Council auditors, members question protobox hologram purchase and use of building‑inspection funds at JIA

Council auditors and multiple city council members on Jan. 7 questioned the administration about purchase orders tied to a protobox hologram placed at Jacksonville International Airport and whether building inspection funds could lawfully pay for the device.

The council auditor’s office told the Finance Committee it had identified purchase orders totaling “about $75,000” tied to a vendor listed as “Univision Technologies,” and that the auditor’s office had asked the administration on Dec. 19 for clarification about what fund would pay the invoices and whether that use would comply with state law. “We sent a series of questions. We're still waiting to get answers,” Kim Taylor, Council Auditor, said. Taylor said the auditors did not see evidence payments had been made yet and that they were waiting for confirmation of the final funding source.

Mike Weinstein, chief of staff for the mayor, described the protobox as part of a multi‑year effort called JAX EPICS to…