.....As discussed at our last meeting and also at our joint meeting with the SRIA--this Thursday we will start the discussion on formulating a uniform practice/policy for renewing leases at Pensacola Beach.
As we all saw and heard from property appraiser Chris Jones's presentation last month--there are a lot of inequities between residents in terms of who pays taxes, who doesn't, and who has market-rate lease fees and who doesn't.
There are lots of problems with the way the leases have been written-lots of inconsistency where taxpayers were treated very poorly---including the disastrously bad renewal recently of a huge condo complex where the lease fees--- for these posh $750,000K-$1.5Million Dollar Gulf-front condos--will be a mere $185 dollars a year on the land portion of the tax bill!
This was a great deal for owners of that condo complex--but a horrible deal for the true owners of all the land--Escambia County Taxpayers. Too late to fix that one.....
So to prevent deals like that from ever happening again to Escambia County Taxpayers--I asked our attorney to draft some potential guidelines topics of discussion for the board related to lease renewals going forward that the BCC could codify into a policy that would standardize the lease renewals.
This will all be discussed this Thursday at the committee of the whole. See the very intelligent initial ideas in the six slides below:
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