All right, we are going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. Welcome to the Finance Committee. It is April 21st at 1 o'clock. We're going to go ahead and start with introductions to the left. Brittany Norris for the administration. Colleen Hampsey, Council Research. Mary Stifopoulos, Office of General Counsel. Phillip Peterson, Council Auditor's Office. Tim Taylor, Council Auditor. Good afternoon, Rory Diamond, District 13, the beach. Ron Salem, Group 2 at large. Nick Holland, at large, Group 3. Joe Carlucci, District 5. Raw areas, District 11. Will Lane in District 3. All right, and we do have, I believe, a late arrival in on the file from Ms. Pittman, so she will be joining us a little bit later today. So with that, committee members, we have three presentations today. Two of them were pretty short. One of them is going to be on the Durkeeville study by Mr. Ennis Davis. So first, we're going to go ahead to Ms. Eichner for your ADA presentation. Go ahead. If someone in the back could turn on the microphone. There it is. Unmute me. Thanks. Teresa Eichner, Jacksonville City Council. I'm here really quickly to let you guys know, since February, we've been working on bringing our website into compliance with DOJ requirements for ADA documents that are on our website. So legislative services and the legislative gateway that houses all of our legislation and all of the exhibits attached to that has a significant number of documents stored there. Those are non-compliant. That portion of our website will be coming down tomorrow for a period of about four to six weeks. While we work on getting a vendor that can provide a screen reader service that, once that comes back up, will bring those into compliance as the public uses that service. And so that is all in process right now. I hope to have that vendor in conjunction with IT under contract relatively soon, I hope by the end of this week. And so once that service comes down tomorrow, internal staff will have a username and password that will be able to access that information. But for the purposes of the public, all legislation will have to be records requested. So there will be a heavy, I would imagine, influx of requests coming in towards the end of this week. And so just wanted to provide that update to everybody so that they're well aware of what's going to happen to our website. So I'll open that up if there's any questions. Okay. I don't have anyone in the queue. I have a question. It's going to be, are we going to be able to access it like internally, but just not externally? Is that what I'm hearing you say? Correct. We're going to, so that there is no access outside of the city, right, for litigation purposes, it'll be username and password. So I'll circulate a username and password and how to access it so that anybody for staff purposes, auditors, OGC, and then any of the departments. But you guys and your ECAs will all be able to access it. Okay, great. We have one speaker in the queue, Council Vice President Howland, you're recognized. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Theresa, does this put us in any dangerous waters with respect to public records requests, or are you covered because we can access it on demand? No, we're going to be responding to all of those records requests. So, of course, all of the information is available to the public, and we'll be responding to those requests. We are going to post the agendas and meeting minutes in advance so that we will, there are things that are available on the website. We have five years' worth of information. All of our agendas and all of our agendas and meeting minutes and things that are compliant with ADA will be still published on our website. But there's a place where we're having difficulty getting exhibits and legislation that are ADA compliant. And so, again, that's the only portion of the website that's coming down, just so that we make sure that we're compliant. All right, we have no other speakers in the queue. Thank you, Ms. Eichner, and we also want to welcome Council Member Freeman. Are you here for your bill, sir? Okay, we'll bring that up to the front if you'd like, because I know it's pretty far back there. Okay, Mr. Davis, come on down. Good afternoon, Ennis Davis, 221 Hogan Street, Suite 237, here to give you a brief presentation update on the results of the Durkittville revitalization study that you approved in 2024, and just a brief update on where things have gone since then. I also have some copies that I can leave to you to look on your own time of the actual study. So if you want to contact us at the later date for more information, we can do that as well. So just briefly, as you remember, the study was commissioned to look at creating an implementation plan and vision study for the Durkittville community that would guide reinvestment within the neighborhood. The study was launched in August 2024, and over a course of about a 10 to 11-month period, it was completed. So launched with a start with data collection and existing conditions and really carry on down to a final report and implementation strategy, which here are some copies of that today. During that process, there were over 50 meetings that were held with community members, business members in the community, as well as