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Council Weighs Options After Finance Committee Votes Down Tax Hike

By Abel Harding

Abel Harding Jacksonville's nineteen city council members will now take up Mayor John Peyton's proposal for a 12% increase in the city's millage rate after the Council's Finance Committee voted 6-0 against the proposal.  Bill Bishop, one of the Committee's members, said that rejecting the Mayor's proposal would force the city to get serious about... »