RE
Raul E. Arias, Jr.
Council Member
District 11
Jacksonville, FL
August 27, 2026
Last heard
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at 1:49:30So, one of the biggest things with FAC is that, you know, we put a call to action to them last year when we were about to cut them, and we said, hey, we want you guys to come up here to Jacksonville, do a tour.
at 1:50:09We're going to start at the Mayo Clinic and then go to JTA, then the Jaguar Stadium of the Future, then the Ritz Theater, and then on top of that, they're going to do other stops that are not listed here.
at 2:31:32I'm going to hand it over to OGC, Mr. Harvey, to go over the details on the floor amendment.
at 2:32:07Just wanted to thank my colleagues on LUZ, Mr. Zach Miller, for being there for our community.
at 0:01All right. Good evening, everybody. It is 5 o'clock on August 19th. We're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to convene the Land Use and Zoning Committee with introductions to my left.
at 1:05:50But without any really further debate, we're going to defer 2026-532, and we will go ahead and open the public hearing again, and we'll continue this public hearing until – what date?
at 1:45:59So just two bullet points very quick for the council members here is the fact that next week we're going to have a public notice meeting,
at 1:47:45I was only asking because when we have the meeting next week, the communities want to know what's going on with that,
at 56:00Is there a fee that we could create or that exists where there's like a food desert fee where if you're developing in that district that is clearly prone to food desert issues that we could put money into that?
at 2:12:06But what I will say is maybe pick a day of the week, whether it's Mondays, and now you know every quarter on that Monday, they're going to be doing the hood cleaning.
at 3:08:24Very quick. I'm just going to speak on this one, but obviously it pertains to the other two
at 3:08:51already going on half a year that we passed the legislation to actually fund them. So no new
at 32:32the July for that part? That's one. And then the second part is, are we also going to know who benefited from not
at 32:58are paying with their life savings. And then to have larger entities that could easily write that check,
at 1:23:14But I want to say, if this building is being built specifically for a workforce program, not for a hotel, not for commercial uses, for a restaurant, whatever, but a workforce environment to be able to train chefs, then this building should count towards a CBA obligation.
at 1:24:45So I definitely, I want to say, and I'll have to find the videos, but I want to say I definitely ask that question because I know Mr. Howland and Mr. Landon, being on finance, they probably asked the same question during that vote that we did for the $15 million.