stakeholders. Those took place as large community workshops, as well as field reviews, walking tours, and then individual one-on-one meetings with a variety of stakeholders. And really, these meetings guided everything that took place in the study process. So really, there was no need to create a community vision. The community has had a vision for over 50 years. The issue has been implementation. So we didn't spend too much time creating a plan to sit on the shelves and collect dust. You know, we've got closets in the building all full of those old plans. So we really want to connect that vision with about nearly $400 million in allocated projects within the study area through the CIP, as well as the TIP, as well as the TIP and some other entities that are doing work here. And really want to make sure that those funds and projects are being leveraged in a way that incrementally implements the community vision. During that process, a number of projects materialized with community members and from that CIP process. So one of the things we also wanted to do, because we do this work on a nationwide level, was also tap the local population and the community here into similar projects in other communities across the country, as well as the city, to make sure that we're building off best practices and incorporating that from an implementation perspective. In addition, one of the tasks that Council Member Peluso wanted included was more information around affordable housing, market rate housing, and what the housing looks like. So through the vision process and the workshops, the community members really came forward, and these are some of the concepts that they thought that respected the history, character, and culture of the neighborhood. There are some zoning issues from a market rate perspective. We looked at some things like a zoning overlay, for example, but Senate Bill 180 kind of restricts some of that. But we do have some things on the city's books that restrict market rate affordable housing development. So it's kind of captured the study as well. So hopefully one day there's something that can be addressed. And then we also looked at it from a market rate perspective. We worked in the past with the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. Jacksonville happens to be the largest concentration of Gullah Geechee descendants in the United States. And from an economic development perspective, that's about a $34 billion annual spend, and what is about one-third of tourists traveling to this region of the country to engage in activities around that culture, character, and history. So when you're eating those shrimp and grits, those garlic crabs, those types of foods, that mustard-based barbecue, that is tied into this area's history. We want to make sure that this plan took advantage of that because that creates an opportunity for the revitalization of Myrtle Avenue to allow that dollar to recycle economically within the neighborhood before leaving it. With that in mind, Myrtle Avenue became an early focus of how to take advantage of some of the projects already in the books, like the revitalization of J.P. Smallfield, the Emerald Trail, and some other projects that were coming in, as well as your facade grant program is already in the books, how to tap existing property owners, residents, and business owners into building what I call the three Cs, which are clustering, complementing uses with a compact setting, which creates economic synergy. Again, we're not saying anything that hadn't been done anywhere else, so it's always important to show where this has worked in similar communities with similar demographics across the country. So we brought that to the table with the community as well in the planning process. This is just three examples, but the report has a lot more. And then in the end, you know, to not be a study that sits on the shelf, we wanted to make sure there was an implementation strategy, that we're not walking away. And so that implementation strategy had about five community pillars. I want to read, you know, I guess economic development, housing, infrastructure and accessibility, cultural heritage preservation, the community resources were the five pillars that stood out. And so what that has brought us to today is, you know, the study was completed in January, July, June of 2025, but it did reveal a need for capacity building in the community's part. So there's a lot of things that the community has as its own resources that we want to leverage so they're not waiting or waiting for the city to do everything for the community. So we were able to use the study to leverage additional funding for the community from the Mellon Foundation. So what we're calling the Durkville Technical Assistance Study or work kind of kicked off in December of 2025. We expected to last year, May of 2027. Here's just a few project updates as I close out on this, though. But our focus of this is to make sure those short-term studies within the implementation plan, which is year one to year two, that those recommendations are actually implemented while we're building capacity with local neighborhood organizations to be stewards of the work moving forward to ensure that long-term implementation also comes into effect. Some of those projects