Jacksonville City Council reboots schedule in wake of Irma

Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting was postponed in the wake of Irma; it has been rescheduled for Monday afternoon.

That’s the big takeaway from a memo from Council President Anna Brosche, who also had to reshuffle committee meetings to later in the week to accommodate the change.

Here are the rescheduled dates, per the memo from Brosche.

The City Council meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 12^th at 5:00 pm will now take place on Monday, September 18^th at 5:00 PM, Brosche writes.

No changes will apply to Land Use and Zoning; other committees, though, will be pushed back 48 hours each.

The Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety and Transportation, Energy and Utilities  Committee meetings originally scheduled for Monday are pushed back to Wednesday.

Finance and Rules, originally slated for Tuesday, will move to Thursday.

All four of those committees will meet at their normal times on the new days.

“The above changes will get us back on track for the City Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 26^th, at which we will pass the 2017/2018 budget in time for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2017,” Brosche writes.

The budget presented a particular challenge in rescheduling, with its own specific notice requirements.

Brosche had “to evaluate all implications of cancelling/rescheduling yesterday’s City Council meeting, including the legal and practical considerations of a legislative process having so many stakeholders, impacts on other meetings, and public hearings for advertisement.”

With a Council meeting Monday night leading into committee work before the budget vote next Tuesday, expect a unique set of pressures for the Council for the rest of the month.