Mayor DC Reeves Postpones Fricker Center Meeting After Backlash from black residents
Pansacola mayor postponed a second meeting of the community in re-evaluating the public center – the day before the city was encountered anger from black residents over the city.
A new planned meeting at Fricker Center will be 8 am Aug. 13, instead of 6:30 PM on July 31 as was scheduled at the beginning.
Reeves said the purpose of submitting the meeting was to ensure the meeting was about the answer to the public center and not the other stories, that they could be considered at the City Hall to handle the evening in Will. The place is not yet.
“This is the reorganization of the event,” Reves said. “It’s not cancellation of the event. We give you days, and people certainly can go there, or they can go to the city hall and share those problems.”
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Penacola has $ 9,5 million in State Examples to support the renewal of the informalum establishment and hold a community meeting on July 23 for the reply of institutional renewal. Much of the meeting was governed by the concerns of the public, non-Mayor’s absence, and several critics who expressed distrust, and several categories that expressed the distrust of the city’s preparation for the Center.
“I never saw the city of Pensacola dropping $ 9 million in a black community,” said Senmacola Residence Jeramaine Williama on July 23 meeting.
Peracola residents who have only identified the blacks as the blacks fall at about 30% of the city in 2000 to 21%, according to the most recent population.
“Anyone who cares about anything that concerned about the city, is important to allow the opportunity,” Reves said. “But I think of this particular case, there were things that would be appropriate as a Cholter of the City Hall and Great Changing in the community, and worry about the changing community and what if they can’t cause that.”
Reeves also threw them in the opinion that there was a back motive after restoration.
“I don’t take it in person when someone says it is difficult to believe that the City will only get in and add $ 9,5 million and no other illegal eliminates,” Reveves said. “We do not have another incentive in another but wants to take a background – in the same way we did with the Cobb Center, so it wouldn’t have to be $ 1.7 million, we want this to stay.”
Reeves said if the public would not want $ 9,5 million to be used at their center for repairs, then he would “listen to that.”
“The public is not all, none of them or two,” the Reves is added.
Reeves also pointed to the benefits of the renewed community center, to improve middle classes, playgrounds, playgrounds, kitchen, health facility for health care.
“There can be no better description of the actual community center than discussed now,” Reves said.
Reeves said he would set his record of public participation at public meetings and city halls in the area of any previous Penacola mayor previous.
“About three years I have been here, I think we’re more than 100 throughout the project,” said Reeves.
In terms of the morning, Reeves said most public installation meetings occur in different times, so people with various schedules working. He said the FRICK Center meetings took place on Sunday without a stranger compared to many public meetings compared to many public meetings.
“We thought we had the security of the Florida (Department of Department) to do Aug. 1, but some of the issues we want in the building now,” said Reeves. “Therefore we were able to chase this, two within eight days.”
This article appeared at the beginning of Pansacola News Journal: Mayor IDC Reeves Postpones Fricker Center after Backlash meeting
