‘Yes for Jacksonville’ PC clears million-dollar threshold

A blockbuster first 24 days of June brought the “Yes for Jacksonville” political committee’s total raised to over a million dollars raised.

In total, June 1-24 brought in $476,700, of which less than $79,000 was spent.

All told, the committee has roughly $913,000 on hand to make a case for the “yes” vote on the Aug. 30 referendum, designed to authorize extension of Jacksonville’s half-cent infrastructure tax after 2030 and repurpose it to the pension liability.

As payments balloon beyond the mid-2030s, the expectation is the sales tax revenue will match those costs.

Among the leading June donors were:

• Fidelity Information Services: $100,000
• Jacksonville Kennel Club: $50,000
• Gate Petroleum, Haskell America Design-Build, CSX, Jacksonville Jetport, Cavco, J.R. Advertising: all gave $25,000.