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Finance Committee votes: summary of bills advanced Sept. 16, 2025
Summary
The committee considered and voted on a series of budget ordinances, amendments and carryovers. This roundup lists items taken up in the Sept. 16 Finance Committee with their outcomes and recorded tallies where provided.
The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee advanced numerous budget-related bills and amendments at its Sept. 16 meeting. Below are the items discussed and the committee’s recorded outcomes. Where vote tallies were announced in the transcript those are reported; where a bill was amended and then passed the amendment and final vote are noted.
Votes at a glance (selected items recorded in the meeting transcript):
- Ordinance 20-25-0472 (rules amendment then bill): rules amendment approved; bill passed at committee (recorded tally: 6 yeas, 0 nays). - Ordinance 20-25-0642 (carryover/appropriation referenced on page 14): passed (recorded tally: not specified in transcript lines tied to the motion; committee announced the motion passed). - Ordinance 20-25-0514 (JTA operating/capital adjustments): amendment passed; bill as amended passed (7 yeas, 0 nays) after roll-up of JTA schedule corrections and capital grant adjustments. - Ordinance 20-25-0505 (City CIP schedules; roll-up of independent agencies): passed as amended (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Ordinance 20-25-0506 (technical amendment re: low income pool, Medicaid draw-down): passed as amended (recorded tally in transcript: 7 ayes, 0 nays). - Ordinance 20-25-0507 (IT project schedule/delivery adjustments): amendment passed; bill passed (7 yeas, 0 nays). - Ordinance 20-25-0509 (Public Service Grants schedule; microgrant amendment adopted then bill as amended): passed (recorded final vote: 6 yays, 0 nays, 1 abstention recorded on related items during the meeting). - Ordinance 20-25-0511 (Kids Hope Alliance appropriations, substitute): substitute and bill passed (recorded vote: 5 yays, 0 nays, 1 abstention noted in meeting for a member with a conflict). - Ordinance 20-25-0512, 0513 (various direct contracts / appropriations, some abstentions noted): bills as moved passed by committee with recorded tallies reported in the transcript (see below for select tallies). - Ordinance 20-25-0640 (use of garbage fee to replace planned borrowing for an economic development project): passed by committee (recorded tally: 6 yays, 0 nays). - Ordinance 20-25-0641 (Veterans and Military Family Community Center Trust Fund seed appropriation from district CIP underspends): passed (6 yays, 0 nays recorded in committee). - Several smaller KHA, parks, neighborhoods and independent agency schedule corrections and appropriations (20-25-0650 through 20-25-0665 range): committee approved amendments and final bills; most passed unanimous or near‑unanimous as recorded in transcript (typical tallies: 5–7 yeas, 0 nays; see transcript for individual roll calls). - Emergency carryover bills and several second-reading items submitted as emergency (2025 carryovers 20-25-0680, 0682, 0683, 0686, 0687, 0689, 0690, 0691, 0713–0720 range): committee majority voted to treat as emergency and moved the bills as emergency where noted in the meeting. Specific tallies were recorded in the transcript for many (examples below).
Selected recorded tallies reported verbally in the meeting transcript (committee roll calls): - 20-25-0472: 6 yays, 0 nays (rules amendment and final bill passage reported in the minutes). - 20-25-0642: 6 yays, 0 nays (chair announced passage after ballot). - 20-25-0514 (JTA): 7 yeas, 0 nays (roll-up after amendments). - 20-25-0505: 7 yeas, 0 nays. - 20-25-0506: 7 ayes, 0 nays. - 20-25-0507: 7 yeas, 0 nays. - 20-25-0509 (PSG as amended): 6 yays, 0 nays, 1 abstention noted in the meeting on related items. - 20-25-0511 (KHA): 5 yays, 0 nays, 1 abstention. - 20-25-0640 (debt service/CIP replacement): 6 yays, 0 nays. - 20-25-0641 (Veterans trust fund transfer): 6 yays, 0 nays. - 20-25-0680 (emergency carryover): recorded passage in committee (5 yeas, 0 nays in audible roll-call as read in transcript). - 20-25-0715 (small business capital access / RFP re‑encumbrance): 6 yays, 0 nays reported when moved. - 20-25-0720 (film & television carryover request discussed later): committee approved 4 yays, 2 nays on that item after debate.
Notes and caveats: the Finance Committee processed large bundles of schedule corrections, roll-ups, agency five-year schedule updates and several emergency carryovers tied to fiscal-year timing. Many items were amended on the floor (amendment, amendment-to-amendment and roll-up votes). Where the transcript announced a numerical tally that tally is reported above. For full roll-call detail, final ordinance text, and official vote records consult the council clerk’s published minute book and the final City Council agenda packet for Sept. 16–18, 2025.
