Taking A Closer Look At The Magistrate’s Ruling
FloridaCapitalTea takes a closer look at the Magistrate’s ruling. We respect the ruling of the magistrate, although his report raises some questions for us. While we don’t know his all his thoughts on this ruling, we will try to understand the best we can. The Subjective Material In The Magistrate’s Ruling The beginning of this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once In A Career, Firefighters Battle Blaze
On Friday March 22, 2024 at 3:20 in the afternoon The Tallahassee Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire. This Fire was not a typical structure fire for our area and is considered “a once in a career fire.” Many of the fires that our department respond to involve single family homes. According to […]
