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| Gov. Ron DeSantis signed important Economic Development legislation into law this past Thursday. A HUGE win for our economic development efforts locally--HUGE! |
This past week, on Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed local legislation (HB 1067) into law. This legislation was passed by both houses this past session and refers to our area's Economic Development board, The Pensacola Escambia Promotion and Development Commission.
Although in the scheme of things this past session-- this particular bill flew under the radar of most citizens because it is not an issue that most folks follow.
(See a summary of the bill's history here, see the final bill with strikethroughs and additions here)
Nevertheless this was a very important piece of legislation. Florida West, The PEDC board, the Pensacola City Council, and the Escambia County Commission all voted this language forward.
Congratulations to Sen. Broxson and Rep. Andrade for their support of this bill---and a special thanks goes out to Rep. Andrade for carrying this bill and running it for us last session in Tallahassee.
Essentially, this bill cleaned up some obsolete language that was in the existing legislation.
The re-write also provided for membership on the commission by citizens that have significant financial, real estate, or business interests inside of Escambia County. (The previous language mandated that members of the PEDC had to be registered voters of Escambia County--essentially boxing-out anyone from service who might have tremendous investments in Escambia County while choosing to reside over the bridge in Gulf Breeze.
This legislation fixed that problematic issue.
And it was met with vitriolic, sustained opposition by one of my counterparts on the BCC and by a couple of dozen other folks on some certain Facebook chat sites.
I'm told by sources close to the issue that this one member of the BCC actually called the Governor's office in the eleventh hour, after the legislation had passed both the house and senate, to urge the Governor to VETO this good and beneficial bill. I'm told the message given the governor by this one naysayer was something along the lines of "Most residents of Escambia County don't support this bill!"
Thankfully, the Governor did exactly the right thing: He brushed off this one critic's pleas, and signed the bill this past Thursday.
A huge win for economic development locally, a HUGE win!
10 comments:
Commissioner Underhill checklist:
--Cheerlead for OLF8 and "good jobs" creation on that site during the last BOCC meeting? Check.
--Complete failure, through a myriad of public and backdoor attempts, to smear the PDEC and FloridaWest and the people who sit it, day in and day out, for months on end? Check.
--Self-exposure on the misdirection of EMS reform, by throwing away documentation on the dais without looking at it and then insisting there was no problem with the statement "we need to show a delay and a need for more trucks?" Check.
With all that now accomplished, who knows what he'll do to keep on with all the winning.
Best bets:
--Resuscitate the bridge list "controversy"
--Go back after the vacation rental industry
--Start studying the roundabout documents again "on a nearly grotesque level"
--Keep shooting himself in the foot with the DOT and blaming his infrastructure failures on Gene Valentino.
That's just off the top of my head, though. No doubt he has other things in mind.
Melissa Pino
413 SE Baublits Drive
That one nay sayer was on a radio show in PCB talking about GOBs, the host was impressed and said that was the best county commissioners he had ever heard. So people still drink his kool aid. May be he will move.
Underhill is a liar. DeSantis has already heard of him.
What is "GOBs"?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
That one nay sayer was on a radio show in PCB talking about GOBs, the host was impressed and said that was the best county commissioners he had ever heard. So people still drink his kool aid. May be he will move.
May 27, 2019 at 10:23 PM
Look who started this--and who finished it.
GOB is Good Ole Boys. One commissioner's playbook is that he is fighting all the corruption then he turns around and is a total hypocrite, people fall for it, it's ridiculous when you look beyond the curtain. Political rhetoric.
See the one who metaphorically stomps her feet and huffs about Bergosh and how he wrote this on Memorial Day while she herself is writing things for her hero on Memorial Day.
#Mancrush
Like anybody listens to her after her unending support for Jethro.
"BWHAA ha cry cry sniffle snort"--"ole poopie face"
Successful five generation business men and other professionals backing mensa level public servant (sarcasm --eye roll)
Commissioner Bergosh, we appreciate your creativity and thoughtfulness, looking for out of the box solutions and not bending to assinine political mob mentality.
We have see the weird Facebook comments against you. No one that moves here then infect the area with over a dozen offspring can betaken seriously.
Wow! what a fail on his part making a call, being passed to the 22 year old aid to the governor, no call back, and finally, the slam dunk for the PEDC change. Oops, the cult of personality of #2 commish doesn't play well in Tally. Well, can you blame them? He won his seat by an amazing (amazingly close, that is) 212 votes, not very impressive.
Copy this link and listen..actually Jeff Bergosh, you are real..you like music, raise a great family, over come the PNJ...OLF 8 is fine and well..
Dire Straits
You and your friend. we hope you are the next D1 commissioner and then superintendent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILRCfeITBns
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