BUSINESS BRIEFS
Ford honored by Pensacola Chamber

McCullough

On August 27, District 3 State Representative Clay Ford of Gulf Breeze was honored at a Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce board meeting. He received a plaque commemorating his place on the 2007 Florida Chamber of Commerce Honor Roll.

The Chamber honors State Representatives whose voting records support a pro-business agenda each year.

Representative Ford received an "A" grade in his first legislative session.

Dominitz accepts position in Georgia

Local journalist Nathan Dominitz accepted a sports reporter position with the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News after residing for nearly 18 years in the Pensacola area, including nine years in Navarre.

Dominitz previously worked as a free lance writer for Gulf Breeze News and taught English at Navarre High School for the past two years after more than 15 years with the Pensacola News Journal as a sports writer and assistant sports editor. His more than two decades in professional journalism also include stops in Fort Pierce, Fla., and his home county of Montgomery County, Md. A state and national award-winning reporter, he has been a contributor to The Washington Post, the Gulf Breeze News, USA Today, the New York Daily News, The Associated Press, Gannett News Service and other newspapers and magazines.

Gulf Power names new vice president

The Gulf Power Company board of directors named Ted McCullough, Jr. the new vice president of Power Generation. In this role, McCullough is responsible for oversight of Gulf Power's three generating plants - Plant Crist in Escambia County, Plant Smith in Bay County and Plant Scholz in Jackson County.

McCullough, whose most recent position was plant manager at Georgia Power's Plant Branch, has more than 20 years of experience in Southern Company power generation. He has held management positions in five different generating facilities and also has worked in Fuel Services, System Planning and Business Development.

He is a registered professional engineer with degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree in business administration from Auburn University.

Zoning changes fee

The fee structure for Santa Rosa County planning and zoning services changed Sept. 1.

The revision will more directly place the cost of development on the developers and will not affect the average residential customer. The resolution adopting the new fee structure was approved by the board of county commissioners on July 26.

The current fee structure set by resolution in 1986 and not revised since 1998, did not reflect the typical staff hours necessary for the planning and zoning process. Staff analyzed the 2006 workload and calculated the proposed new fees based on the average staff time needed per task.

For more information, call Planning and Zoning at 850-981- 7075.