A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2020
6min470
An ill-fated sales push rocked the once-stable JEA.
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A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2020A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2018
5min477
The ongoing contretemps between Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and City Council President Anna Brosche continued apace last week. The two Republicans exchanged sharp words in letters, with Curry (who has lambasted Brosche in the past, including but not limited to descriptions of her actions as “disgraceful, irresponsible, ridiculous … slanderous”) asserting that Brosche’s communications with the Mayor’s […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 5, 2018
5min205
The Jacksonville City Council special committee on the potential sale of JEA continued its regular Thursday deliberations. The major highlight of the meeting: One of the potential sticking points to a JEA sale: a 20-year commitment to Plant Vogtle, a nuclear plant under construction in Georgia, with exposure leading to a ratings downgrade for JEA late last […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 30, 2018
Anna Brosche on collision course with Lenny Curry, JEA management over sale timeline inconsistencies
12min425
After Thursday’s explosive meeting of the Jacksonville City Council’s special committee on JEA, which saw Council President Anna Brosche and Finance Chair Garrett Dennis pillory CEO Paul McElroy over numerous inconsistencies in his testimony, what’s certain is that, at least for Brosche, the questions have only begun. In a 20-minute-plus gaggle Thursday evening, Brosche went into great detail […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 30, 201811min500
The Jacksonville City Council’s special committee on the “potential sale” of local utility JEA met Thursday for the first time since the Council decided to expand the panel from five to 19 members. The major item of interest: the testimony of JEA CEO Paul McElroy, previously summoned via subpoena. McElroy was compelled to address, among other […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2017
4min209
Almost 11 months ago to the day, the JEA Board gave the utility high marks for its performance during and after Hurricane Matthew. On Tuesday, it was time for an encore performance — as the JEA Board met, with Hurricane Irma on its mind. After a week in which the Mayor had “stern words” for […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2017
5min199
Monday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting saw local officials address the body regarding Hurricane Irma. Expect a big budgetary hit from this year’s storm, with infrastructural damage that is still being tallied. That cost was buried in the mix of a few speakers on Monday, but will be the long-range policy impact of the storm. The city’s […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2017
8min223
Sewage spills. Flawed communication with customers. Dead stoplights and live wires in the street. A board not accountable to City Hall. These are just a few of the issues vexing local policy makers as the week ends. A story percolating just beneath the surface of Jacksonville coverage of Irma: disquiet of local officials with the […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 20174min236
The visual for television cameras was vivid: Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry up in a bucket truck, on the scene of a JEA restoration. But what can’t be seen is worth noting as well: crews from all over the country, many of them responding to Jacksonville’s plight as seen on television news, coursing in to help with […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2017
3min255
FloridaPolitics.com patched into a call Tuesday involving the Jacksonville City Council and a representative of the Mayor’s Office; the hot topic was JEA power restoration. A representative of the Mayor’s Office noted that Curry had been “stern” with JEA CEO Paul McElroy, whose storm restoration efforts seemed to be moving slowly Tuesday. More than 163,000 customers […]