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Staff identifies roughly $19.4 million that could meet cityCommunity Benefits Agreement; council minimums clarified
Summary
Auditors and council staff presented a draft tally of budget items they believe meet the Community Benefits Agreement criteria and corrected a prior report on the required countywide minimum.
City budget staff told the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee on Aug. 5 that roughly $19.4 million in the proposed 2025 budget could meet the categories defined in the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA).
The auditor's office distributed a handout ahead of Thursday's budget hearing showing items scattered through the city's proposed budget that staff believe match the CBA categories: affordable housing, workforce housing, homelessness and workforce development. "You have a total of 19,400,000.0 that potentially could count," Kim Taylor, council auditor, said during the committee meeting.
Taylor also corrected an earlier figure the office had…
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