We were able to catch up with Mike Weinstein for a few minutes near the end of his campaign kick-off meeting at the Prime Osbourne Convention Center Tuesday night.
We had a few questions in regards to Mike's thoughts on downtown Jacksonville and the city's budget. Weinstein discusses the state of downtown, the homeless population downtown, obstacles facing downtown business owners, the failed construction of the new courthouse, and the city budget.
Mayor Peyton just recently announced the city's new budget. Included in the plan is a property tax rollback from 9.65 mills to 9.64 mills. This would save a taxpayer with a home assessed at $150,000 about $1.50. This will become important around election time, when voters will want to know what the mayor has done for them lately. The answer is simple: Lower taxes!
Kevin Conner hit the streets of Jacksonville to find out what residents and property owners of Jacksonville are going to do with their extra money. Watch the video now.
On May 3, 2006, two members of Metro Jacksonville spoke at the Southside Businessmen's Club meeting at the University Club downtown. About 60 SSBMC members showed up for the meeting. Topics covered by the speakers included a history of Metro Jackonville's formation and past and current activities of Metro Jacksonville.
Today we ventured into the Councilwoman’s office since we had still not received an acknowledgement from her office that they had received our email or that they would be complying. We took our video camera along. Ruple (Reggie Fullwood’s assistant) is on the left and Daisy Brown (Pat’s assistant) is on the right. Daisy, in particular, did not want to be on camera, so we had to shut it down early.
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority?s bus system could be seeing changes in the near future. Among those is the AirJTA fleet which serves as shuttle between Downtown and JIA.
Part of a chain-wide remodeling program, the store gained more than 2,400 square feet in the revamp, as Winn-Dixie sets its sights on downtown food shoppers.
It took three years, but Karen Mathis? predictions for Springfield retail relief have finally arrived in the form of a new Walgreens store at 8th and Davis.
