox, and Reese Goad received a “Home Rule” Award from this organization. After the award was presented, FloridaCapitalTea wanted to know more about this organization we are associated with. According to their website https://www.flcities.com/about-pages/about they have been a […]
A New Generation, A New School Structure
FloridaCapitalTea wanted to know if our current school structure works for our Tallahassee families. We reached out to you with a survey a few weeks ago and compiled the responses. We ran this survey for about one week and received 76 responses. Prior to Covid, there were cracks in the foundation of our school system. […]
A Hard Decision Needs To Be Made Quickly: LCS
Leon County Schools was faced with a hard decision at the end of this week. Close the Schools for a Florida storm or remain open. The last time the Schools closed for a storm, the storm was minor. Parents were angry that the schools closed for seemingly no reason. However, the opposite occurred on Friday […]
Curtis Richardson For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Curtis Richardson. Looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference, we explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your own research on […]
Bernard Stevens Jr For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Bernard Stevens Jr. We are looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference. We explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your […]
County Candidates: The Questions We Wanted To Know
First and foremost we would like to thank the County candidate that responded and participated. While 850CapitalTea does hold our own bias we feel it would be a disservice to our audience to not allow all candidates an opportunity to answer the same questions and have the attention of our viewers. It takes courage to […]
City Commission Candidates: The Questions We Wanted To Know
First and foremost we would like to thank all the City Commission Candidates that responded and participated. While 850CapitalTea does hold our own bias we feel it would be a disservice to our audience to not allow all candidates an opportunity to answer the same questions and have the attention of our viewers. It takes […]
School Superintendent Candidates: The Questions We Wanted To Know
First and foremost we would like to thank all the Leon County School Superintendent candidates that responded and participated. While 850CapitalTea does hold our own bias we feel it would be a disservice to our audience to not allow all candidates an opportunity to answer the same questions and have the attention of our viewers. […]
