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A.G. GancarskiMay 21, 2018

Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche told a Council special committee Thursday that she had yet to get answers to questions to the JEA board regarding the hire of interim CEO Aaron Zahn. The questions included documentation of the selection process, SOP on employee screening, employee screening on Zahn, documentation of meetings between Zahn and board members after […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 26, 2018

With the controversial debate about privatizing Jacksonville’s public utility JEA in the rear view mirror for now after Mayor Lenny Curry said he wouldn’t introduce a privatization proposal, the Jacksonville City Council Special Committee on the Future of JEA Thursday had a different feel. JEA’s interim CEO, Aaron Zahn, addressed the committee for the second straight week. […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2018

In a memo to JEA employees Monday, interim CEO Aaron Zahn hailed “a new dawn” for the Jacksonville utility. The point of the memo was clear. It framed Zahn, a board member for one month who leveled-up into the CEO chair, as an agent of stability for the utility, which has been rocked for months by […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 19, 2018

On Tuesday, the board of Jacksonville’s public utility JEA picked former board member Aaron Zahn as its new interim CEO to serve for the next year. Meanwhile, CFO Melissa Dykes, passed over the CEO opening, will receive some sort of role change. Zahn and Dykes appeared at Thursday’s meeting of the Jacksonville City Council special committee on the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 29, 2015

Despite the handwringing in certain quarters about JEA’s annual bond ratings agency trip to New York earlier in December, JEA says it was “excellent.” An email from JEA CFO Melissa Dykes to Kerri Stewart, Chief of Staff of the Lenny Curry administration, credits the Jacksonville mayor. “The rating agency meetings were excellent. In particular, we have received […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 30, 2015

The Friday meeting of the JEA Board meeting started off with “unusual circumstances.” Because of various removals and resignations of board members, there weren’t actual officers. With that in mind, a chair pro tempore had to be elected, and into that void emerged Husein Cumber, one of the few holdovers left on a board that […]

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