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.