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A.G. GancarskiMay 25, 2017

The political career of Jacksonville City Council President-Designate Anna Brosche hasn’t been all that long, but has been characterized by a triumph per year. In 2015, Brosche shocked some observers by defeating the iconoclastic Kim Daniels in the pastor’s re-election bid to the City Council. In 2016, Brosche – a CPA and a managing partner at […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2017

Stakes were high in the Jacksonville City Council Leadership Elections, and no one besides the candidates bet as big as Bill Gulliford. When pledging support for the runner-up in Tuesday’s vote for Council President months back, Gulliford said that he wouldn’t accept a standing committee assignment in an Anna Brosche administration. Gulliford walked that back Wednesday in an email […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2017

The Jacksonville City Council Officer Elections have wrapped, and now comes the inevitable post-game analysis…. ____ PROLOGUE A year ago, the Jacksonville City Council – like Jacksonville itself – was in a different place. Pension reform was a concept, ethereal on some distant horizon. And you couldn’t go a week without a thinkpiece on the […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2017

On Tuesday, the Jacksonville City Council elected its new President and new Vice-President. For those seeking “Chamber friendly” officials, the vote couldn’t have gone better. Elected President: Anna Brosche. Elected Vice-President: Aaron Bowman. There are those who say the Jax Chamber and former Mayor John Peyton swayed the outcome of the vote. If that was their intention, they […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2017

With Jacksonville City Council members preparing to vote Tuesday on their next President, the outcome is starting to look clearer hours from the 3 p.m. vote to decide who will assume the lead in Council starting July. Right now, Finance Committee Chair Anna Brosche leads current VP John Crescimbeni 9-7 in the pledge count. Three councilors, meanwhile, remain officially undecided. […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 22, 2017

On the eve of a vote for the next Jacksonville City Council President, a reliable source notes that three councilors — including one candidate for President — had breakfast together Saturday at a Metro Diner location. Councilwoman Anna Brosche and Councilmen Matt Schellenberg and Doyle Carter (two committed Brosche backers) were among the participants in a group breakfast, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 17, 2017

On Tuesday, Jacksonville City Councilman Matt Schellenberg laid out some grievances about the “meek and mild” Duval County Legislative Delegation in the Florida Times-Union. “The most alarming and damaging issue is the additional Homestead Exemption. If passed by the citizens of Florida in the August 2018 election cycle, it would chop off about $27 million annually from […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 21, 2017

February ended with Jacksonville City Council VP John Crescimbeni storming out of the gate in the race for the council presidency. A bipartisan group of councilmen — Bill Gulliford, Greg Anderson, Jim Love, Scott Wilson and Tommy Hazouri — signed on very quickly, giving Crescimbeni, a Democrat, a real leg up. Rhetoric was pitched in the councilmen’s conclave: lots of talk […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 29, 2017

The future of CRAs, or Community Redevelopment Agencies, is in flux on the state level, with CS/HB 13 and SB 1770 both proposing substantial alterations to the process. Meanwhile, on the local level, a robust debate has occurred related to whether or not the JIA CRA should be phased out. District 7 Councilman Reggie Gaffney, as reported in […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 27, 2017

Amidst a series of private appointments on the calendar of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry was a meeting with Anna Brosche, the chair of the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee. The timing of the meeting was purposeful, Brosche said. “I believe it’s going to be introduced tomorrow,” Brosche said, regarding a raft of legislation that may be introduced […]

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Anna Brosche discusses how she won the Jacksonville City Council Presidency

Jax Councilman Bill Gulliford mulls ‘year in exile’, ‘lesser committees’

Winners and losers emerging from the 2017 Jax Council leadership elections

Anna Brosche wins Jacksonville City Council President’s race; Aaron Bowman takes VP

Danny Becton pledges to Anna Brosche as she closes in on Jax Council presidency

Unnoticed meeting of Jax Councilors, including Presidential candidate, draws notice

Anna Brosche is ‘concerned’ about potential homestead exemption impacts to Jacksonville budget

Why the next Jacksonville City Council President is still undetermined

Jacksonville councilors fight proposed JIA CRA sunset

Ahead of legislation, Lenny Curry talks pension with Anna Brosche