TU: City: No draft copy of Jacksonville mayor's budget, which is due today

[Patricia M. McBride]

I am thinking this is not really an issue unless the draft isn't turned into the council today, and it looks like the finishing touches are going on the budget as we speak!

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Spokesman says finance department planned to finish document overnight.

By           Timothy J.  Gibbonsjacksonville.com            Copyright 2012 The Florida Times-Union. All  rights res...

April  30, 2012 - 08:18pm

City: No draft copy of  Jacksonville mayor's budget, which is due today

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."

Read more at Jacksonville.com:  http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-04-30/story/city-no-draft-c...