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.
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