You can not make this silly stuff up.

Thanks Mr Studer for all you do for Pensacola.

The board that governs the Community Maritime Park, which is facing a half-million dollar shortfall this year, got a temporary reprieve today on a $500,000 loan from the city's Community Redevelopment Agency that's due next month.

The Pensacola City Council -- meeting as the Community Redevelopment Agency this afternoon -- approved an eight-month extension in exchange for the Community Maritime Park Associates board presenting a concrete plan on how it will handle its finances in the future and ultimately pay back the loan, which was used to add dressing rooms, restrooms and storage in the back of the amphitheater. LOL They loan the money to some yahoos that dont know how they are going to pay for it?

To help come up with that plan, the city has hired former Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver as a temporary consultant. He will help craft a sustainable plan for the park going forward. His six-month contract calls for $5,000 per month payments.(Are they saying there is no sustainable plan for the Park? Damn it!! What have we been saying? This is insane.

The Community Maritime Park Associates board voted unanimously two weeks ago, at the request of its audit and operations committee, to ask the city's CRA to forgive the $500,000 loan due next month.

The CMPA has a projected budget totaling about $1 million this year with only $500,000 in expected revenue, most of which comes from lease fees and ticket surcharges the Blue Wahoos pay to use the stadium during baseball season.

And those figures don't account for the additional $500,000 loan repayment.

Council members quickly dismissed the possibility of forgiving the loan, opting instead to give the CMPA board a temporary extension.

Councilwoman Sherri Myers said the extension will help the council get "a more realistic picture" of the CMPA's finances and how long it will actually take to pay back the loan. Duh!!! Think that might be a little late?

Oliver said it would be premature to comment on the CMPA's finances or his ideas without having been acquainted better with the board's books.

I dont know crap about nothing except how to piss away money. I will be a perfect fit.

I will give you a job reference......but then again, I really did not care if people could use the backstage area of the amphitheater.....you know I am one dimensional.......Basssssebull has been very good to me..........you wanted a place for people to pee.....so now that they are peeing money.....you seem disturbed.......if you want the job.....you got to act like it doesn't matter. It might help if you knew somebody who was good with horses, or you had some friends who wanted to put a casino on Perdido.....but heck....I am sure you can match them dollar for dollar.

hallmarkgrad wrote:So they have to hire the guy that the country fired to tell them what to do? Of course Dandy Randy doesnt know what the hell is happening but for 30,000 he will look at it.( Oliver said it would be premature to comment on the CMPA's finances or his ideas without having been acquainted better with the board's books.) What in the hell are the people on the CMPA doing? I need a job. I dont know crap about nothing except how to piss away money. I will be a perfect fit.

A real man with such strong objections would do more than post his opinion to 12 people on a forum who couldn't care less.

Do something about it or get over it.

Ghandi wrote:

hallmarkgrad wrote:So they have to hire the guy that the country fired to tell them what to do? Of course Dandy Randy doesnt know what the hell is happening but for 30,000 he will look at it.( Oliver said it would be premature to comment on the CMPA's finances or his ideas without having been acquainted better with the board's books.) What in the hell are the people on the CMPA doing? I need a job. I dont know crap about nothing except how to piss away money. I will be a perfect fit.

A real man with such strong objections would do more than post his opinion to 12 people on a forum who couldn't care less.

Do something about it or get over it.

LOL You cared enough to post a reply............

hallmarkgrad wrote:So I guess you dont see a problem at all? Play Ball. I may not be much but I did not have a hand in defaulting on a 500,000 loan to the city. So what's the net gain for the Park this year?

Too late now. The park is built. Did you voice your concerns at any meetings?

hallmarkgrad wrote:So I guess you dont see a problem at all? Play Ball. I may not be much but I did not have a hand in defaulting on a 500,000 loan to the city. So what's the net gain for the Park this year?

You sound like a little girl who lost her barbi doll.

Now Ya talking!!! Big ass digital Billboards for the Park. LOL But it is ok Collier says he is hopeful.............

Collier Merrill, chairman of the CMPA board, said he is hopeful the park will eventually pay for itself.

There are several outstanding opportunities that will generate thousands of dollars for the CMPA each year, though city and park officials have recognized the daunting financial challenges facing the project.

Naming rights for the stadium, for example, could net the CMPA “hundreds of thousands of dollars” each year, Merrill said.

The CMPA is also in discussions with Lamar Advertising Co. to construct two digital billboards on the east and west corners of the park facing Main Street.

