April 21st, it's 11 a.m.

And let us begin with introductions to my left.

Stephen Libby, Council Research.

Mary Stepopoulos, Office of General Counsel.

Brian Parks, Council Auditors Office.

Kim Taylor, Council Auditor.

Good morning, Chris Miller, at large group five.

Ron Salem, group two at large.

Good morning, Raw Aries, District 11.

My gay district two.

George.

And we have uh council member Diamond that's here, just walked in.

And George and George.

Do you want to call yourself in?

Councilmember Diamond.

Thank you, Rory Diamond, District 13, the beaches.

Okay.

Do we have any public comment cards?

Let's give them two minutes.

It looks like Vinny Vinny Barry or Barnes.

Barone.

Please come forward, sir.

You have two minutes.

If you'd state your name and your address or say it, it's all in file.

Sure.

My name is Vincent Barone, B-A-R-O-N-E, 12132, Weatherwood Estates Drive West, Jacksonville, Florida, 3223.

I'm here today to talk about form number 904, 901, and the uh Jacksonville today, uh February 3rd, 2026, talking about how the council, based on what the Doge reports is, has skimmed 200 million dollars from the taxpayers of Jacksonville.

Okay, I think that needs to stop.

And I'm putting the council on notice if I say this right, it's section 42 of uh section 42 uh of the constitute uh constitution 1983, Florida state law does not allow you guys that protects you guys from the it basically takes your insurance money and stand takes your insurance immunity off because I'm not looking for the insurance companies, I'm looking for the people that are supposed to be offered our fiduciaries to be able to make sure we don't get robbed.

Everybody talks about the east side, the east side is 70 years naked.

Why?

Because there's a there's a hole in the system, and the hole in the Sim is the system, the money never goes that way.

And the reason why it doesn't go that way is because they don't have work with the they my opinion, they don't work with the city, they always try to think they have a better idea.

Well, if you don't put uh affordable housings, like in spending 40 million dollars to build 10 homes, you know, I didn't do enough drugs in the 80s to remember that I would ever do something like that when you talk about we don't have housing.

You don't have housing there because you don't have responsible enough people to understand those numbers don't match up in the poorer neighborhoods, they stay poor, is because the money, like I said, the money flows out of it because you don't work with you're not working with the with the communities like Jacksport that has billions of dollars to help keep the money in the community.

They just drive through it.

Mr.

Brum, thank you.

Your time is up.

Thank you then.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Mr.

Nooney, you have two minutes.

Hello.

I am John Philanthropic, Jelly Roll.

Good boy, resiliency nooney, Ocho Trace, Cinco Says, Baskum Road, Jacksville, Florida, 32216.

I'm in City Council District 4, CPAC 3, School Board District 3.

Uh you know, here's a shout out.

RD, the real Doge, Ron Davis, 600, WBOB.

You know, Doge are waterways.

You know, you want uh, you know, uh Governor DeSantis, James Upmeyer, Blazing Olea, you know, Pardon Nooney, 2024 0107, 2024 0325.

You know, legislation is a dialogue of the community, and you know, right now, you know, uh, you want to save some money, you know, open our waterways.

Now I'm wearing my FWC hat.

You know, it's a playoff the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

You know, it's the state of Florida.

And you know, it also has a whole bunch of other acronyms that could be applicable, you know, when it comes to this doge stuff.

You know, fishing with council, fishing with Congress.

You know, we just had um, you know, fishing with Coglionese, or resiliency thing.

Now, uh I want to make these part of the permanent record.