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A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2017

The Jacksonville City Council voted Tuesday evening to approve Resolution 2017-457, which was intended to commemorate Consolidation. But the vote was not unanimous. A movement for full Council sponsorship of the resolution was spiked by Councilman Reggie Brown, who spoke at length about infrastructural failings and broken promises. Brown noted that JEA, for example, isn’t committed […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2017

Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche released charges last week for three special committees that will convene over the next year. Brosche previewed these committees during her inauguration speech last month. The Special Committee on Parks will deal with a continued decline of Jacksonville’s park system. “The Trust for Public Land recently ranked Jacksonville’s park system […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 18, 2017

A bill authorizing a referendum to increase the number of consecutive terms a Jacksonville City Council member can serve passed its second and final committee on Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by second-term Councilman Matt Schellenberg, passed Finance by a 5-2 margin Tuesday morning. Between committee stops, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry punted on expressing an opinion on the […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 18, 2017

Nothing like starting off a new committee by voting to gut term limits. Yet that’s what the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee did Tuesday. Tuesday saw the newly-reconfigured Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee approve a bill that would authorize a 2018 referendum to give City Councilors, constitutional officers, and School Board members a three-term limit. The […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 21, 2017

After committee stops for the legislation that seemed, at times, like outtakes from an Edward Albee script with all the personal attacks, Councilman Bill Gulliford‘s bill to slot $1.5M into a 6 month pilot program to treat opioid addiction cleared its final committee Wednesday. Less successful: Councilman Garrett Dennis’ bill to allocate $200,000 for swim lessons for […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 2, 2017

An issue among Jacksonville City Council members in recent weeks: how to get the funding needed for summer camps for at-risk youth? A “major announcement” was delivered by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry Friday on that subject, with 24 more sites being funded (bringing the total to 72 citywide, down from 98 previously), $958,000 more being allocated, and […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 28, 2017

A bill to impose a 90 day moratorium on block parties in Jacksonville was withdrawn from the city council Tuesday evening by NW Jacksonville Democrat Reggie Brown, The legislation (2017-196) posited “a legitimate public purpose in imposing a temporary moratorium on permitting recreational street closings … ‘block parties’ within the City, to allow the City time to create appropriate local […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 23, 2017

Residents of Jacksonville City Council districts 7 and 10 will have a chance Thursday evening to speak with their elected representatives. Councilmen Reggie Brown and Reggie Gaffney, both Democrats, have dueling meetings at 6 p.m. _____ Gaffney will meet District 7 constituents Thursday evening at the Highlands Library on Dunn Avenue. The topic: Jacksonville International Airport Community Redevelopment Area […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 22, 2017

Block parties are not a concern in most of Jacksonville, yet in what the sheriff’s office calls Zone 5, the gatherings predominate … and are becoming more popular year over year. In FY 2015, there were 135 of these events in the city. In FY 2016, there were 171. According to Chief Deloris Patterson, the commander for […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2017

A bill to impose a 90 day moratorium on block parties in Jacksonville (and not the rest of Duval County) cleared its two city council committees Tuesday. The legislation (2017-196) posits “a legitimate public purpose in imposing a temporary moratorium on permitting recreational street closings … ‘block parties’ within the City, to allow the City time to […]

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Rodney Guttman, image via University of West Florida.

Jax City Council sees fissures on celebrating Consolidation

Charges released for Jacksonville City Council special committees

Bill gutting term limits moves to full Jacksonville City Council

Jax Council Finance Committee votes to gut two-term limit

Jax Council bad blood spills over into fractious Finance Committee meeting

More summer camp money provided for ‘at-hope’ Jacksonville kids

Fiesta forever: Block party moratorium bill withdrawn from Jacksonville City Council

Jax City Councilmembers Reggie Gaffney, Reggie Brown hosting town hall meetings Thursday

Jacksonville City Council attempts to hash out block parties … again

Block party moratorium to be voted on by full Jacksonville City Council