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Police defunding proposal from out of the blue puzzles onlookers
City Councilman Garrett Dennis made a half-hearted attempt Monday to defund the police in Jacksonville, to no avail. He announced his intent to hold half the $484 million police budget hostage. It got a swift, negative response from the head of the police union and others. Finance Committee Chairman Matt Carlucci immediately tweeted: “There will…
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Time once again for local politicians to spend some of the money you will earn next year
City Council will be voting Tuesday night on how to spend nearly $6 billion of your money. That’s the total amount of the city budget for 2020-21. (Not $1.3 billion, as local media reported.) The good news is the property tax rate will not increase. It will take about half, $2.9 billion, to run the…