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A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

On Monday, Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche gave her thoughts on the new City of Jacksonville proposed budget from Mayor Lenny Curry. The $1.27B budget — up almost $80M from previous years — will see 100 new police officers and 42 new firefighters as part of an add of 175 jobs. As well, Curry intends to […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

On Monday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry released his first budget since pension reform passed: a $1.27B budget, up from the $1.2B budget the previous year. With budget relief available after pension reform, Curry made the decision to invest in long neglected city infrastructure and employees, spending more than in the previous two years and adding […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

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On Monday, the cycle begins anew for the relationship between Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and the City Council. Curry drops his third budget — and this time, there is more room to maneuver than there had been the previous two years, in which pension obligations choked out most of the room for discretionary spending. The hit […]

Phil AmmannJuly 14, 2017

As the Jacksonville City Council wraps up its two-week break, Councilmembers will get a first peek at Mayor Lenny Curry’s budget Monday. They already know at least some of what to expect: a $100 million capital improvement budget and $8.4 million for Edward Waters College. Now the question is: Will everyone play ball? A.G. Gancarski […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 12, 2017

As those in the political game are acutely aware, fundraising is the oxygen that sustains campaigns. June for Northeast Florida legislators and committees was no exception — virtually everyone in the region did some fundraising, and all of that was in a certain context — one that makes it possible to ascertain the success or […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 11, 2017

The history of soccer in Jacksonville is longer than some new arrivals might think. From 1980, when the Jacksonville Tea Men started off in the North American Soccer League, to today, when the Jacksonville Armada play locally, soccer has had a foothold here for decades. Even in 2016, the U.S. National Team played in Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 10, 2017

While May was the month for the Jacksonville donor class to pony up for Paul Renner ahead of his win of the 2022 Speaker slot, June saw a return of a familiar pattern. That pattern: big-dollar donations to the political committee of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. All told, June saw $110,000 in new money, much of it from […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 30, 2017

For Paul Renner, the path to winning Friday’s 2022 Florida House Speaker election in Orlando — with 16 votes in the first round — was not a sure thing. First of all, he lost his first election for the House — a three-vote defeat to Rep. Jay Fant, a current Attorney General candidate, in House District […]

Phil AmmannJune 30, 2017

Summer doldrums, finally, in Jacksonville City Hall for the next couple of weeks … until the Mayor introduces his budget to Council July 17. The installation of a new Council President, supplanting old power dynamics with a new hierarchy. And there are questions. Will institutional knowledge still be there? Will the budget go as smoothly […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 30, 2017

The question as of Friday morning in Jacksonville: will “stronger together” work better for the new City Council President than for Hillary Clinton? Anna Brosche was elected Jacksonville City Council President weeks back. On Thursday night she assumed the role officially. The installation ceremony sprawled out over two hours, and included a selection from an […]

Tag: Lenny Curry

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