Let me see if I got this right. The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners distract our performance auditor with political witch hunts, and are now upset that he has been unable to do the job he is supposed to do? We in Hillsborough County created the office of performance auditor in 2002. The one-person shop [...]
The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted to match any cost-saving measures that affect county employees. For instance, if Administrator Pat Bean recommends furloughs (unpaid time off), the BOCC will be subject to the same thing. So, if Bean recommends laying off 15% of county employees, then one commissioner is gone, right? Yeah, right.
“I didn’t even know we had a bus. But I should be driving it.” According to Rose Ferlita’s (former campaign) website, she currently sits on the boards of both Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) and the Public Transportation Commission. She is also currently the Vice Chair for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Chair of the [...]
“This is totally going to get blown out of proportion,” said Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner. He was right. Problem is that he didn’t see that BEFORE Beckner moved to allow county staff to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of offering domestic partnership benefits. By most accounts, Kevin Beckner pulled an upset victory in the race for BOCC in [...]
We’ve already gone over the Tribune’s endorsements for BOCC – Hagan (District 2), Higginbotham (Dist 4), and Beckner (Dist 6). The St. Pete Times echoes those endorsements, but in recommending the two incumbents, the Times whines a bit harder about the lack of viable choices: District 2 (north Hillsborough) Ken Hagan… has a sorry record [...]
I’m sure you’ve already heard that your Hillsborough County BOCC voted 5-2 to rename the county’s Moral Courage Award after long-time local activist and money man Ralph Hughes. According to articles in both the Tribune and the Times, only one person showed up to support the renaming of the award. Neither paper tells us how many [...]
Excerpt from Agenda for 9/17 Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners’ Meeting (page 14): Commissioner Norman [Item #] F-2: Give authority to County Administrator to ask the Hughes family for permission to name the Moral Courage Award after Mr. Ralph Hughes and request a family member to participate in all future presentations. Agenda Backup: “Prior to meeting each commissioner [...]
