Tag: Garrett Dennis

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 1, 2018
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Last year, outgoing JEA board member Tom Petway floated an audacious proposal: privatize Jacksonville’s public utility. Explorations of that concept apparently have proceeded to the point where Action News Jax reports there are worries of a “mass exodus” from the company. Moreover, an internal letter template suggests pending offers of “continued employment” during possible “acquisition or change of control,” […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 9, 2018
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2017 ended with bodies piling up in Jacksonville’s morgue. 2018 brings something approaching a solution via Ordinance 2018-005. A bill slated to be introduced at Tuesday’s City Council meeting on an emergency basis will offer what Medical Examiner Valerie Rao called last week a “proposed space solution,” which includes “office and refrigerator space”: a walk-in cooler […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 2, 2018
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2018 began for the Jacksonville City Council with some holdover business from 2017: a proposed lessening of residency distance requirements for sexual predators. The bill has been around since September, and is headed toward the graveyard of dead bills. Councilors spiked it by a 2-5 margin Tuesday in the Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2017
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6min364
The Jacksonville City Council approved six members of the Kids Hope Alliance board on Tuesday, including Joe Peppers. Peppers, in fact, was approved unanimously — but by no means does that mean his nomination process went smoothly, specifically with regard to one particular Councilman: Garrett Dennis. In fact, the process was characterized in an email by Jessica Laird — […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 12, 2017
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Six of the seven board members of Jacksonville’s nascent Kids Hope Alliance cleared City Council Tuesday evening. Five of them made the cut via the consent agenda: Rebekah Davis, a former member of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission board of directors; Kevin Gay, a previous Jacksonville Journey board member; former Jacksonville Sheriff and current Edward Waters College President Nat Glover; Iraq War […]


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