TU: Jacksonville City Council panel approves Mayor Alvin Brown's pick for budget officer

[Patricia M. McBride]

This has only just been approved by the Rules committee but notably with a vote of 6 to 0 in favor.

 

By Steve Patterson

March 20, 2012 - 04:21am

Jacksonville City Council panel approves Mayor Alvin Brown's pick for budget officer

A Jacksonville City Council panel approved Mayor Alvin Brown’s pick for budget officer Monday after he promised to live in Duval County.

“We are going to establish a residency in Jacksonville,” Glenn Hansen told the council Rules Committee, which backed his confirmation 6-0.

Hansen lives now in St. Marys, Ga., and Brown’s office initially asked for a waiver of a city law requiring new employees to live in Duval County within six months.

Hansen is a former Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago executive and Jacksonville University faculty member who council members said they considered highly qualified

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