It's a circus @ the council tonight!

[sheclown]

floats


clowns


and long lines just to get in

[RiversideLoki]

My god, man. These people have lost their minds.

[Springfielder]

It's just a means to get attention....it worked. Now if the council would just do the right thing and not approve this budget with the increases

[tufsu1]

that's the saddest part...our city is barely surviving on a shoestring budget...and folks want it cut further

check this out...the City of Tampa (with less than 1/2 the pop. of Jax.) has a budget that is 80% the size of ours.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/sep/28/281817/tampa-council-approves-787-million-budget/news-breaking/

[Keith-N-Jax]

 The real sad part is that were so strapped for cash, we can spend 400 thou on a study about moving the fair and with the same breath talk about budget short falls and increasing taxes, more money for these idiots to spend, now thats whats really sad.

[tufsu1]

well at least that $400k is going to a local consultant....so the money gets recirculated through the community

[CS Foltz]

tufsu...........thats about the only thing good about it!

[brainstormer]

Where were all of these people during town halls, budget meetings over the summer, finance committee meetings, etc?  I watched a few of them get interviewed by local news reporters and they talked in circles.  Uh, changing the city's take home vehicle policy is not going to make a dent in cutting 45 million.  Canning the whole Human Rights Commission would only save a million.  A bunch of clowns is right!  I hope the council doesn't listen.

[CS Foltz]

227 AMIO positions costing $27 Million Dollars a year...........don't see anything being done about that! Cancel the "Veterans Day Parade" chicken feed!

[brainstormer]

Just to clarify.

While I do believe there are budget items that need to be addressed, I don't think this mayor and current council will be the ones to do that.  It will take new leadership with balls to make some of the serious changes that should take place.  With that being said, I don't think finding 45 million in cuts by Friday will help this city grow and improve.  In my opinion, our tax rate is already quite low.  I'm one of those that wants the better quality of life rather than dirt cheap taxes.

[ricker]

I too will continue to volunteer my time money and energy to work for causes I believe better this great hometown of mine, we all want the better Jacksonville, previous notwithstanding this could not possibly be the right time (big picture) to raise the millage [so drastically].

The faces behind the broad council desk are not struggling to feed their faces or families.

I personally do not care if you own or rent your hatrack, but do you trruly believe that a 9% jump is the element which will [voila / tada] deliver your vision of the better Jacksonville?

C'mon, loon.
 

[ricker]

I am learning from C o J general counsel, that council convenes biweekly to continually adjust the budget.
I am still awake watching these nincompoops confuse themselves.
it would be funny if I weren't so pissed.

[uptowngirl]

If the city is so desperate why did they give 4MM back to the Jags for a Ruth Chris dinner?

[CS Foltz]

Said it before..............10% cut across the board for all Departments and make do! Any takers on who will file the first lawsuit against this? uptowngirl...........I don't have the faintest idea and evidently the Council does not either!

[sean]

Why not make churches pay a 10th or some other fraction of their property taxes? There is an absurd number of churches in jacksonville. FBC owns almost 70 million in property downtown. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's?