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Council adopts Salem substitute to keep East Side CBA funds under city oversight
Summary
After weeks of public comment, the Jacksonville Neighborhoods Committee voted 6-0 on Feb. 2 to adopt Councilman Ron Salem's substitute for bill 20260036, creating an internally administered East Side grants program modeled on the city's opioid and public service grants processes and moving oversight to Grants and Contract Compliance.
The Jacksonville Neighborhoods Committee adopted Councilman Ron Salem's substitute to bill 20260036 on Feb. 2, approving a city-administered East Side grants program intended to distribute supplemental CBA funds for the city's East Side neighborhoods. The committee voted 6-0 to move the bill as substituted.
Salem framed the substitute as a way to preserve city control and accelerate disbursement. "These are taxpayer dollars, and I think it's extremely important that we have control of those dollars," he said, arguing the opioid-model staffing approach could get money into East Side neighborhoods more quickly than creating an outside nonprofit. Inspector General Matt Lassell and Council Auditor Philip Peterson told the committee that keeping dollars inside city contracts reduces the risk of fraud and improves the city's ability to…
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