continue coordination with the museum, the playground at J.P. Smallfield, overall renovation of the complex, we really see that as a cultural anchor destination for the community to build revitalization around Myrtle Avenue from the center end and allow it to expand out. As of now, the museum was expected to break ground later this summer with the October 2027 opening. So it is ongoing coordination we are having with the Parks Department right now. Some projects such as the pedestrian signal at the S-Line at Kings Road have been implemented. We've also done some coordination with FDOT. There are going to be three additional pedestrian signals that will be coming in to Kings Road to slow traffic down and make it safer for kids to cross the street. Those will be implemented over the next year or so. We identified several blocks of sidewalks. We've given missing sidewalk segments that were an issue in terms of infrastructure investment in the community. Six of those blocks have been filled with new sidewalks at this point. We expect more will be coming through a variety of different funding sources and different projects coming online soon. Cultural heritage and preservation was of utmost importance to the community. We have a large collection of Blodgett homes and Blodgett. Blodgett was the first African American, one of the first two black millionaires in the state of Florida. So when that great fire occurred, you tend to say, well, it was yin and it was yang during segregation. So some people make money on one side of town. Some people made a lot of money on the other side of town. So this neighborhood has the largest collection of Blodgett homes. We did write a grant for the Historic Preservation Office to do a historic survey, a national register nomination. It ranked pretty high, so we expect that $50,000 grant to commence later this summer. And it would take about a year to get through that process. We also are working with a number of property owners and business owners to tap into a variety of resources to renovate their buildings to make sure that the community can prosper in place. And so when it's a business like Skinner that's been around since the 30s, we want to be around for the next 100 years. So they actually have a historic landmark designation coming up pretty soon, next month or so, that we help them write. And then now we're currently working with a few businesses on facade grants as well as some other financing to upgrade their buildings to be online for new business and development when the ballpark opens. And then just to close it out real quick, we are also helping on an affordable housing perspective we've developed. We went ahead and took one of those housing plans, and we've contracted and billed out a full set of those plans that we're making available to property owners in the area. And we're actually going to be working with some of the major property owners there to do some initial building out of the ground on a few sites. And I think this might be, I'm coming to the end here, but we also continue to make sure we're hosting community educational sessions. So as we're doing this technical assistance, we want to make sure, you know, access information is powered. So this is all being documented. So this, what you see on the screen here, is a restorative justice circle that was held around Mount Hermon Cemetery about Emmett Reed Park about two weeks ago. Because we were able to secure an African-American cemeteries grant to do some GPR as well as pay for some memorial or heritage signage. So the community is really going to decide, like, what should that language be, where should it be in the park. And then that also is expected to launch this summer. It's going to take about a year to complete that grant process. So that's where we're at right now. But we are continuing to work within the community. We've been able to use the report and leverage outside, you know, resources outside the city of Jacksonville to, you know, keep things going with the community. So I'll just answer any questions you may have. And then I'll leave this set of studies for you to take at your own leisure. Okay, great. Thank you so much. That was a fantastic presentation. You can leave the studies up there, but we have a few speakers in the queue. Also want to welcome Council Member Gaffney and Council Member Peluso. So we'll go through the queue and stick around. Yeah. Council Member Landon, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. And through, Chair, to Mr. Davidson, this may be an auditor question. Thanks for the presentation. The one thing that jumped out at me early on is you had a bullet point that said $385 million in committed public investment. I was just wondering if I could get the details behind that. And I don't know if it's federal, state, local, or if it's what we've spent in the past as well as what we've funded going into the future. And it could just be an email to me at some time. I was just curious, just given the magnitude, that number I saw in the beginning. Yeah. And some of that's going to be in that report. But, yeah, I can shoot you an email to where it comes from. Council Member Salem, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. Through the Chair, to Mr. Ennis, the museum that you mentioned, it