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 […]
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 Firefighter’s 175 Money: Why The City Wants It
This past weekend the City Scheduled two impromptu meetings for our firefighter’s three year contract. The meetings were added to the calendar on Monday, a holiday. This brings up the question: Did the city provide enough public notice of this meeting? During both these meetings the City stated they wanted the firefighters to sign over […]
A Summary of The Firefighters One Year Contract
We are awaiting a ruling from the special magistrate in the Arbitration case between our Firefighters and The City of Tallahassee for the firefighters one year contract. Since March of 2024 our Firefighters have been in prolonged negotiations In the past year our firefighters have had 22 meetings with the City. Near the end of […]
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 […]
The OPE: Three City Employees Simultaneously Receive Salary And Pension
After playing the game long enough, a small select few within The City of Tallahassee have discovered the cheat code category OPE. OPE category is short for Other Personnel Expenses. A category so hidden that when 850CapitlTea searched for a description on the City of Tallahassee webpage, we were directed to the 2024 adopted budget. […]
How Much Do Our City Executives Actually Make?
The amount our city executives make is the most shared, commented on, and reacted to information that we have shared with the public. Their annual salaries are, for many of us, an average of four years of work. We look at their salaries slack-jawed and ask ourselves: “Is there a better way we could spend […]
Firefighter Arbitration Case: The Witnesses
The Arbitration meeting took place on March 27, 2024 between The City of Tallahassee and our Tallahassee Firefighters (the Union). Throughout the five hour day, four witnesses that work for the city were brought to the stand to testify. We did not include the Union representative Joey Davis. CapitalTea received several requests asking about the […]
Town Hall With Bill Proctor On Firefighter Pay
Commissioner Bill Proctor started out the town hall meeting with an introduction as to why we were there. He explained his own role and how he felt a conviction to advocate for our brave men and women. Due to the Tallahassee firefighters responding to calls in the county and the county residents paying a fire […]
Current Offers Between The City and Firefighters
After a year of Negotiations between the City of Tallahassee and our Firefighters they will be going before an arbitrator at the end of this month (March 27, 2024). Many people are asking what the current offers are and how do they compare? The Arbitrator has been agreed upon by both parties and will take […]
Demystifying The Firefighter Facts For The Public
Our City government likes to claim things as fact to the public, and are “fearful we are venturing down a path of confusion”. We would like to demystify the City’s offer to the firefighters. We feel that it is important that we talk about some of the claims made by city executives and help you […]
What People Think About LCS Board Meetings Not On Social Media
Do you think Leon County School (LCS) Board should stream their meetings on social media to make it more accessible to the public? This is the question that we asked a couple weeks ago. Across many platforms and in many social media groups the answer was “yes” they should. Many individuals stated that they felt […]
Tallahassee Firefighters address Mayor Dailey
On February 22, 2024 our Tallahassee Firefighters met with the City to start their three year contract. The Firefighters and City still have not come to an agreement on the one year contract. Mayor Dailey recently stated in a NEBA meeting that they would not be able to proceed to negotiating the three year contract. […]
