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Alright.

We call to order the what is this?

Council executive committee meeting?

It is Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

I'm guessing it's about ten o two AM.

And uh we'll start off with some brief introductions.

Mary.

Mary Stepopoulos, Office of General Counsel.

Philip Peterson, Council Auditor's Office.

Kim Taylor, Council Auditor.

Joe Carlucci, District Five.

Kevin Carico, District Four, Chairman, President, and welcome Mr.

Finance Chair to the meeting.

So what we're gonna do is have a discussion on the assistant council auditor positions.

Why don't we turn that over to the current council auditor to be?

Philip Peterson for that discussion.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Uh so uh the executive committee is required to set the salary of assistant council auditors, and so given that uh Brian and Heather's appointments will hopefully go through council tonight, um and the an effective date of Thursday, trying to get uh approval for their salary beginning on Thursday.

All right.

Do we need to discuss the details of those salaries before we have public participation and questions or comments from committee members?

Uh to the chair, so yes, because you'll want to take it up as in the form of a motion, um, which obviously you would be able to second as chair because you have no one to pass the gap to, uh, but you might just ask if he is um proposing a specific salary for each of them, and then I would take them uh if it's the same salary, then you can just take it up as one motion um after he uh walks you through those details, and then you can take public participation before you vote.

That's exactly what I was gonna ask, Mr.

Finance Chair.

Did you have anything to ask?

No.

Mr.

Peterson, would you like to put on the record your recommendation so we can entertain a motion?

Yes, sir.

Uh through the chair, my uh motion or my request rather would be uh similar to what Ms.

Taylor uh did for me is just recommending my current salary of 212,356 dollars for both Miss Reber and Mr.

Parks.

Cool.

Is that more?

Did you have something, Mary?

Okay.

Is that more than they're making now?

That is.

Okay, cool.

Okay.

If you want to make a motion, yeah, I'll make a motion to do we have to do it individually or can we do both at the same time?

You can just make a motion to approve setting the salaries for both Mr.

Parks and Mr.

Reber.

All right.

Make a motion to set the salaries for both assistant council auditor positions to 212, 356 dollars.

Alright, I'm passing the gavel to give you a second.

All in favor of that motion.

Oh, so sorry.

We do have a public participation card, and this is limited to the motion and what we're discussing today.

John J.

Nooney.

Is there a John J.

Noone here?

All right.

Um safe to give him two minutes to discuss the assistant council auditor salary recommendations.

Mr.

Nooney, your time starts now.

Hello.

Yeah, I am John Philanthropic, Jelly Roll, Good Boy Resiliency Nooney.

8356 Baskam Road, Jacksonville, Florida, 32216.

City Council District 4, CPAC 3, School Board District 3.

And uh as, you know, with the council auditor positions, you know, I'm in full support.

What I want to get on the record are the new trust funds, 2025 0463, 2026, 0004.

That's the parks trust.

That would not be relative to this conversation.

Well, in that, you know, it I just have nothing but high praises say for the council auditors over the years in the continuation of what will be just an unbelievable working relationship.

So I just wanted to uh you know get that on the record.

Uh, you know, and and again I'm just trying to cite examples.

2009 442 is the artificial reef trust fund.

And you know, the auditors uh were just unbelievable.

They were super in that pro and that's going back years, and that guy he's no longer here, and you know, I could drop as many names as you want, but it is it is without a doubt, you know, you know, um, Peterson's Taylor and and just the whole team.

I uh it's uh it it's just been awesome.

So uh I just wanted to take this opportunity, show up and uh I'm in full support and look forward to you know to working, you know, with that team.

So thank you.

Alright, Mr.

Nooney, thank you for your public participation.

Alright, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.

Aye, aye, any opposed to saying nay.

The motion carries.

Mr.

Chair, so uh what the code provides is that the uh salaries would be set by written order of the executive committee, so what we'll do is we'll prepare a letter for your signature as chair, just establishing that this where the salaries have been set as approved by the committee today.

Since we have a committee in a quorum, any uh unfinished business you wanna get into, starting trouble?

No, no?

Nope.

Okay.

Alright.

Well then we're gonna go ahead and adjourn.