Editing Portal:Current events/2007 September

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*[[September 19]] - The [[Pensacola City Council]] votes 9-1 to provide $300,000 in additional funding to the troubled [[ECAT]] transit system.
*[[September 18]] - [[Escambia County Commission]]ers vote 3-2 to deny former [[County Administrator]] [[George Touart]]'s request to amend his contract, which would have allowed him to retire and earn a pension. At the same meeting, they also voted to provide $2.4 million to the [[ECAT]] bus system, following an agreement of cuts by [[Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1395]], and denied a $210,000 list of concessions requested by the [[Pensacola Ice Pilots]].
*[[September 18]] - [[Leonard Allen Schenk]] pleads guilty to 21 counts of stealing military equipment from [[Hurlburt Field]] and selling it on eBay.
*[[September 16]] - Assistant [[U.S. District Court]] Attorney [[Roy Atchison]] is arrested in an Internet sex sting operation after traveling to Detroit, allegedly to have sex with what he believed was a 5-year-old girl.
*[[September 14]] - Two piers on the eastbound section of the old [[I-10]] bridge over [[Escambia Bay]], damaged in [[Hurricane Ivan]], are demolished by a blasting crew.
*[[September 13]] - [[Reginald Holmes]] dies of unknown causes at the [[Escambia County Jail]].
*[[September 10]] - The [[Pensacola City Council]]'s Committee of the Whole approves an additional $6 million in funding to renovate the [[Saenger Theatre]].
*[[September 6]] - [[Escambia County Administrator]] [[George Touart]] announces his retirement following increasing criticism of his personal dealings with entities that do business with [[Escambia County]].
*[[September 6]] - The Florida Supreme Court strikes down [[Escambia County]] plans to create a tax-increment financing (TIF) district to fund $135 million in bonds for road improvements in [[Perdido Key]]. The ruling may impact projects funded by the [[Community Redevelopment Agency]], another TIF district.
*[[September 5]] - One of the [[beach ball water tower]]s on [[Pensacola Beach]] is disassembled.
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