is my hope, once it's open, that that becomes a tourist attraction. And I didn't see anything in your presentation about attracting tourism to that area. I'm hopeful with the exhibits that we have there, we'll pull people off 95, come see the ballpark. It's one of three remaining in the country that are traditional African-American ballparks and with the museum. So I would encourage you to include that as we move forward. That's a big driver. So when I mentioned Gullah Geechee and the tourism market of $34 billion of people, one-third of tourists coming to this area to engage in that culture. Many times people don't know that culture, but you're here eating those crabs. You're here eating that mustard-based barbecue sauce. But this is a neighborhood where a lot of that generated. So, yes, we do, and not just the museum, we kind of view all of J.P. Smallfield. We really want to make sure it's interactive with something every day because it is the draw that's going to drive a lot of the redevelopment we're talking about with the community and create business opportunities. So, yes, the museum is grade A. We see people, you know, getting off I-95, coming down 8th Street. And, I mean, we've also had some conversations in the process with Groundwork Jacks to switch the location where they had proposed the Emerald Trail to 8th Street because, you know, there was some concerns around, well, you're going down the streets, we don't want you to go down. But if you're going to come down here, come down to the ballpark, come down to our shops, spend some money, and then get on out of here. So, yes, so tourism is a big draw of that around the cultural heritage history. And it's, clearly, with that new field, it's just not a baseball park. Oh, no. There are multiple events, as you know, that are occurring there, and I don't see the Parks Department here, but they've been very supportive of putting all sorts of events there. They've been great. They've been great in the process. Thank you. All right, Council Member Pelluso, you're right. Thank you, Chair, for recognizing me, and thank you, Ennis, for doing this report. I do want to thank Council Member Salem. He and I were co-sponsors of this bill. This is great work that got achieved from it. And special mention to Council Member Lannan and Council Member Howland, their kids both went to Stanton, so they know the Dorkyville neighborhood as well. So you've got a few Council Members up here that are pretty familiar with this community and this neighborhood. Say again? I thought your kids – oh, you did? Whatever. Okay, fine. So I'll try – then take Lannan out of it. Nick Howland is – yeah. Point being, though, this is a very special neighborhood to a lot of people. And, you know, for myself, I wanted to make sure that we gave as much credit and credence to the people who live there and have been remaining in place over the past several decades when a lot of wealth and a lot of people moved out. And this report is so comprehensive and so great. And I know you and I have talked about dollars that have already come into the area. I mean, those new sidewalks, they wouldn't have gotten done without your work and without Public Works being able to interact so well with you. So this report has really already done good work. On top of that, the community benefit agreement dollars that we all get, now because of this work, I'm able to already figure out where I expect to be spending the district's $7 at. So just a lot of credit to you. I know this is not the end of this. The implementation strategies need to be implemented. This will not be a report that sits on a shelf, at least so long as I'm up here. But thank you all for allowing Mr. Davis to come in here and speak. Hopefully you now realize why it was so important to me to make sure that he did this report because the community really showed up in mass a lot. And people still talk about it today. And we're going to be seeing some real work get done, especially when it comes to my CBA dollars on housing. Right? We've talked a lot about a home repair program and things like that. So no major questions, but thank you, sir. No problem. Thank you, Tom. All right. We have no other speakers in the queue, and I'll just add my final comments, which is you're doing a fantastic job with that area. And that area is special to me because I've played baseball at J.P. Small for four years and very, very familiar with Durkeeville. All the little, really it was just convenience stores that we would kind of go in before and after practice. And driving by all those homes, I'm really excited to see what you're doing. I mean, it really means a lot to me. So future support, count me in, and thank you for kind of spearheading this. We really do appreciate it. So with that, we have no other questions. Thank you, Mr. Davis. We appreciate you coming down and spending the time with us. And now we will go to Ms. Taylor for the 30-second report on clerk of courts. