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Comment by DURWIN WALTER DAVIS on August 23, 2011 at 10:31am

City council meets tonite @ 1700, St. James, E. Duval St.  Bill 2011-400 More mis-malfeasance by council.  They want to appeove $4(?) million to KAMAN CORP. by corrupt J.E.D.C. for moving from one side of Imeson Airport Industrial Complex to another.  These funds are to be used for attracting outside companies to come to Jacksonville to compete against already existing businesses and put them out of business.  This is how Government does business.  Below is a well constructed letter from Mr. Carr addressing this issue.  Go to the meeting tonite and complain about this wastefull spending of taxpayers money.

Subject: Bill 2011 – 400 Vote on 23 August 2011

Both the Mayor’s Transition Team and the TRUE Commission are made up of extremely knowledgeable and competent people. They have both issued recommendations on this subject in the form of Resolutions or Reports.   

From the Transition Team’s submitted report to the Mayor dated 08 August 2011:  “ It is with a strong sense of urgency that we report to the mayor our findings and recommendations regarding the City of Jacksonville’s defined benefit pension system. The combination of pension fund deficits (unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities),  for the total of all city plans was last reported to be over $1.6 billion. It is expected that Jacksonville's pension costs could skyrocket by more than 50% in the next 5 years if the current pension structure remains in place.” Unquote  

Those are the experts’ words.  

The 2011- 400 bill does NOT cure the problem. At BEST, it’s a band-aid on a city that’s hemorraging taxpayer dollars. It still contains the sources of the problem. It needs to be killed, and restarted from scratch.   

From the TRUE Commission’s Resolution 2011-04 dated 04 August 2011:  

“Be it resolved that the TRUE Commission hereby recommends that the City Council not pass Ordinance 2011-400 and that a defined-contribution plan be considered for any future changes to pensions for new employees”  Unquote.  

Those are the experts’ words.  

The bill is against the law by its very existence, as it extends for 19 years, a contract which is limited by law to 3 years, and was not negotiated in accordance with the Sunshine law or between the proper parties. As such, there is a current legal action concerning it. Council should kill this Bill, and start from scratch.    Just “getting something done” to move it off your agenda does NOTHING to solve the huge problem of what this Bill does. Please kill the Bill, and start from scratch.

Comment by William T. Wright on August 23, 2011 at 10:07am

That what I thought. Alvin is a Democrat and he is compelled to raise taxes.

He promised during his campaign to not raise taxes. It's all in how he says it. He will say this is not a tax increase it is a fee increase, therefore I kept my promise. BSBSBS

 

Tom Wright

Comment by ray inman on August 23, 2011 at 10:02am

I find it even more curious that I have in hand a bill for one of my investment houses that indicates that the 2011 fee is currently $12.65 per month which computes to the fee NOT EVEN PASSED YET.  Could it be possible that the fix is in - right here in River City?

Comment by DURWIN WALTER DAVIS on August 23, 2011 at 9:37am

City council meets tonite @ St. James Bldg on E. Duval  Go tonite and also comment on the KAMAN-JEDC swindle (2011-400) of $4 million.  Blatant malfeasance of Duval Taxpayers monies.  Mayor is O.K. with it being the "Head Moocher In Charge". 

Comment by jerome w clampitt on August 23, 2011 at 7:20am

when we all leave duval county, then they can have their detroit of the south.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 23, 2011 at 6:53am

And, here is the link to the summary of the bill that allowed these folks to slip this one to us without much ado so to speak.

This is the link to the original bill that allows for future increases

http://cityclts.coj.net/coj/COJbillDetail.asp?F=2010-0673\Bill Summary

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 23, 2011 at 6:52am

Here is a link to a page where you can go in and see your property and the fees.  And this also has the information about the public hearing listed here.  I no longer get the liberal TU, so if someone can pull up the public notice by using the heading on the actual newspaper (I tried and can't get it up), that would be wonderful, so we can all read it.

Link:  http://www.coj.net/Departments/CityFees.aspx

Comment by Daniel R. Carr on August 22, 2011 at 8:55pm

Friends: The Public Notice was in Sunday's Times-Union rag on page B-3. If you want to see for sure what your new Solid waste fee will be go to www.coj.net, click "On-Line Services" tab, then under "Find Something" , click "Look up city user fees", then enter your last name and first name in the property owner box (no comma between), then click on the parcel number when it pops up. If you have a paved driveway, welcome to the 83% Fee (a.k.a TAX) increase crowd!

Like Rod M. said - tomorrow at 5:00 PM you need to be there at 117 Duval St. with your dander up! There will be many FCTP and CTDC folks letting Council know how they feel about this issue as well as the "Bankrupt Jax" Pension Bill 2011-400! Don't wait until 13 September!

Be There Or Be Square.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 22, 2011 at 8:26pm

If you are in the Arlington area, you would cross over the Matthews Bridge and follow along until you get to N. Main Street where you take a LEFT.  If you go down N. Main, stay in the left hand lane and just beyond Church St. on the left hand side is the Salvation Army Parking Lot.  They offer all day parking for $3.00 and Evening Parking for $5.00.  You park your car, go to the ticket machine where you can use dollar bills or a credit card to pay for your ticket.  Go back and lay the ticket on your dash face side up, and you are good until midnight in that lot (at which point you can move your car onto the street).  From the Salvation Army parking lot, which is between Church St and Duval St, you walk down to the N. Main and Duval St intersection, wait for the light, cross back over N. Main and walk the 2 or 3 blocks up to city hall which is on Duval St.  It is close and easy and this lot is wonderful during the day and not bad at night if you can't get a meter.   The parking garages are a total rip off, so that is out, or you can do as Rod says and go a little early and find a spot at a 2 hour meter.  It costs a quarter for each half hour, so it you get there at 4:30, you have to put 3 quarters in to get you to 6:00.  I have one of those little white envelopes full of quarters which is wise if you plan to go to city hall regularly :).  They do write tickets so make sure the meter is good for 6:00 or a little after.  After 6 it is free at all metered parking.  Hope that helps Rod. 

Comment by Ronald E. Warner Jr on August 22, 2011 at 8:24pm

Ive sent an email to all the city council members that Patricia posted. Thank you Patricia for postings the emails. They all need to be heard by us.

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