Gulf Breeze, United States (Local)
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Pam Brannon's coverage largely focuses on local government and education in the United States, specifically within Florida and Gulf Breeze. Given her focus on government announcements and press releases, she is likely to be responsive to pitches related to local government initiatives, educational developments, community events, and infrastructure projects within this specific geographic area.
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Will all Santa Rosa County public school students be required to use student ID cards beginning next school year? That is an issue the school board postponed deciding until its next school board meeting on Thursday, May 7. The superintendent of schools said she had hoped the board would approve moving ahead with school policy at last week’s board meeting […]
Santa Rosa County voters will be deciding this November whether to renew the county’s half-cent sales tax for another five years. Commissioners reviewed the proposed ballot language at their committee of the whole planning meeting Tuesday, April 21. They approved moving it for final decision at today’s meeting, Thursday, April 23. The language reads: “CONTINUATION OF HALF-CENT SURTAX FOR ROADS, […]
Elizabeth Baskerville Major attended the Santa Rosa County Commission meetings every time they were held for many years until her death last year at age 87. Commissioners not only set aside some time in their agenda a year later for a tribute to her with kind words, but also had a special bronze plate made with her name on it […]
Santa Rosa County public school teachers are getting a raise. The school board voted three to two in a special meeting and quasi judicial hearing last Thursday to grant the recurring raise after the Santa Rosa Professional Educators (SRPE) Teachers union and the district negotiators declared an IMPASSE. Negotiations began on September 17, with the final session held on March […]
The county’s Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) committee met Tuesday, April 28, to review not only the ballot language for the proposed sales tax renewal on November’s ballot but how the past 10 years of sales tax was used. Sabrina White, county financial director, said that the program for the last five years was expected to bring $83,297,732 in sales […]
The low bidder for improvements to the Oriole Beach Boat Ramp was reviewed by Santa Rosa County Commissioners at the Tuesday, May 5, planning meeting. Panhandle Grading and Paving, Inc. had the lowest bid, with final approval being placed on the consent agenda for today’s meeting (Thursday, May 7). Out of 14 bidders, the company was the lowest bidder with […]
Assistant Superintendent Joey Harrell told the school board last Thursday night that they need to look over some proposed language to send the county commissioners on renewal of a half-cent sales tax the school uses for capital projects. Superintendent Dr. Karen Barber said, “Our half-cent sales tax that we use for capital projects expires in 2028. We need to get […]
By: Pam Brannon
More than 10 years ago, Dr. Karen Barber started a program to help the homeless students in the Santa Rosa County School District. Barber was not superintendent of schools at that time, but started an office called the Director of Federal Programs. The current director for the school district, Dana Fleming, gave school board members an update last Thursday evening […]
Students will not be wearing ID badges in Santa Rosa County schools this coming school year. Four of the five school board members went against the administration’s recommendation at Thursday’s school board meeting, defeating the proposal to use badges for all students from pre-K to 12th grade in the district’s 38 schools. The administration gave a lengthy presentation to board […]
Colten Wright of Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County Commissioner Chair, asked for some honest answers at last Thursday’s county meeting about a couple of his fellow commissioners giving up the chair seat at the most recent Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meeting. The TPO is Northwest Florida’s Transportation Planning Organization and Wright was in Washington D.C. working on Highway 98 issues […]
