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Terrance Freeman
Council Member
At-Large Group 1
Jacksonville, FL
August 25, 2026
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at 29:35And now that I have one that is in college, and I see these little things now that are growing up 10 years later, I start seeing that I'm fighting not only for their future, but now for my grandkids as well.
at 31:45And I want to thank Councilman Boylan for being the Terrence Freeman whisperer up here because usually he'd be the one that would interpret my thoughts.
at 2:31:01And this is how hopefully we can prevent moving forward any types of misunderstandings when the sausage is being made that we're taking an action that in return might be reversed later, okay?
at 2:31:23I'm fully supportive of any time we can save money, but I want to understand what this does to you, and is this something that you feel that you can work with?
at 46:28So I wanted to make sure that this was something that that board approved of, or do we know if there was any dissenting voices of us moving this forward?
at 1:06:40And they were very, I don't know their processes, how they chose them, I don't know how the groups were selected, but I'm saying that because when you hear a lot of this conversation about microgrants and them not working, it wasn't something that I conceived.
at 2:28:25I also want to reference a point to Mr. Weinstein and say, Mr. Weinstein, I had a mentee ask me the other day, like, what do you do in this political space?
at 2:28:41And so what I want you to understand is I don't know whatever I might have experienced this morning, but I'm not one that's going to carry a grudge or move on with it.
at 6:46The challenge that I have, and I've gone around and asked my colleagues, am I the only one that
at 7:32And now all of a sudden, we have a leader from a diverse background, unique from his predecessors,
at 7:30thank you for your friendship. I truly believe in giving folks their roses while they can still smell them.
at 7:41but I was sitting in your congregation in the back. I'm a back row Baptist, all right? Preacher's kid.
at 10:35commend you for, one, filling out the questionnaire. A lot of people forget to do that, and it kind of helps
at 35:10Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Councilmember Lane. You kind of went where I was going to go with this.
at 7:43words. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Just an announcement you made earlier about the postponing
at 7:54of the vote of the veto. Can I just get clarification? Is there a way, if there's a will of the group