The Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety Committee of the Jacksonville City Council met on Monday, June 1, 2026, from 9:30 AM to 10:54 AM in the Council Chamber. The meeting was chaired by Mike Gay and attended by members Randy White, Ron Salem, Ken Amaro, and Michael Boylan; Chris Miller and Tyrona Clark-Murray were excused. The committee took action on numerous ordinances, including authorizing a major waste-hauler contract amendment, approving a below-appraised-value sale of the former JEA headquarters, and advancing summer youth employment programs.
Well good morning everyone welcome to our June 1st neighborhoods meeting. I'll call the meeting to order, and we'll go ahead and start with introductions to my left with Mr. Delaney. Good morning, y'all. Bill Delaney, Mayor's Office. Brandon Russell, Council Research. Mary Stephopolis, Office of General Counsel. Philip Peterson, Council's Office. Roman. Good morning, Michael Boyle, and happy Monday. Uh Kenamara, City Council, District 1. Brandy White, District 12. White Gay, District 2. Ron Salem, Group 2 at large. Ratman Johnson, District 14. Good morning. Just visiting. Good morning, Councilman. Reginald Gaffin and Julia just visiting District 8. Well, welcome, visiting Council members. Glad to have you here. Do we have any public comment cards? All right. We have two. The first speaker will be Cornell Oliver. Please come on down. You'll be given three minutes to speak directly to a specific item on our agenda and uh state your name and address or say it's on file for the record. Mr. Oliver, you have three minutes. Uh yes, my name is Carneg Oliver. Uh addresses on file. I want to speak to the KHA funding that has come in, being sponsored by uh Mr. Um Gabney Jr. And I also want to speak about the 700 something thousand dollars cap. When it comes down to city funding, I have my red light is coming on and on, because thing about it is that money a lot of money has been thrown to waste, and some of the biggest lessons that I've learned is through COVID 19 years. I will never forget the lessons that I learned because if properly, if this city was a good store with taxpayer dollars, we wouldn't be in the situation that we're in. And it leaves me to talk about what the Bible says. The old testament talks about discipline and personal responsibility, right? The new testament talks about forgiveness because somebody paid the ultimate cost for somebody else breaking a lot of furnace. At this point in time, you look at me like I'm homeless, right? Of course I am. You expect me to get off my butt, do my part. How do you expect me to be a productive member of society when the resources that y'all put out on the streets are not going to the ones that need it the most? Your line in pockets of NGOs, developers. I am one of the biggest supporters right now of Ron DeSante's $250,000 tax exempt because it'll cripple NGOs, it'll stop all this frivolous spending, and we can fire some of these crooked city employees. I'm at a breaking point right now with all the mass corruption, especially some of these rhinos on this city council. Too much furniture has got broken because of ignorance. I have told you plenty of times about moving fools, but you made this wrong choices, time after time after time, and everybody's paying for it. All right, thank you. Our next speaker will be Mr.