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A.G. GancarskiJune 10, 2015

The big news that came out of Jacksonville’s City Council meeting on Tuesday night is the passage of 2015-304: the Police and Fire Pension Deal, by a 14-4 margin. Those against it (Lori Boyer, John Crescimbeni, Bill Bishop, and Matt Schellenberg) made their arguments. But the fact was that Councilman Bill Gulliford and his impassioned […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2015

With the Police and Fire Pension Fund deal subject to a vote in Tuesday evening’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, PFPF Chairman John Keane introduced revisions to its terms during a Tuesday morning meeting with Councilman Bill Gulliford, point man for the latest round of negotiations. Also attending were council members Lori Boyer and Greg Anderson, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 29, 2015

Back in the days when soap operas dominated the daytime television landscape, casual viewers knew that the Friday episode was the one to watch, in terms of climactic plot resolutions. If only that were true for Jacksonville’s Police and Fire Pension Fund negotiations. On Friday morning in a conference room at city hall, PFPF Chief […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 27, 2015

The Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Deal has been in negotiations for close to eight years now, but it seems that an end is close at hand, if Wednesday afternoon’s meeting between Councilmen Bill Gulliford, Stephen Joost, John Crescimbeni and Police and Fire Pension Chief John Keane is any indication. The men were the very definition of cordial as they […]

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