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Through the chair to the committee, we issued a report on the clerk of the courts area. We are required per the code to do an audit of the constitutional officers once every five years at a minimum. So we did that as part of that requirement. We looked at tax deed sales. That was the area that we focused on for this audit. Overall, we were looking at whether fees were properly assessed and collected, and the fees are paying for the advertising. These go to auction where individuals have not paid their taxes on their properties. So these are fees related to getting it to the auction. We looked at those and overall found that that was being charged appropriately and being collected, whether minimum bids were being calculated accurately. Those are based on the delinquent taxes plus interest plus half the value if it's a homesteaded property, half the assessed value. So we looked at making sure that those minimum bids were properly calculated and found that overall they were. And then the last part that we looked at was the distribution of sales proceeds. Was that generally performed correctly? And we had just a couple of issues that we noted when there are surplus funds. Surplus funds are more than the minimum bid that remain. A couple of the issues, a little over $7,600, was related to unique circumstances on forfeited deposits when the transaction wasn't completed. In other words, the person that won the bid didn't finish paying everything, and so it was an incomplete transaction, so to speak. So those were some unique circumstances. And then we expanded our testing based on that and found an additional 185 tax deeds that we looked at. There was undistributed surplus funds of $50,955, and those should have been sent to the state based on that. So just holding on to some of those surplus funds that need to go to the appropriate parties, and that's an issue they're addressing through their policies and procedures to address that, especially for unique circumstances. And then the two things that we find pretty much in every audit, which is SOPs, getting a final set approved and all of the necessary items within those SOPs, and then access level to the system. There were some individuals that were able to, could have adjusted fees, had access that was not appropriate. So overall, they're in agreement, and they're addressing these items, and we'll, of course, follow up on them within the next year or so to make sure that things are working correctly, and I'd be happy to answer any questions. All right. I see no one in the queue. Thank you for your presentation. And obviously, Ms. Taylor is available if anyone has any questions after this. So committee members, we will go ahead. Do we have any public comment cards? All right. We will go through public comment, and then we're going to go just kind of through the agenda to get everyone squared away on what we're kind of bounce around just a tiny bit and get everyone familiar with that. So with, oh. All right. First speaker, Carnell Oliver. He's not here. All right. And next speaker is Marcia Ray Wellington. Come on down. And then we have Felicia Mitchell, whatever it has been. Good morning, everyone. Councilman Gaffney. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Thank you to the chair. They're really here to speak on my legislation. I mean, y'all can speak now. I mean, so that's what they are. Let's let them speak. They can speak, and then we're going to go to yours. Okay. We can let them speak if you still wish to speak, and then we're going to go to Councilmember Freeman's bill first, and then we're going to go to your bill, so it'll probably be about 20 minutes. Just stand still. Give me like two minutes. Okay. Y'all come back. Go ahead. They can come back. Just stand still. Okay. So they're going to wait to speak at your bill. Got it. Okay. So that concludes the public comment. Thank you for your comments, ladies. We greatly appreciate it, I guess. All right, committee. Let's kind of go through the agenda real quick, just so we're all on the same page. Item number one is deferred. Two is deferred. Again, we are just going through the agenda. We are not actually taking action right now. So three is deferred, four is deferred, number five is up for action, six up for action, Councilmember Amaro, that is his CBA dollars, seven, amend and move, that's Councilman Layton's bill. He kind of prefaced that last two weeks ago. Then we have item number eight up for action, nine up for action, ten up for action, eleven and twelve are the DIA, DPRP, I believe, programs. We're going to go to those first after Councilmember Freeman and Councilmember Gaffney, so that will be numbers three and numbers four, and then number 13, action, up for action, that's a cleanup bill, fourteen, it's a 988 bill, fifteen, normal action, sixteen, action item, seventeen is deferred, eighteen, that is normally up for action, nineteen, this is going to be number one, this is Councilmember Freeman's bill on micro grants, and number twenty is on second reading, twenty-one is on second reading, twenty-two is up for emergency, twenty-three is going to be our second agenda item, that is an emergency, that's Councilmember Gaffney's bill, and then twenty-four and twenty-five are second reading, and then twenty-six is Councilmember Salem's bill, that's also being deferred, and twenty-seven is amend and move, and then twenty-eight, last page is on second reading as well, so let's go ahead and go officially now, we're going to officially go through the deferrals, and then move over to item number nineteen on page