Jacksonville’s city council votes Tuesday on Mayor Donna Deegan’s proposed budget — a package worth just over $2 billion — and one council member is already pushing to redirect public safety funds to remodel city hall offices.
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Jacksonville’s city council votes Tuesday on Mayor Donna Deegan’s proposed budget — a package worth just over $2 billion — and one council member is already pushing to redirect public safety funds to remodel city hall offices.
Jacksonville City Council is set to vote Tuesday on Mayor Donna Deegan’s proposed $2 billion budget, a spending plan shaped by public safety and infrastructure needs — and uncertainty surrounding a statewide property-tax amendment.
The Jacksonville City Council passed Mayor Donna Deegan’s roughly $2 billion budget Tuesday in an 18-1 vote, with Councilman Rory Diamond casting the only dissenting vote.
Jacksonville’s City Council approved Mayor Donna Deegan’s roughly $2 billion budget Tuesday in an 18-1 vote, with Republican Councilman Rory Diamond casting the only no vote. The budget restores $4.9 million to the city’s affordable housing trust fund after the Finance Committee removed the proposed allocation, following public concern and several meetings about the cut [news4jax.com#1][firstcoast
Mayor Donna Deegan said she is grateful to Jacksonville City Council members who voted to restore nearly $5 million for affordable housing as part of the city’s roughly $2 billion budget.