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A.G. GancarskiApril 11, 2016

Headed into Monday, Doyle Carter trailed John Crescimbeni in the pledge count in their Jacksonville City Council VP race 6 to 4. And Monday closed with the same tally. Carter held a half hour long meeting with District 7 Councilman Reggie Gaffney, whose pledge would have been seen as a bellwether for support from the nine Council members […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 4, 2016

Monday evening’s Community Conversation at WJCT brought together a panel of local experts on addressing health “needs and disparities.” For political watchers, however, there was a subtext: one of the panelists, Jacksonville City Council VP Lori Boyer, is poised to be President in a few months. And in that role, she will be Council’s “voice,” and […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 4, 2016

The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee resumed Monday after its “fifth week” break, considering contract disparity and pension fund issues, along with a surprisingly controversial bill on human trafficking signs that was deferred after some discussion. • A presentation on investment management expenses of pension funds, including the Police and Fire Pension Fund and the […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 4, 2016

The latest series of Community Conversations from the Lenny Curry administration wraps Monday evening. And Council Vice President Lori Boyer will be featured. “The series of Community Conversations addressing public safety concludes today as Mayor Lenny Curry hosts Our Health: Addressing Needs and Disparities in Communities,” asserts the release from the mayor’s office. Other panelists include Dr. […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2016

The race for Jacksonville City Council Vice President is moving, commitment by commitment, toward coalescing behind John Crescimbeni. A conservative, budget hawk Democrat closer to the Charlie Bennett tradition than any other politician in the local party, Crescimbeni has been on Council off and on (mostly on) since 1991. To get the vice presidency (usually, but not […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 22, 2016

In an attempt to put a “stronger focus on neighborhoods” and to impose “cost controls,” the Jacksonville City Council passed 17-0 comprehensive reorganization legislation Tuesday night that created a Neighborhoods Department. The legislation has been a priority of the Curry administration from before the inauguration, and would mitigate the effects of a reorganization in the previous […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2016

Monday saw Greg Anderson and Lori Boyer, president and vice president of the Jacksonville City Council respectively, again have convened to discuss communications tracking software options. Central to the Monday meeting was a product demonstration from Smarsh, a private vendor that archives communications already for Tallahassee and Panama City. Smarsh, over the phone, demonstrated how their software […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2016

Changes to the way the Jacksonville City Council handles its Banking Fund could be on the horizon. For those paying attention, this has been a long time coming. Back in June, before the Lenny Curry administration came in, there was disquiet in the Finance Committee about the Banking Fund, which had become a loosely-accounted slush fund for projects that […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 8, 2016

As the pundits debate whether Marco Rubio should get out of the Presidential race before the Florida Primary, the campaign released a block of Northeast Florida Republican leaders joining Congressman Ander Crenshaw and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and supporting the Senator, ahead of his rally in Nocatee Tuesday night that would seem to be a play to the […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2016

Jacksonville City Council President Greg Anderson and VP Lori Boyer met Wednesday to solve the nettling problem of archiving Council’s text messages. In what Anderson called “a world of increasingly different communication options,” in the context of keeping permanent records that comply with Sunshine Laws and avoid the embarrassing news stories regarding texting with lobbyists that dogged the […]

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Sen Rick Scott in Sarasota. Photo by Jacob Ogles.

Doyle Carter pitches Reggie Gaffney in Jax Council VP bid, but Gaffney doesn’t come through

Health disparities are focus of Jax Community Conversation

Jax Finance Committee talks pension fund, disparity study

Jax Council VP Lori Boyer to feature in public health Community Conversation

Slowly but surely, Jax Council VP race being decided

Jacksonville City Council passes Neighborhoods bill

“Us guys don’t carry pocketbooks”: Jax City Council revisits communications tracking software

Changes ahead for Jax Banking Fund?

Ahead of Nocatee rally, NE Florida Republicans back Marco Rubio

The future of communications tracking in the Jax City Council is now