eleven, so here we go, item number one, twenty-twenty-four, six, twenty-seven is deferred, item number two, twenty-twenty-four, nine, sixty-six is deferred, item number three, twenty-twenty-five, three, sixty-one is deferred, item number four, twenty-twenty-five, seven, seven, five is deferred. Now, we will go to item number nineteen on page eleven, and we are looking for a motion on the amendment. All right, we have a motion to second on the amendment. Can someone please explain the amendment? Through the chair of the committee, the amendment will attach a revised B-T to place the funds into a separate activity. These dollars will carry over into fiscal year twenty-six, twenty-seven, so they need to be able to be identified. All right, thank you for that explanation. No one in the queue. All in favor of the amendment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. We move a motion to second on the bill as amended. Councilmember Arias, you're recognized. All right, thank you, Chair. Question to Mr. Freeman or to the auditors. I want to make sure that this is a carryover, so that means that twenty-six, twenty-seven, there will be an additional two hundred thousand, so it'll be a total of four hundred thousand. Is that what I'm understanding? Through the chair to Councilmember Arias, so this funding, if not spent in the current year, would just, whatever the balance is, would carry over, so I don't know that there would be additional unless the mayor or the council adds two hundred thousand dollars, but if whatever's unspent of this two hundred thousand would be available to JSEB within the twenty-six, twenty-seven fiscal year. Okay, and one more follow-up then through the chair to Mr. Peterson. Then during the budget process when we're going through this, that's when we can, as a council, as a body, allocate the two hundred thousand for twenty-six, twenty-seven, to make it four hundred thousand for them all together. Through the chair to Councilmember Arias, you could allocate whatever amount you wanted to for this purpose during the budget process. I just want to make sure we're keeping the same standard moving forward every year. It's not just a carryover. Thank you. All right, Councilmember Freeman, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for giving me an opportunity to speak. I'll try to be brief because we've gone through this exercise numerous times, so I really was just going to sit back and, if there were any questions, respond to any that you have. I want to thank those co-sponsors that have already joined in. The first thing that comes to my mind is we know access is the biggest barrier to many of our underserved population in our community. The next barrier, bureaucracy. We're filled with it in this city, and it's a shame. My goal in every piece of legislation that I file, not uncommon from all of you, is to help people. Oftentimes said, the biggest difference between Democrat and Republican is we all, we both say we want to help people. We just have two different paths to go in there. This is an example of this. So this $200,000 that you see today, that's for small businesses. Small businesses within JSEP is the same $200,000 that you saw last budget cycle. That was for nonprofits, which there was another $200,000 that were for kids that did coding. The bureaucracy was that each time I got told they don't have capacity to do it. Our job is to create policy. Administration side is to execute. So I can give you three examples of bills that I put forward. No telling how many each of you might have put forward. So I'll land with this. I just heard in neighborhoods that they don't have capacity forward. I have the minutes from our last JSEP meeting. I spent the last eight years building up JSEP to where we have an advisory board with members from our community that are JSEP's from various walks of life. I said, before I filed this bill, do you all think that we have the capacity and the ability to do it? They were excited. We had our administrator there. The chair asked the administrator and the answer was yes. It's right here, March 25th, I believe. March 25th, 2.30. But yet on Monday, I hear now we don't have capacity. Why? Why? So I would ask for your support. And then I would ask that we start tracking some of these bills. Because I heard yesterday it wasn't a priority of the mayor. So is that how, I mean, I love the strong mayoral form of government, but is that how it works? If it's not the mayor's idea, they don't do it. People suffer. Is that how we're going to operate as a body? And I would say no. And I would ask, Ms. Norris was in meetings with me. When I met with Ms. Figueroa, they revamped the micro-grant program, made it better. I signed off on it. I asked them at that time, please ask the mayor to put it in the budget. We'll fight to defend it. Zero dollars put in the budget this year. Still got $200,000, came up with an idea, and then we get told they can't do it in this cycle. Am I flustered? No. I'm hurt and disappointed that people are suffering. So I ask that you join me in trying to get this out so small businesses can work. Love what Councilwoman Norris said. It's another voice that's going to fight for it next year. So I'll close. I'll answer any questions. I look forward to hearing what the