The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee met on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, from 1:05 PM to 1:47 PM in the Council Chamber. Chair Will Lahnen presided. Members present: Chris Miller (Vice Chair), Terrence Freeman (arrived 1:05 PM), Mike Gay, Rahman Johnson (arrived 1:15 PM), and Randy White. Rory Diamond was excused. Councilmember Peluso also attended. The committee received presentations, heard public comment, and acted on multiple agenda items, including several budget bills related to FY 26-27.
The next regular meeting of the Finance Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
Good afternoon, everyone. We'll go ahead and get started with the Wednesday, August 19th meeting of the Finance Committee. Introduction starting to my left. Brittany Norris for the administration. Colleen Hamsey, Council of Research. Mary Stefopoulos, Office of General Counsel. Heather Reber, Council Auditor's Office. Philip Peterson, Council Auditor. Good afternoon, Chris Miller at large group five. Will Lane in District Three. Terrence Freeman at large group one. Mike Gay, District Two. Randy White, District 12. All right, good afternoon, everyone. Councilmember Freeman, as a reminder, you now only have one excusal remaining for the entire council year. So just want to make sure you are aware of that. So looking at the agenda for today, the first order of business, we're gonna have uh Dustin Freeman uh present his uh quarterly single source presentation. Uh then we have a couple folks here. I believe we have two folks here for CPAC presentations uh that we'll talk through. Then Mr. Peterson is going to go over his quarterly summary for the nine months into June 30th, 2026, then public comment, and then we'll get into the agenda. Uh so with that, I'll have uh Mr. Freeman, the chief of our procurement division, come up here. I'll note that he has passed around his report. Uh Mr. Freeman. Uh good afternoon, Dustin Freeman, Chief of Procurement. Um Mr. Chair, committee members, the report in front of you is the third quarter single source report for FY26. Uh, this report reflects all the single source purchases over $50,000, and the using agency's justification for each are attached. In Q3, there was a total of 17 single source purchase orders totaling a little over 2.4 million and five purchase order agreements totaling a little over 1.3 million. There were six purchase orders that I would consider unique, which is outside of the normal maintenance and warranty agreements. Item one, or excuse me, item two, natural and marine resources, a little over 62,000. Item three from KHA, Office of the Director, 60,000. Item four, animal care and protective services, three hundred thousand. Item six, sports and entertainment, a little over fifty-eight thousand. Item 11, sports and entertainment, a little over 62,000. And the last is item 17 from Homeland Security, a little over 303,000. Uh, this concludes my report. Happy to answer any questions related to procurement uh regards to single sources. However, we'll defer to the use and agencies if you have specific questions on the technical aspects of the scope. Thank you, Mr. Freeman. Uh colleagues, I don't see anyone in the queue. So with that, we'll move on and uh thank you, Mr. Freeman, and what your team does for the city. Uh CPAC presentations. Uh so I see Mr. Barr out there from CPAC 6, I believe. Do we have any other CPAC representatives in the audience?