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A.G. GancarskiAugust 11, 2015

As the new Jacksonville City Council settles in and bills wend their way through committees, Jacksonville City Council meetings haven’t truly heated up as they will during September’s budget deliberations. However, Jacksonville’s City Council is always a hotbed of entertainment and public interest, and Tuesday evening’s Council conclave was no exception. The Hemming Park funding […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 6, 2015

One of the hallmarks of the Lenny Curry administration thus far has been increasing the transparency of the process, which many people both covering City Hall and working inside it thought was necessary. The downside: It makes events like Thursday’s presentation of transition subcommittee reports, the culmination of a process begun shortly after Curry’s election, necessarily […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

In the immortal words of Wyclef Jean, the Jacksonville City Council Special Committee on Capital Improvement Projects is “gone ’til November.” However, it did have one final meeting (aside from an expected cameo during August’s Finance Committee budget hearings) on Wednesday afternoon. Many fascinating topics were covered at the meeting, which included, at least for part […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 29, 2015

Paul Martinez, Director of Intragovernmental Services for the City of Jacksonville, is departing city employment effective July 31. In an email, CAO Sam Mousa stated that “Paul’s last day at work for the City will be Friday, July 31, 2015. The mayor neither rejected nor accepted Paul’s resignation letter that was submitted at the beginning of […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 29, 2015

Jacksonville’s Special Committee on the JEA Agreement doesn’t exactly grab the headlines. However, to those living in Jacksonville and subject to mandatory sewage, water, and power service from the public utility, the relationship between Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Electric Authority bears watching, as Florida Politics did during their Tuesday afternoon meeting. The meeting agenda identified […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

“City Council meetings are like Christmas twice a month. You know you’ll get a present. The question is whether it’s going to be a good one or a bad one,” Council President Greg Anderson said before the meeting The first City Council meeting of the new class was expected, going in, to be a quiet one. […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 20, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry delivered his administration’s first budget address just after at 8:30 a.m. Monday to a packed Jacksonville City Council chambers. It was a short, direct speech that, as expected, mirrored policies established in budget hearings and the draft version released this past week. Council President Greg Anderson called the meeting to order at 8:33, […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced late Friday the appointment of Kevin Stork as Jacksonville comptroller. Stork returns to a role he held during two Republican administrations between 1999 and 2011, at an annual salary of a little more than $131,000. “Kevin Stork will bring his keen financial acumen back to City Hall and I am excited […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2015

As the Jacksonville media digests and reports on Lenny Curry’s inaugural budget, most of us are struck by how positive the initial reaction to it has been, and so we write positive pieces. WJXT had one such piece: “Police, fire leaders like mayor’s budget proposal.” The story had positive comments from Randy Wyse and Sheriff Mike Williams, and Council […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2015

Florida Politics has covered the Lenny Curry transition subcommittees as thoroughly as any Jacksonville outlet, and as we review the subcommittee reports (in draft form), a holistic vision is emerging in both the budget early-stage actions by Curry and the organizational structure. The A Safer Jacksonville subcommittee recommended new fire stations and some relocations of fire stations […]

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Jax City Council approves Hemming Park deal 18-1

Curry transition reports push Neighborhoods, Jax Journey

Jax CIP committee, Curry administration debate semantics, capital, reserves

Paul Martinez leaving COJ government

JEA and COJ: at “cross purposes and cross goals”?

Jacksonville City Council: July 28, 2015 recap

With first budget, Lenny Curry says “Jacksonville is back in business”

Kevin Stork returns as Jax comptroller

Sam Mousa laments “inaccuracies and falsies”

Lenny Curry transition subcommittee reports show holistic vision