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Council tables affordable-housing briefing with UNCC DFI pending review of prior small-group meetings
Summary
A council member asked staff and the attorney to review whether prior small-group meetings with UNCC’s Development Finance Initiative contained sensitive information requiring a closed session; the council agreed to defer the item to the June 16 meeting and requested clarification from the attorney and staff.
The Jacksonville City Council voted to defer discussion of an affordable-housing initiative involving the UNCC Development Finance Initiative (DFI) and to ask the city attorney and staff to review whether previous small-group meetings contained information that would require a closed session.
At the workshop a council member said the DFI partnership and prior briefings warranted a closed-session review before the full council proceeded. The speaker asked that staff and the attorney evaluate whether the earlier small-group discussions contained material meeting the criteria for a closed session. The council moved the item to the June 16 agenda pending that review.
Tracy Jackson, who was identified in the presentation as connected to the DFI briefings, confirmed that earlier gatherings were conducted as smaller group sessions rather than a formal closed session: “Yes, it was a small group session,” she said on the record.
Staff and the attorney said they would re-evaluate the record and advise the council whether a closed-session review is warranted under open‑meetings law; the council accepted that approach and deferred substantive action until the attorney’s determination and until the fuller briefing at the next meeting.
Background: staff said the DFI partnership had been discussed with council for roughly two years and that the topic links to prior public comments about housing needs, including a November 2025 public comment by citizen Virginia Hill urging more affordable housing in the wake of housing impacts from Hurricane Florence.
Next steps: staff and the city attorney will review the earlier briefings and report back before the June 16 meeting; the council will take up the item again after the attorney’s determination and the full briefing, or place it on a closed‑session agenda if the attorney concludes that is required.
