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Votes at a glance: key finance-committee actions Sept. 3
Summary
A single list of formal committee actions recorded during the Sept. 3 Finance Committee meeting, including tentative millage votes, budget substitute approval and other ordinance actions.
The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee recorded the following formal actions and votes on Sept. 3. This list summarizes motions, outcomes and recorded tallies from the meeting transcript.
- Ordinance 20250614 (CIP/parcel corrections): Amendment adopted; bill passed (recorded committee result: 8 yeas, 0 nays). Auditors described the amendment as correcting prior-year funding amounts and parcel identifications.
- Ordinance 20250557: Motion to approve passed (recorded vote: 8 yeas, 0 nays). Committee commentary praised improved transparency tied to this item.
- Ordinance 20250613 (redevelopment agreement; affordable housing/market-rate units): Amendment to add market-rate-unit references and loan-deposit clarifications was adopted and bill passed (recorded committee vote: 8 yeas, 0 nays). Staff clarified disposition and appraisal requirements for surplus city parcels.
- Ordinance 20250422 (neighborhood amendment — reallocation to radio communication and group health funds): Amendment adopted and motion to move bill passed (recorded committee result: 8 yeas, 0 nays). The action reduced a neighborhood appropriation and shifted funds to address a shortfall in the group-health fund.
- Ordinance 20250457: Withdrawn by motion (recorded committee vote to withdraw: 8 yeas, 0 nays).
- Ordinance 20250422 (health-fund action noted above) led to committee direction to convene subsequent health-fund review meetings to identify long-term cost savings.
- Ordinance 20250501 (general services district tentative millage): Committee adopted an amendment reducing the millage by one-eighth of a mill (new tentative rate 11.1919) and then approved the tentative millage as amended (recorded committee tally for the final motion: 6 yeas, 2 nays).
- Ordinance 20250502 (Beaches tentative millage): Committee adopted amendment and approved tentative millage as amended (recorded committee tally: 5 yeas, 2 nays).
- Ordinance 20250503 (Baldwin tentative millage): Committee adopted amendment adjusting the rate to maintain required interlocal differential (9.4208) and approved tentative millage as amended.
- Ordinance 20250504 (tentative budget substitute): Committee adopted the substitute and rolled in several technical and programmatic amendments (voice vote and subsequent recorded actions; final committee recorded motion on substitute: 8 yeas, 0 nays). The substitute included technical auditor amendments and several program funding adjustments (FOP foundation term sheet, Salvation Army emergency beds, Florida Black Expo funding and Bayston Road bicycle project clean-up) as described by staff.
- Ordinance 20250608 (donation of eight surplus parcels to East Side Housing Collaborative LLC): Committee approved amendment that extended development timelines and placed an outside reversion date; bill passed (recorded committee vote: 8 yeas, 0 nays).
- Ordinance 20250609'0,610, 20250611, 20250612 and several subsequent consent items: Motion and recorded votes taken in the latter portion of the agenda produced recorded tallies (common committee results during this block were recorded as 7 yeas/1 nay or 8 yeas/0 nays depending on item); committee minutes show each passing unless explicitly deferred.
- Ordinance 20250522: Committee approved (recorded vote: 7 yeas, 1 nay).
- Ordinance 20250672 (emergency): Committee approved emergency authorization to permit the Police & Fire Pension Fund to enter short-term borrowing to meet a September timing need; recorded committee vote 8 yeas, 0 nays. Pension-fund executives and fund staff said the mechanism would avoid forced liquidation of roughly $250 million in investments and protect investment returns while the City's October 1 contribution is processed.
Notes on deferrals and withdrawals: Several items listed on the agenda were deferred by the committee or withdrawn by motion; committee staff recorded those actions on the audio and in roll-call results.
Why this list: Committee recorded numerous formal motions and votes across substantive budget, capital and housing items. These summaries are drawn from the committee transcript and staff explanations given at the meeting.
For full vote details, including motion text and roll-call records, see the formal minutes and the committee's posted roll-call for Sept. 3.
