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Monday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Pensacola inches closer to creating electric utility
Pensacola may be close to taking its first real step toward creating a municipal electric utility as anger over Florida Power & Light’s rate increase boiled over at the City Council’s workshop Wednesday. City Council members appeared open to the idea of commissioning a feasibility study into the idea during the nearly four-hour workshop to discuss the idea.
› What it takes to get a train station in your South Florida city
When Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer took his first Brightline train trip to Miami, he was instantly sold on the idea that his city had to go along for ride. A Brightline station was a must for his downtown, where no passenger train had stopped for more than 50 years. “When Brightline was set up we wondered from the beginning why they weren’t thinking of Boca Raton as a separate center of commerce and tourism, because it is,” he said in an interview. So he called Brightline, and called and called: monthly, weekly and then daily, said Brightline President Patrick Goddard.
› Despite tension over other issues, added Sarasota school tax has been area of agreement
In the coming weeks, voters in Sarasota County will decide whether the Sarasota County School District should keep getting additional tax dollars. Voters will head to the polls on March 8 to decide whether to renew a one-mill property tax projected to generate $71.6 million this year, while costing the average homeowner roughly $305 annually, according to data from the School District budget.
› Metro Storage takes another step in Riverside
The city Planning and Development Department is reviewing an application for the closed Metro Entertainment Complex in Riverside to become the Metro Self Storage project. Jacksonville-based Ash Properties submitted the application for preliminary site development plan approval. The department said Jan. 26 civil plans are in review.
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