Archive for July, 2009

Abel Harding On July 28, JEA will present their budget presentation to the Jacksonville City Council.  Included in that presentation will be the funding they (and the City) are proposing for the Water & Sewer Expansion Authority.  The Water & Sewer Expansion Authority (WSEA) is a separate independent city agency that was formed in 2003 to... »

Abel Harding 174 employees of The Jacksonville Landing became the latest group to weigh in on the Mayor's proposed 12 % increase in the city's millage rate.  Citing a fear that the city's special events budget would be drastically impacted, the Landing employees said that they "cannot afford to see any part of special events... »

Abel Harding The consultant hired in early 2008 by the Jacksonville City Employees Retirement System to serve as the general investment consultant to the $1.3 billion pension program has struggled to overcome charges that it was linked to disgraced financier Bernie Maddoff.  Summit Strategies Group, who also serves as the general consultant for the Jacksonville... »

Abel Harding Jim King, the legendary Jacksonville legislator, has passed away after a short battle with cancer.  He was 69. King first went to Tallahaseee in the 1980's, a rare Republican in a chamber dominated by Democrats.  Over the years, he built a reputation as a consensus builder and a moderate.  Elected in the late 1990's... »