SARASOTA – Marlon Brown was still trying to find his way around City Hall in Tallahassee when the head of the transportation planning department was forced to resign. Shortly afterward, the assistant chief quit in protest.
Fresh out of Georgia Tech, and three months off his flight from Atlanta, there Brown was: the last remaining member of the city of Tallahassee and Leon County’s transportation planning department.
“I busted my butt to make sure that division did not fail,” Brown said. “The good thing about it, I was single at the time. I could be there until 8 o’clock at night making sure that the i’s were dotted and t’s were crossed for the weekend.”
MINT HILL, NC – A letter by Beth Hamrick remembering Troy Pollard.
Troy Pollard served as Mayor of the Town of Mint Hill from 1975 until his 1991 retirement from office. Under Mayor Pollard’s leadership, the Town of Mint Hill’s foundation was built to make mint Hill ‘the place’ to live as a thriving Mecklenburg County town known for its small-town atmosphere. During his 16 years as Mayor:
● the Town’s first park was constructed on Wilgrove-Mint Hill Road;
● upon the Town being gifted five acres of land to be used for government purposes(along with the purchase of ten adjoining acres), the first Town Hall and Public WorksFacility were built in 1983 at 7151 Matthews-Mint Hill Road, now home to the police department;
$450M still unspent after two years of Hillsboroughâs transportation tax
Local agencies are waiting for a Florida Supreme Court decision before using any of the proceeds.
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Two receipts show the current Hillsborough County sales tax, which includes a 1 percent transportation levy that went into effect Jan. 1, 2019. None of the money has been spent.
Updated Jan. 14
TAMPA â Another week has passed without a ruling from the Florida Supreme Court on Hillsboroughâs transportation tax.
Itâs been two years since the one-cent sales tax went into effect, and nearly a year since the stateâs highest court heard oral arguments on whether to keep it in place.
State Quotas for Housing Meet Resistance in Southern California
Cities throughout Orange County, California, are appealing state-mandated quotas to build more high-density and affordable housing. Some local officials say the quotas are too high and have been shifted unfairly from nearby counties.
Irvine, Newport Beach, Yorba Linda, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, and Mission Viejo are among the cities that have launched appeals with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which are scheduled to be heard through Jan. 22.
At the group’s Jan. 7 meeting, Kome Ajise, the executive director of SCAG, said the organization had received 31 letters from 48 different jurisdictions contesting the state’s “regional determination” for affordable housing.
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