OK, City of Tallahassee, explain this to taxpayers like we’re stupid. Earlier this year, City Hall paid nearly $3.9 million in incentives to get 171 employees to leave. Now, just months later, the city’s proposed FY2027 budget calls for 20 more employees than it has in the current budget.[…]
Four months ago, Madam Sunshine looked into her crystal ball. Today, the City Commission made her prediction official.[…]
TALLAHASSEE — Red Tape Florida has filed a series of public-records requests with the City of Tallahassee seeking information about taxpayer-funded vehicles provided to some of City Hall’s highest-ranking officials.[…]
One of the questions Red Tape Florida gets asked most often is simple: “Do local governments ever actually change?”[…]
Palm Coast doubled its impact fees. A judge just said: Not so fast. […]
A year ago, Ricardo Schneider — then president of Danfoss Turbocor, one of the few Tallahassee companies expanding at real scale — set a deadline: if the region didn’t land at least two new business commitments within 12 months, it would be a “community failure.” That deadline has now passed. No new businesses have been secured, and Schneider isn’t backing off.
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When Red Tape Florida asked the City of Tallahassee to show how its voluntary buyout program would save more than $8 million a year, the city’s response was remarkable: there was no spreadsheet, no financial model, and no position-by-position analysis supporting the claim. […]
At Tiger Bay a few weeks ago, I talked about what I believe drives successful communities. Economic development isn’t the responsibility of one organization. It’s a four-legged stool.[…]
The Florida Legislature made a clear decision this year. The government shouldn’t get paid for work it didn’t do.[…]
Red Tape Florida’s recent piece on Austin’s successful efforts to tackle affordable housing had a lot of important themes: […]