TU: Mayor's bills on downtown, incentives get halting start in Jacksonville Council review

Shame on me for being such a skeptic, but isn't this very similiar to the 2 million dollar slush fund the mayor wants for discretionary (unapproved by council) spending?   We elect representatives from our area of town, and I prefer spending decisions rest on the city council with an opportunity for public input and a vote by each council member based on what their constituents feel is appropriate.  I don't think spending money and huge sums of money should be a unilateral decision made by the mayor (because than it becomes political and can be used a means to get votes by promising items to the constituents of an area.............).  I keep thinking college loans on the federal level that are now being looked at as a means to get votes for the president as he promises to even go so far as cancelling all the loans out and leaving us holding the bag.  Centralizing power over any function is never a totally good thing!  Consider weighing in on this with your council person.

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April 24, 2012

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown’s bills to revive downtown and  speed up incentives seem unlikely to reach a vote by the full City Council  within the next two weeks, the chairman of a subcommittee that opened a hearing  on the bills said Tuesday.

“We’ll do it a little faster next time,” said Councilman Doyle  Carter, who noted that city lawyers had just sent answers Monday evening to  about 70 questions by council auditors. He said the subcommittee will have to  meet again next week, maybe on Monday.

“I thought we’d get a little farther than we did. I’ve got a  boatload of questions,” said Councilman Robin Lumb, part of the three-member  subcommittee reviewing the bills for the Committee on Recreation, Community  Development, Public Health and Safety.

He said he expects discussion will center on Brown’s planned  Downtown Investment Authority and “its extraordinarily broad … authority.”

How much power that board will wield is largely the council’s  choice, city General Counsel Cindy Laquidara told the subcommittee.

Read more at Jacksonville.com:  http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-04-24/story/mayors-bills-do... 

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