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Residents urge committee not to cut libraries, community centers and senior services
Summary
During public comment, multiple residents told the committee that proposed budget cuts to libraries, community centers and senior services would harm vulnerable residents; speakers pressed the committee to reconsider trimming these services while questioning why higher-level offices were not reviewed for savings.
Several Jacksonville residents used the committee’s public-comment period on June 17 to urge members not to cut funding for libraries, community centers and senior centers and to ask the committee to look higher in the city budget for savings.
Gray Driscoll said he feared cuts to libraries and senior centers and urged the committee to consider the role those…
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