Jax Council leadership race continues Monday

Sam Newby gets a grant for a local business, then gives it his business.

Jacksonville City Council Vice President candidates Matt Schellenberg and Aaron Bowman continue to solicit support in Monday meetings with Council members.

Schellenberg, who has one signed on supporter as at this writing, seeks to court three supporters on Monday.

He has an 11:00 meeting with Anna Brosche, who told us last week that she wasn’t planning to commit until she’d met with every candidate.

From there, a 1:30 meeting is scheduled with Tommy Hazouri, who has already committed to support Bowman, so it’s hard to see that meeting actually happening.

And from there, Schellenberg meets with current VP Lori Boyer at 2:00 p.m.. Fun fact: the first signed on supporter to Boyer’s bid for the presidency: John Crescimbeni, the current frontrunner in terms of signatures.

It remains to be see if Schellenberg finishes Monday with any more signatures than he had at the start.

Aaron Bowman, meanwhile, meets with Reggie Gaffney at 2:45 p.m.. Bowman’s sole supporter thus far is Hazouri.

Schellenberg has two more meetings scheduled of this nature on Tuesday, though one is with Jim Love, who has signed on with Crescimbeni. The other is with Scott Wilson.