CITY COUNCIL GETS BUDGET PLANNER

The Pensacola News Journal is reporting the Pensacola City Council has selected a person to be the Council’s Strategic Budget Planner. In a 6-1 vote Thursday, the City Council named Wilhelm “Butch” Hansen as the council’s budget planner. He is a retired Navy captain and the president of the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation. He will work on a part-time basis at $40 an hour for up to $52,000 a year. His job will be to advise and assist the City Council on the city’s budget, independent from the office of the mayor. Councilman Larry B. Johnson voted against the selection.