A special meeting has been called by High Springs commissioners for Tuesday, January 17, with only two agenda items: a final vote on the decision to operate Alachua County’s Poe Springs Park, and narrow down the field of city manager applicants and schedule interviews with the applicants.
The vote on Poe Springs comes after several [...]
The former High Springs manager found his new home Friday.
If you had to choose six words to describe Monday’s city commission meeting, those would be just the ones.
And unfortunately for High Springs it paints an starkly accurate picture of the city’s financial future.
After serving for eight weeks as the acting manager, Parham is bumped up to interim city manger of the City of High Springs.
All options will be discussed on how to fill the vacant position at Tuesday’s meeting.
Eric May will once again had the opportunity to come onto the popular local talk-radio program Talk of the Town.
In a surprise turn of events, the High Springs city commission voted 4-1 to terminate the six-year manager’s contract.
This Thursday the High Springs City Commission will hold their first public hearing for the passage of the FY2011 Budget. The budget, originally presented by the city manager on July 26, has seen some significant changes made by the current commission. While some of the modifications have been unanimous, others have become split [...]
After two meetings doing a review of the city manager’s proposed budget-which includes a reduction of $607,000 and the layoff of 14 positions-the city commission opted to set the tentative millage rate the same as last year’s. Despite a 9% drop in property values city-wide, the commssion opted to remain at the existing rate of 6.15 [...]
(EDIT 09/10) After a full outside investigation, it was determined that Cheif Troiano violated city policy and waas suspended for three days. For full story see here: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100909/articles/100909470
There has been a lot of talk lately about a recent letter written by the Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell to our city manager regarding the [...]
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