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A.G. GancarskiNovember 10, 2015

At the end of the Jacksonville City Council meeting on Tuesday night, Councilman Bill Gulliford pressed for executive branch cooperation on getting PFPF reform, which would start with getting a new director in place and putting the controversial tenure of former director and current consultant John Keane into the history books and out of the present tense. […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 4, 2015

Not every Jacksonville City Council member could make it to Monday’s public notice meeting where Councilman Bill Gulliford faced down the Police and Fire Pension Fund Board of Trustees Chairman Larry Schmitt. With that in mind, the PFPF (courtesy of hourly consultant John Keane) sent an email to the previous City Council group email list […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 2, 2015

On Monday, Jacksonville Councilman Bill Gulliford convened a fractious public notice meeting related to the Police and Fire Pension Fund involving the Board of Trustees, the Concerned Taxpayers of Duval County, and (by phone) PFPF trustee Bill Scheu, as part of a “cast of thousands” in attendance. Larry Schmitt, chair of the pension fund, noted irregularities, such as the […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 29, 2015

The term “forensic audit” is appropriate given the long-awaited deep dive into the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund, as more than a few people would like to bury the whole thing. Appropriately released in Halloween week, it is a frightful compendium of the ghosts of a bad deal made decades ago, combined with a […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 28, 2015

[Updated 3:10 PM with Lenny Curry comments] In a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee Chair Bill Gulliford put the perpetually embattled Police and Fire Pension Fund on blast, in the wake of the long-awaited results of the forensic audit. Adding to the intrigue: former PFPF director John Keane had not seen the […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 8, 2015

The first Jacksonville City Council meeting of September offers something for everyone. Those who show up on time can expect Councilman Tommy Hazouri to deliver a proclamation honoring “the working men and women of Jacksonville” for their contributions to the civic good. Still waiting on the proclamation honoring those who are work-averse. Those tuned in […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 5, 2015

Jacksonville City Councilman John Crescimbeni is singular in his tenacity on a given issue. One such issue: the Police and Fire Pension Fund’s Senior Staff Voluntary Retirement Plan. Recently, Crescimbeni asked Treasurer Patrick Greive some questions about primary beneficiaries that perhaps get to the root of his PFPF pique. When PFPF head John Keane retires next Friday, he […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2015

During Monday’s meeting of the Finance Committee of the Jacksonville City Council, a discussion point was the so-called forensic audit of the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund. Councilmen Crescimbeni and Matt Schellenberg raised concerns about the record keeping over at PFPF. Council Auditor Kirk Sherman mentioned that no one anticipated, including the independent investigator, the burdens […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2015

An interesting divergence of memory has surfaced between Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund Chair John Keane and a local newspaper editor. FloridaPolitics.com is at the center of this maelstrom. On Friday, we had an exclusive interview with a very emotional Keane, who charged the local Paper of Record with misrepresenting him and the Pension, helmed by […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 2015

When it comes to the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension, nothing is easy. Not even a 4-1 vote by the Police and Fire Pension Board to approve 2015-304, the agreement passed by Jacksonville’s City Council by a 14-4 margin at last week’s meeting. A lot of passions were stirred; passions about making sure the first […]

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