TEU committee approves series of CIP amendments, tax office relocation, Tiffany Hollis street renaming; solid-waste fee review set for July

Transportation, Energy and Utilities Committee members in Jacksonville on June 3 approved a package of capital-improvement and administrative ordinances, unanimously recording 5 yeas and 0 nays on each vote.

The actions included a neighborhoods amendment reducing scope for the Mandarin Park restroom project, an amendment clarifying appropriations for a project that funds part‑time hours and correcting scrivener errors, relocation of a tax-collector branch with a planned public-notification timeline, a street renaming to honor Tiffany Hollis (with a requested waiver from the city’s prominence requirement), and corrections to the Hodges Boulevard CIP funding schedule. Committee staff also reported that the solid-waste fee review will be completed in June and presented July 15 for budget consideration.

Why it matters: Several items alter the city’s capital-improvement project (CIP) funding or affect where residents obtain services, and the fee-review timeline could affect next year’s solid-waste charges and budgeting.

The committee began by noting two items were deferred and then moved through a lengthy TEU agenda made up largely of second‑read items and routine public hearings. Edward Linsky of the Council Auditor’s…