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- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Dec 13, 2011
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Hillsborough Tea Partiers & liberal activists unite on opening up garbarge collection contract
The current trash companies say the public is satisfied with their services.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Oct 1, 2011
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UPDATE:Kevin Beckner responds to "ultra-liberal San Francisco style agenda" that potential GOP opponent alleges
Iuculano's letter compares Beckner to national Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Aug 4, 2011
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BOCC gets heated with approval of ordinances and consolidation of Section 8 housing
After spirited debates, BOCC approves transfer of housing authority 5-2 and unanimously approves plan to explore ordinances.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jul 13, 2011
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Hillsborough County Commission votes 6-0 to allocate funds for Ybor City's historic district
Hillsborough County Commission votes 6-0 to allocate 2 million dollars for historic preservation of Ybor City's Latin Quarter.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jul 13, 2011
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Hillsborough County Commission supports possibilities of working with public access channel on new programming - but sounds doubtful about committing funds
Commissioners sounded enthusiastic about TBCN working with the county on programming - but were noticeably mum when it came to offering financing.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Jun 21, 2011
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Hillsborough Commissioners vote on new re-districting map, alienating Latino advocates
Despite their advocacy, Latino advocates were shut out of gathering support for what they called, "The People's Map."
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 25, 2011
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Hillsborough Commissioners to investigate Renee Lee-Kevin White lunch
Commissioner Mark Sharpe said that he had lost confidence in Lee's abilities, but later said he still wanted to hear her side of the story.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 3, 2011
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Public meetings on Hillsborough County re-districting begins
Districts 1 and 3, represented on the new Board of County Commissioners by Sandy Murman and Les Miller, respectively, are below that 300,000 level, while District 2 and 4, chaired now by Victor Crist and Al Higginbotham, are above that.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Feb 17, 2011
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Equality Florida blasts BOCC for naming Terry Kemple to Hillsborough County's Human Relations Board
The Hillsborough County Human Relations Board is charged with encouraging equality among all people by reviewing complaints filed under Hillsborough County's Human Rights Ordinance which promotes fair treatment and equal opportunity for people regardless of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, or marital status, but not sexual orientation.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 25, 2010
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Will county commissioners let developers spoil aquatic preserve and destroy wildlife habitat on the Little Manatee River?
Developers want to kill 250 trees and bulldoze wildlife habitat, spoiling a breathtakingly beautiful part of the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve, just to build eight houses where they don't belong: on a fragile, skinny mangrove-lined sand-spit, sticking out into the middle of the Little Manatee River at Mill Bayou. It's hard to imagine a worse place to build houses than in the middle of the Little Manatee River — an undammed, dynamic, tidal river that floods frequently. This little spit (only 300 feet wide!) is sometimes completely underwater, and yanking out the trees and vegetation would only make it more vulnerable to storm damage and erosion.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 19, 2010
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ABC makes their presentation about Tampa Bay Rays stadium future to Hillsborough County Commissioners
The discussion came on the same day that the nascent group, BuildItDowntownTampa, announced that they formed an investment group that has been organized to secure the land needed to build a new park in Tampa. A spokesman for the group, Ryan Neubauer, said there few details that could be released today, but promised to have more information in the coming months. He would say that two sites east of downtown Tampa are being looked at by his group.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 13, 2010
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Hundreds come out to speak on transit referendum in Hillsborough County, as commissioners vote to put the measure on the November ballot
Commissioners moved the meeting to the All People's Life Center, essentially a large high school gym (with the acoustics to match), because of the anticipated public turnout, which was the first meeting devoted exclusively as to whether the BOCC should vote to allow the public to decide whether to raise another penny to the county's sales tax to pay for light rail, buses and improved roads. If approved, the sales tax increase would raise approximately $178 million annually, and according to the Hillsborough MPO, cost the average family in the county $142 annually.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, May 12, 2010
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Public's turn to decide whether there should be a ballot measure for light rail in Hillsborough County
All indications are that the vote will be 5-2 in support; Commissioners Al Higginbotham and Jim Norman have been relentless in attacking the measure, though as others (such as Commission Chair Ken Hagan) have said, the vote is to allow the public to decide on whether or not to tax themselves to begin the first leg of a light rail system that supporters say is desperately needed in the region.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Apr 26, 2010
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USF Students to listen to and discuss light rail proposal in Hillsborough County
Tuesday night commissioner Sharpe, along with HART CEO David Armijo and TBARTA Chairman Ronnie Duncan will speak at a forum designated for USF students to learn more about the proposal
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Apr 21, 2010
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Hillsborough County Commissioners voice support for Bill McCollum's lawsuit to throw out health care law
Beckner added that caring for the uninsured is what drives up health care costs and "I'm not an expert on the health care bill, but I do know we need reform. " Beckner said he did believe in looking into what the costs might mean in terms of a Medicaid match, but said that it's unclear how it would impact the county.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Apr 7, 2010
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Future of Hillsborough County's Children's Board at stake?
A motion to amend the language of the bills went down to defeat, thus paving the way for a 5-1 vote support of in fact, killing the bill. But that may be only symbolic, as the possibility that the future of the Children's Board of Hillsborough County could go up for a popular vote and be rejected later this year is still a possibility.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Mar 22, 2010
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Keeping score at Hillsborough's latest taxpayer funded backstabbing match; one CL reader calls Hagan's performance an ineffective bravado with a flaccid finish.
Three of Hillsborough's top employees work to make backstabbing an Olympic sport as taxpayers are stuck paying for their antics. Commissioners had the chance to end this during Wednesday's meeting but despite all the tough talk leading up to the discussion, they did nothing but hire an attorney.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Mar 17, 2010
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Hillsborough Commissioners approve ballot language for transit tax
But Commissioner Ferlita then suggested a 3rd option, that would make explicit the 75/25 split, but would also reword the language so that it would begin by referencing the tax first, followed up by the actual project. She said that language would echo how the 1996 Community Investment Tax was worded.
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Mar 10, 2010
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High and low drama as Hillsborough officials answer back to calls for their termination
Renee Lee then had her attorney, Chinwe O. Fossett, give a verbal smackdown on the board. Fossett said she was offended and disturbed by the call for Lee's firing, saying the board had "no reason to question her integrity." She called previous criticisms of Lee (as well as the FDLE investigation into her getting a 1% pay raise) "irrelevant things based on speculation."
- Blogs, Daily Loaf, Mar 10, 2010
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Why is Hillsborough County Auditor Jim Barnes being asked to resign?
There is no question that Barnes work performance has been severely criticized by commissioners over the past couple of years, with none more vocal than Rose Ferlita. Barnes was the subject of a blistering report by Orlando's auditor just a couple of weeks ago that said that his performance "does not conform to professional standards." But in this latest imbroglio, Barnes seems from the surface to have not done anything wrong. But maybe we're missing something.
