FLCapitalTea

12/23/2025

✨We are better and louder together. If you have been looking for way to be more involved in local politics, here are some suggestions during the holidays:

-Take a few minutes and email our local elected officials. Let them know that our community hospital deserves more time and our neighbors deserve their answers to be answered. Or email our school board and let them know we want to see the IDEA fund information.

-Keep the conversations going that are happening in our community. The sale of the golf course, the sale of the hospital, the low pay of our hard-working neighbors, the resources being denied to our students in schools.

🫶We are better together and we deserve a local government that responds and respects all our neighbor’s voices.

12/22/2025

This is from a recent agenda review for Leon County Schools.

🫶Stay engaged remain involved, and keep the conversation going.

12/21/2025

✨ Our community is worth more than sloppy appraisals and quick deal made behind closed doors.

✨Our community deserves a slow methodical sale on our public assets. Our neighbors still have great questions that have been unanswered.

✨Our community is worth more than watching these quick sales happen from the sidelines.

✨Even neighbors supportive of a sale have expressed that this is a low sale price and has been rushed.

✨So what can we do?

-Email all the commissioners (contact list in comments)
-Show up to the January 14th meeting and sign up to speak
-Keep the conversation going with your friends and family.

✨What we need to happen:

-We need our commissioners to slow down the process and count all the costs prior to approval
-Answer community questions about the sale
-Allow for town halls which the community can participate in.

✨Join Tallahassee ALERT for more updates and to get involved in ways to amplify everyone’s voices.

🫶We are better together, keep the conversation going

12/20/2025

✨Recently the Tallahassee Democrat published the pay of some of the top executives in Leon County Schools.

✨However, many neighbors reported a pay wall or the link not working. So we compiled this list of the superintendent’s pay and included three years.

✨This is sourced from our public records requests.

🫶keep the conversation going. We are better together

12/18/2025

Stay engaged. Remain involved

12/17/2025

✨Our public assets being sold should be sold at a reasonable value and with the input of the community.

✨Most neighbors believe tha TMH would benefit with a partnership with FSU but have expressed hesitation around the price it is selling for and the the lack of consideration for our neighbors weighing in on concerns.

✨Our community deserves a seat at the table and transparency around the sale of public owned assets.

🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together

12/17/2025

✨Here is Commissioner Matlow asking about the sale of TMH a week ago at the 12/10/25 meeting.

✨Had we not had a commissioner ask about the current proposed sale price, would we have received that media release yesterday?

✨In the MOU, does FSU assume the bonds/debt that have been incurred for TMH by the city or will our local taxes still be encumbered by the debt?

🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together and our local community should be at the forefront of these negotiations.

12/16/2025

The press release is stating 1.7 billion total. The press release is inaccurate and misleading.

Matlow is correct in stating it is only $109million.

FSU is investing in themselves with the upgrades.

Tax payers should not be subsidizing FSU.

12/16/2025

“While several principals do appear within the top 20, the highest salaries are held by central office and administrative positions – a distinction that highlights how compensation is distributed across the district’s leadership”

✨During a recent compensation study, we learned how a neighbor has worked with the district for the district 54 years and is still in the lowest tier for pay.

🫶Keep the conversation going.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/education/2025/12/16/leon-county-schools-10-highest-paid-employees-revealed/87623738007/g

The Tallahassee Democrat reviewed official salary records and identified the 10 highest-paid employees in Leon County Schools.

12/15/2025

✨This is not the first time that our elected officials inquiries have gone ignored by our city manager.

✨However, in his ignoring them, he is missing important issues that neighbors have.

✨This portion of the meeting was during closing comments/sharing of ideas and the full clip can be viewed through the city’s platforms.

🫶Keep the conversation going, we are better together

12/12/2025

✨Our county commissioners approve staff to seek a study to allow them to know the costs of starting their own fire department.

✨This comes after the city served their decades long interlocal agreement. While the county still desires to have combined services as this is in the best interest of all our neighbors, they understand they need to prepared for if the city does not have a change of heart.

Full clip starts approximately 1:30:00 and last about an hour.

✨We are better and stronger together. Keep the conversation going 🫶