By the close of business today, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown must present  to the City Council his proposed city budget for the next fiscal year.

As of 8 p.m. Monday, though, the mayor's office said no drafts of such a  document existed, after it had been asked for the records each day since  Thursday.

The city's finance department was still firming up numbers, said mayoral  spokesman David DeCamp, and planned on pulling everything together into document  form overnight.

DeCamp said Monday night the city had nothing that fit a public records  request filed by the Times-Union last week.

That request asked for "a copy of any draft or working copy of the  preliminary or initial budget submission that is due to the City Council on May  1."