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Jacksonville CRA boards approve preliminary FY budget placeholders; minutes approved
Summary
Two Jacksonville Community Redevelopment Agency boards approved preliminary fiscal-year budget placeholders required by city code and approved meeting minutes, voting unanimously on each item.
The Kings Suttell and Renew Arlington Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) boards approved preliminary budget placeholders for the upcoming fiscal year and approved meeting minutes from Feb. 11, voting unanimously on each item.
Karen Nasralla, Office of Economic Development staff, told the Kings Suttell CRA that the board must submit preliminary budgets by June under city code. “Every May, I stand before you and present the obligatory preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year,” Nasralla said, adding that final tax increment financing (TIF) projections from the property appraiser’s office are not due to the city until July and will be incorporated into the mayor’s budget later in the summer.
The board approved the Kings Suttell preliminary budget, listed in the agenda as 2025-01, by a recorded vote of 14 yeas and 0 nays. The Renew Arlington CRA separately approved an identical placeholder preliminary budget, listed as 2025-02, by a recorded vote of 14 yeas and 0 nays. The boards also approved the Feb. 11 meeting minutes during the same sessions.
Why it matters: State and local budget timetables require CRAs to submit preliminary budgets before TIF estimates are finalized so the mayor’s office can include placeholders in the municipal budget. Nasralla said the budget office will replace placeholders with actual TIF figures when they arrive from the property appraiser and will present the mayor’s proposed budget to the council in July; the regular budget review will follow in August.
Key details and process notes: Nasralla said the city typically receives TIF projections from the property appraiser’s office in July; once those arrive the budget office will fold the real numbers into the mayor’s proposed budget. She said she will return to the CRA boards during the regular budget process in August to answer questions when actual numbers are available.
Votes at a glance: - Approval of minutes, Feb. 11 — outcome: approved (vote recorded during meeting; vote count not separately listed in transcript beyond general approval). - Kings Suttell CRA preliminary budget (agenda item 2025-01) — outcome: approved; tally: 14 yeas, 0 nays. - Renew Arlington CRA preliminary budget (agenda item 2025-02) — outcome: approved; tally: 14 yeas, 0 nays.
The meetings proceeded without public comment on the budget items and the panels recessed or moved on to their next agenda items after recording the votes.
The CRA staff asked newly elected council leadership to coordinate future CRA meeting schedules so quarterly CRA meeting dates can be posted per statute; staff said meetings are typically scheduled for August (year-end cleanup), November, February and May to meet the June preliminary-budget filing deadline.
