Jacksonville's City Council rejected Mayor Alvin Brown's veto  of a $750,000 appropriation for furnishing seventh-floor hearing rooms in the  new Duval County Courthouse.

With no debate and only a few questions, the council decided the issue 15-2 in a special meeting Thursday. Richard Clark and John Crescimbeni voted against the override.

Brown vetoed the bill last week, days after the council  approved it 18-1.

The mayor's staff said there is enough furniture in the  existing courthouse to move that to the new building and outfit the 37 hearing  rooms. Brown added that more than $5 million had been spent already furnishing  the building, which will have an overall cost of about $350 million.

Judges had argued the furniture, some of which is decades  old, includes many pieces that are in poor condition or the wrong sizes and  types to be used in the hearing rooms, each designed to hold 20 people.

Slideshow: Review the furniture for yourself

After Public Works Director Jim Robinson led an inventory of  the furniture Monday and Tuesday, Brown's staff circulated photos Thursday of  furnished rooms and a breakdown of where pieces would be used in the new  courthouse in an attempt to prove they had enough matching pieces on  hand.