City of Jacksonville $500,000 short of balanced FY2011 budget
Money was on the minds of city council members last week. In back to back meetings of the Finance Committee and the Fifth Monday Work Session, the council came together to discuss potential changes to the 2011 budget and what to expect from the upcoming audit report. |
City council meets tonight
The Jacksonville City Council has called for a special meeting today before tonight’s regular meeting. Council members will discuss repair of the gym floor at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Complex and hear an analysis of the Multi-Family... |
Gov. Crist appoints Dick Brown to represent Beaches area on the Jacksonville City Council
Faced with the prospect of a 25 percent property tax rate increase, Beaches residents barraged Gov. Charlie Crist with e-mails and calls last week, urging him to fill a vacant seat that left them with no voice on the Jacksonville City Council. Crist heard them. On Thursday, he appointed Dick Brown, 72, a former Neptune Beach mayor and Jacksonville City Council member. The appointment makes the ... |
Council may raise city salaries
Jacksonville city employees may see a salary increase in the proposed budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. City Council members agreed on a 3 percent raise paid over the course of the year at a budget workshop meeting Tuesday evening. |
As Jacksonville tightens travel belt, utility and port authority plan to increase their budgets
As tough financial times have caused City Hall departments to make drastic cuts to their travel budgets , two of Jacksonville's independent authorities are planning to spend more. JEA and the Jacksonville Port Authority are increasing their travel and training budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, although both point out what they'll spend is still less than 2008 levels, before the economic ... |
Jacksonville teen spearheads Warrior Run 5K as Eagle Scout project, fundraiser
Jacksonville Boy Scout Cody Burton is a veteran cross-country runner, but the 17-year-old won't have any time to lace up his running shoes for Saturday's Warrior Run 5K run through Ortega. Instead he'll be doing lots of running around managing the 7:30 a.m. run at Cortez Park, an inaugural event that also is his Eagle Scout project. Most Scouts do local improvement projects as their route to the ... |
Jacksonville required to fill empty City Council seat
JACKSONVILLE — A vacant City Council seat will have to be filled even though the council, on a split vote, decided not to make an appointment when it met Aug. 17. |
Atlantic Beach reviews adding video recording to city meetings
ATLANTIC BEACH - The city could be the first Beaches municipality to provide continued video recording of regular meetings, if the money's there. Discussion on video-recording City Commission meetings is expected to continue in the near future after robust debate last month. While Assistant City Manager David Thompson said he'd support instituting video recordings at commission meetings, he ... |
Life in Real Time: Jacksonville man finds new best friend
Later on, Frank Dunahoe would say it was kismet. Something unseen that brought the two of them together. But watching the 77-year-old Jacksonville man and the 7-pound Chihuahua at a city animal shelter, it was hard to say who seemed happier to be going home with the other. Someone found the black-and-white stray on James Street. For two weeks, the docile pup with satellite-dish ears waited in a ... |
Pets may be required to have registration and microchip
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tuesday the city council rules committee met on a proposed new pet ordinance that would require a registration and microchip for all Jacksonville pets. |
