A.G. Gancarski
On Monday, the Jacksonville City Council’s Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health & Safety committee deferred a bill expressing opposition to selling the local utility, a hot button issue in recent months.
2018-248, a resolution introduced by Councilors Jim Love, Joyce Morgan and Reggie Gaffney, would put the kibosh on moves to potentially sell JEA.
This discussion comes at a time when moves to sell or privatize all or part of the utility find a phalanx of detractors and no public advocates in the present tense.
Though official positions of both JEA Interim CEO Aaron Zahn and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry boil down to advocating a pause of some indeterminate length in a discussion of privatization of the utility, many observers of the process do not take those assertions at face value.
The deferral motion from Councilman Love seemed to catch co-sponsor Morgan and Councilman Garrett Dennis by surprise.
Love assured the committee that the bill would be back up for consideration in two weeks.
One comment
Frankie M.
April 24, 2018 at 11:18 am
This feels like a bad 3rd grade play.
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