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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 26, 2017

Jacksonville television viewers spent Friday evening watching footage of Jacksonville City Councilmenbers accusing local cops of racial profiling. On Tuesday evening, those Councilors — Reggie Gaffney, who was pulled over for driving with a tag he’d reported stolen; and Katrina Brown, driving behind Gaffney, who accused the officers of racially-profiling her Council colleague — will be two of 19 […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2017

Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche missed Monday’s special Council meeting because she was in London for the annual Jax Chamber trip for the Jaguars’ game. One Council colleague — former Mayor Tommy Hazouri — believes she should have been at Council, especially given the import of the matters discussed at the meeting. “Interesting that the Mayor […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2017

Monday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting saw local officials address the body regarding Hurricane Irma. Expect a big budgetary hit from this year’s storm, with infrastructural damage that is still being tallied. That cost was buried in the mix of a few speakers on Monday, but will be the long-range policy impact of the storm. The city’s […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2017

Though it’s still early in the fundraising race for 2019 Jacksonville candidates, City Council hopeful Matt Carlucci continued setting the pace in August. Carlucci brought in $28,051 in new money last month, spending $4,489; all told, the former Councilman and State Ethics Commission chair has roughly $125,000 on hand. The Republican candidate will need that and […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2017

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 […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017

Tuesday afternoon saw what likely will be one of the last briefings on Jacksonville City Council members on Hurricane Irma. And it was a doozy — complete with recriminations and frustrations over another round of slow power restoration from JEA. Recovery is underway, with JEA crews having resolved roughly 20,000 outages during daylight hours Tuesday, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 25, 2017

The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee put Sheriff Mike Williams through the wringer during this year’s budget process. They pushed back against budget asks two weeks ago, compelling the Sheriff to return Friday morning, where he spent roughly an hour answering questions related to a poll his political committee ran. Among the items in suspension: 100 […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 25, 2017

Friday saw the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee move toward wrapping up budget deliberations. However, there was still some unfinished business with various departments. And the most interesting bit of business was political business — not budgetary. — The big enchilada: the 100 new police officers and other proposals from JSO, which were not approved […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 24, 2017

On Valentine’s Day, the Jacksonville City Council voted to expand the city’s Human Rights Ordinance to include LGBT people. On Thursday, a group of local Christian conservatives, backed by the Liberty Counsel, united under the banner of Empower Jacksonville to challenge that law — and all laws that citizens deem to be “unjust.” Empower Jacksonville seeks […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 24, 2017

Thursday morning’s Jacksonville City Council budget review included a deep dive into improving workforce diversity in city employment. Council members discussed ways to fulfill the letter of the equal opportunity/equal access law, relative to ensuring that Jacksonville’s labor force reflects the city’s demographics. “It’s about priorities. Whatever the Mayor wants to do in that fashion, […]

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