I'll continue to occasionally walk around the thing for my morning walks.
I figure that some day soon I'll be calculating how much each of those walks will end up costing me as a city taxpayer who will eventually pick up the tab for this thing. So I guess I better start walking down there every day to get the eventual cost-per-walk down. Right now I'm walking down there so infrequently that each walk will probably end up costing me hundreds of dollars in terms of the increased property taxes required to bail this thing out.

But I want all those conservatives and republicans and tea parties to stop and think about this.
The conservatives and republicans and tea parties preach day in and day out how it's only the federal government who is evil and how everything is done better by the local governments.
Well now I hope you conservatives and tea parties and republicans are seeing the truth about how the local governments operate so you'll shut the hell up about how wonderful local government is. It aint no better or no different than the fucking feds. It has politicians who use other people's money to do stupid and risky shit no different than the feds.

Bob wrote:I'll continue to occasionally walk around the thing for my morning walks.
I figure that some day soon I'll be calculating how much each of those walks will end up costing me as a city taxpayer who will eventually pick up the tab for this thing. So I guess I better start walking down there every day to get the eventual cost-per-walk down. Right now I'm walking down there so infrequently that each walk will probably end up costing me hundreds of dollars in terms of the increased property taxes required to bail this thing out.

I will walk with you. That way it will make your cost per mile more palatable. Maybe a City resident ID card that will allow you to walk for free but us fureners and Mooslims would have to pay.

hallmarkgrad wrote:

I will walk with you. That way it will make your cost per mile more palatable. Maybe a City resident ID card that will allow you to walk for free but us fureners and Mooslims would have to pay.

I remember a month or so ago I went to walk down there and they had put up barricades on each side of it. The barricades were there because of some paid shindig. It really torqued me to see that the place I'm gonna end up owning (as a city taxpayer) was off limits to me. It's like if I buy a new car and Collier Merrill and Quint Studer put a barricade up in front of Sandy Sansing and then take possession of my car and not let me in it.

hallmarkgrad wrote:Ask not what Stooderville can do for you , ask what can you do for Stoodville.

Stupeville and the horses it rode in on can all bite my bippy. lol

Seaoat, it is best that you not say a single word on this topic.

You lobbied hard in favor of this park as being the holy grail to save the area that wouldn't cost the residents a dime. Come to find out, you were never a resident of the city nor were you even willing to cough up the money for season tickets. All of the benefits, none of the pain. You played poker with someone else's chips.

In the end, all the naysayers were correct and with added expenses like the $30K to pay yet another dethroned and resurrected former employee to sort out their mess, Pensacola's plastic surgery is bleeding and already becoming necrotic.

And now it sounds like this "lovely" landmark is going to be even more so with two glaring, blinding Lamar billboards out front. Betcha Bodacious Olive gets free advertising as part of Vol. 13 Ch. 6 pg.3 of the textbook How to be a Little Pensacola Oligarch.

Hiring Randy Oliver shortly after firing him is just another example of the the lack of leadership in the running of this city's business. Giving him $30,000 for consulting makes me feel nauseated.

I believe its called "Throwing good money after bad."

And this is the "local government" the hannitys and merkels and limbos and tea partys and conservatives say is so much better than that evil federal government.

From the PNJ
Waterfront Rescue Mission
The facility has moved to Herman Street, not Nine Mile. It is unfortunate to not be right on the water anymore, however our new location offers so much more space and opportunity for our clients to receive services and progress through the program.

I just watched the 2 hour CMPA video of the October 10 meeting. All will be well. BP money will save the day. Plans for a Water Taxi is interesting. No solution to the downtown restroom issues. Fishermen are starting to be a pain. Studer is still calling the shots.

I do not live in Pensacola city limits and I don't even particularly like baseball for that matter but my forum friends who are tearing into Randy Oliver because he was hired to try and untangle this mess are misguided. Yes he was dismissed by the BCC for extremely intangible and unexplained reasons, probably because he didn't cowtow to Robertson or Valentino who knows?. It was not because he was inept or incapable. I worked with him during his tenure on other political matters and he is a no nonsense aloof bean counter who is able to call balls and strikes with a striking indifference. War and fuzzy not at all . . . . a political hack . . . definitely not. He was perfectly capable of keeping the County's budget in check but it required the goring of too many of the other Commissioner's oxen. Attacking him is misguided frustration from those who feel the CMPA was a mistake from the git-go and are now venting those angry feelings and frustrations toward Randy Oliver who had absolutely nothing to do with the mess they find themselves in. He does have the credentials and is extremely intelligent and I would trust his experience and ability in lieu of bringing in someone in the local GOB loop. Would you have been happier with George Touart? I didn't think so . . . .

Fair words about Randy, Knothead. The point I was making was more in relation to the ineptness of the city and county, and how the gullible citizenry rolls over to the wished of a few.