The City Council denied the request to allocate $3.1 million from the Mayor's Task Force Contingency towards reducing homelessness.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville City Council passed Mayor Donna Deegan's budget Tuesday night. For hours Tuesday night, the city council debated some councilmembers requests to move funds. The first debate challenged Council President Terrance Freeman's request to allocate $3.1 million from the Mayor's Task Force Contingency towards reducing homelessness.
"Homelessness is a crisis," Freeman said."It's not the mayors money, it's not the council's money, it's the people's money and we've got to stop taking ownership of it.""I'm not going to put $3.1 million dollars aside and think that's it," Councilman Matt Carlucci said,"The council agreed to return $100,000 to the Safety and Crime Reduction Commission for mental health.
Peluso withdrew his request for funding of both the Riverfront Plaza and Shipyards Projects but asked the council to make sure it gets completed. "We've now told the public these two parks are going to happen. They better happen in the way that we told everyone because if they end up being just a giant grass yard and a volleyball pit, people are going to be upset with us and they are going to say the same thing they've said for years, 'it's a city of renderings and we never execute.' Please, I am asking everyone as we move on into the future to keep an eye on these two projects," Councilman Jimmy Peluso said.
In a statement, Mayor Donna Deegan said: “This final budget makes generational investments to ensure Jacksonville’s citizens are healthy, safe, housed, and thriving. I'm grateful for President Salem and Vice President White’s leadership and I thank the full City Council for their collaboration. I look forward to our continued proactive partnership as we work together to implement these dollars for the community.
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