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11/12/2024

✨So far our city commissioners and city executives have spent $38,936.77 of travel and training so far this year.

✨Any guesses as to who has spent the most this year?

People included in this number
-Mayor John Dailey
-Commissioner Williams-Cox
-Commissioner Matlow
-Commissioner Richardson
-Commissioner Porter
-Reese Goad
-Cynthia Barber
-Karen Jumonville
-David “Wayne” Tedder
-Christian Doolin
-Abena Ojetayo

✨Keep the conversation going, stay engaged, we are better and louder together

11/12/2024

🔥Many comparable departments are reducing the work week of their firefighters

🔥They are also adding new fire stations and growing their departments.

🔥Our brave men and women are world-class. Placing 6th in a world extrication challenge.

🔥Yet our city executives pay them the least of our comparable departments and make them work more.

✨keep the conversation going. We are better together

11/11/2024

✨When you remove one element the entire structure changes…

✨The removal of Dailey provided a city commission that held a discussion, that heard the neighbors, and that made a compromise.

✨This is a step in a direction towards a functioning city commission. Thank you to the commissioners 🫶

✨We are better together

11/11/2024

🍎Teacher negotiations are this week on Thursday (11/4) starting at 5pm

🍎You can watch their meeting live with Leon Teachers

🍎Remain involved, remain aware, and keep the conversation going.

11/10/2024

T-Pain deserves so much respect for coming back and giving our elected officials the chance to make things right.

Let’s celebrate them finally making good on a promise they made to him albeit after trying to deceive him.

11/10/2024

✨William Epting was recommended by DCF for removal from LCS or at the very least from administrative roles

✨Hanna instead promoted him to assistant superintendent.

✨Despite clear evidence and recommendations from an outside agency, Hanna has chosen to place students behind those who have failed to protect our students.

“Tell me who you associate with, and I will tell you who you are” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

11/08/2024

✨During the last commission meeting Mayor Dailey Laughed at Commissioner Porter when she asked a city staff member if they had enough resources.

✨He also left early for something more important than unagenda speakers.

✨Important neighbors showed up to speak after 6 about Historic French town and developers wanting to push out our generational families.

11/08/2024

🍎The school board signed a contract in the early 2000’s for a discounted utility bill in exchange for paying their fire service fee.

🍎Since LCS has stopped paying their fire service fee teachers have dropped in state pay ranking from 36 to 53.

The schools’ spokesperson Chris Petley said LCS does not have to pay the fire fees because they are a government entity and discussed that with the City of Tallahassee about three to four years ago.

11/08/2024

✨These city executives received a 4.2% raise in October.

✨Reese Goad is now making $11,463 more this year for a total of $284,398

-Barber receives $10,408 more
- Doolin receives $9,699 more
- Jumonville receives $9,699 more
-Ojetayo receives $9,699 more
- Tedder receives $9,910 more

✨Keep the conversation going. We are better and louder together

11/07/2024

✨A lot has happened since Rocky was first elected.

-We haven’t seen our district receive an “A” since 2015
-Our teachers have dropped in state pay rank
-current graduation rate is 86.1% compared to 92.3% in 2015-2016 school year ( https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/01/03/lcs-posts-92-percent-grad-rate/96118900/ )
-LCS has become delinquent in paying their bills

✨Rocky Hanna was right, there is a lot left to do. Perhaps these four years he will pull our district back to the honest, A district it used to be.

11/07/2024

🔥The past few weeks our firefighters have been busy

-visiting schools
-competing in a world extrication challenge
-answering calls at a moments notice at all hours of the night

🔥They are more than just firefighters, they are a part of our community.

11/06/2024

Stay engaged. Stay aware.

You are watching a live stream of the City of Tallahassee WCOT channel.

11/06/2024

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

✨We fought the good fight and we finished strong.

✨It’s never over as we continually push towards accountability and truth.

11/05/2024

✨Let’s be sure we place credible leaders in our local government today.

11/05/2024

✨This is Tallahassee’s year. We get to vote and shift the power back into the hands of us, the people.

✨For years we have watched as Dianne Williams-Cox, John Dailey, and Curtis Richardson hand over more of our power to City staff each year.

✨For years we’ve seen Curtis falling asleep during meetings or missing important votes.

✨Dot Inman-Johnson will restore balance to our city commission.

✨Dot Inman-Johnson will return integrity to our city commission.

✨And Dot Inman-Johnson will show up for us and important votes that affect us.

11/04/2024

✨ Curtis Richardson has always voted in line with Dailey and Williams-Cox

✨Or he just doesn’t show up to vote

✨Curtis was absent during the vote for affordable housing

✨Curtis was absent for the firefighter executive session

✨Curtis was silent when his City manager participated in derogatory texts about neighbors, county commissioners, and even Cassandra Jackson

✨Curtis ignored neighbors asking for the protection of a historic oak grove, asking for a PUD agreement for a gas station at ox bottom to be changed, and he ignored neighbors asking for cuts to spending on various projects.

✨Curtis was silent when neighbors went before him about sewage in their homes, firefighter pay, and development of SomoWalls.

✨Tallahassee deserves a City Commission that holds a variety of perspectives and differing opinions. Tallahassee deserves to be heard.

✨Tallahassee deserves more than just a third vote for city staff.

✨Vote to give Tallahassee a diverse commission. Vote Dot Inman-Johnson

We are better and louder together

11/04/2024

📚 Fiscal responsibility is not merely going debt free and we must ask ourselves what are the means that Leon County Schools is taking to become debt free.

📚Fiscal responsibility is paying your teachers, support staff, bus drivers fair competitive wages.

📚Fiscal responsibility is paying your bills

📚Fiscal responsibility is paying therapy staff competitive wages.

📚Fiscal responsibility is providing failing schools with more resources so they don’t fail.

📚Going debt free at the expense of our teachers, students, support staff, and bus drivers is not fiscally responsible.

📚Fiscally responsible is not paying $10 million in artificial grass without doing research first.

📚Fiscal responsibility is not giving administration excessive raises and adding extra administrative positions before paying staff

📚While “debt-free” sounds fiscally responsible, it is harming the people we care about the most.

📚This list is so long because there is so much that our superintendent is failing our district in financially.