Nick Howland

at 0:01Good evening. I call to order the October 27th meeting of the Jacksonville City Council.

at 49:41If it's done virtually, he'd be sworn in with a notary at his side in Dallas, and he could appear right here, and we can ask him questions, or he could be back and we can do it in person.

at 1:00:19Uh, Mr. Barnes, the, um, for clarity, then the, the, your new working budget, uh, of salaries and wages reflecting a reduction of 24 million, 859 on the salaries and wages lines associated with the 200, um, roughly 200 layoffs that you did.

at 15:20Through the chair to Councilmember Gay, we have three separate contracts, including an in-house bus stop crew that works in quadrants around the city to take care of that.

at 46:45I just couldn't miss this opportunity to thank Mr. Mole, Mr. Tarbert, Ms. Trimmer for your patience

at 30:09So, you know, I'm open and to listen to what the desire of the committee is, but I also want to poise the question is what Mr. Dennis had mentioned about the ongoing, I guess, scrutiny of the business

at 30:34to where if it's deferral and it keeps staying on the agenda, that it's still going to be lingering to where if it's just done as a withdrawal and then come back at another point in time to reintroduce, I think that would probably be a cleaner pathway.

at 56:32with, um, presumptive, uh, Florida statutes, um, and, uh, not avoid getting lawsuit by Florida

at 58:29Everybody received the letter from Florida Carry back in the first week of July, and I forwarded

at 8:10It was always because he got into the details of the spreadsheet of the business case for any development downtown.

at 13:57And the reason we're doing that is that would be consistent with Duval County Public Schools spring break and all our university spring breaks, which would then give staff time to be off while their kids are off.

at 24:29For the record, I wanted to note that someone brought up during public comment that a member of ONU's staff is one of my board members at the Firewatch Project, Inc., and I checked with ethics, and there's absolutely no conflict there whatsoever.

at 24:52The way that the Firewatch board works is we've, rather than have donors on our board, we have folks from influential veteran-serving organizations, which have helped us expand rapidly, including Wooded Warrior Project and Canines for Warriors and others.

at 3:13I think every CPAC will have 20 minutes to just talk about the things going on in their district that we should be mindful of in their region,

at 4:00we're absolutely going to hear and consider every single concern of the CPAC as we approach the month of August for the budget hearings.