administration has to say on capacity, because I want to know what happened from March 25th to April 21st. Thank you. All right. Councilmember Diamond, you're recognized. Ooh, you're my hero today. I love it. Thank you for keeping up the fight. I want to be out as a co-sponsor, please. I do have a question, but for $200,000, do we get something, you know, shiny, flashy report? Ridiculous. I would like to note that you're not the only one who's facing this, but there's appropriations being done and things the administration purposely like slow walking it. I recommend you watch how slow things are going on the CIP if you're not in the favorite district. It's almost comical. I have some good data on that to release in the future, but happy to support it. Thanks for doing it. Councilmember Arias, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. I also want to be out as a co-sponsor and to Mr. Freeman. I'm just curious. I was in that neighborhood yesterday, but where is the lack of capacity? Is it through the OED department or is it through the grants department because, or is it both? Because I know for a fact, JSEP is ready to put these dollars to work. And so the fact is that we're not really having the capacity to do it from a grants perspective, yet the people are ready to work and we're having a bigger issue than the capacity. Is it truly a capacity issue or is it just a want, a desire issue? That's a problem we're having. $200,000, I said this last time, I don't think it requires that much manpower to put these dollars in the street. So I think it's more of a desire issue, not a capacity issue in this case. And I'm definitely co-sponsoring this. Thank you. Councilmember Freeman, would you like to respond? Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that's a valid question. It was Mr. Delaney here yesterday that made the comment and through the chair to Ms. Norris, would you care to a, does it kind of detail the capacity piece? I would, but I will defer to CAO Weinstein. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Mike Weinstein, city employee. It's easy to put money on the street. The effort is in the contract management. We have contract managers in KHA. We have them in public grants. We have them in OED. The concept that you're talking about, great concept, not effective, not much of an impact with microgrants. The issue that we have is that we will determine the mayor's staff that implements the program. You decide you want the program, you fund the program, no problem. But the dictating as to the staff that does it is where I think the line is. That's all. Go ahead, Mr. Freeman. Thank you. Through the chair to Mr. Weinstein. Thank you so much. Mr. Weinstein, did you get my call or text several months ago? Has your number changed by any chance? I'm sorry. You'll have to say it again. I'm sorry. Through the chair to Mr. Weinstein. Has your phone number changed? Because I've texted you and called you. I don't like, I don't like surprising my friends, and I never got a response back. And I would love to get on your calendar because I don't operate by surprising folks. You said that microgrants don't work. Can you? I didn't say they don't work. I said they're inefficient and don't have much of an impact. How do you define inefficient? Because if you're the chair, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Through the chair? Because the dollars have to be substantial enough to really make a difference. Many of these nonprofits, I mean, I had three years at KHA. I've done with this a long time. Can you hit pause there real quick? So were you at KHA? I'm sorry. One second. You mentioned the years at KHA. So you're referring to the $300,000 that was given out when those individuals lost their lives at Reigns. Is that the case, the sample size that we're referring to? Or you have other data that you're referring to? I'm sorry. Go ahead. Through you, so we'll have a conversation. I'm very familiar with microgrants. And I'm very familiar with the challenges that nonprofits have to meeting the obligations and requirements of city government. And if you're looking for impactful ways, you've got to make it so that they, one, can accurately deal with the deliverables to get reimbursed. And it has to be large enough that it has an impact. You want to do microgrants, do microgrants. I mean, that's fine. But again, our only concern is that we'll decide the mayor's staff that functions and deals with the contract management. You know, putting them out on the street, no problem. Managing all the deliverables, managing whether they do the insurance, managing whether they have all the things that they need to have to be adequately reimbursed is where the work is, not getting it on the street. All right. Mr. Raymond, do you have any other questions? I still don't think I got an understanding of inefficient and why microgrants won't work. But Ms. Norris, can you or Mr. I didn't hear the understanding of the capacity that Mr. Delaney was referring to yesterday? Is that the answer for the capacity is that they don't like it and they feel like they should choose who does it? Is that a definition of capacity or not, Mr. Chair? I'm just trying to get an understanding of the response to what I heard. Mr. Weinstein, do you have any advice? And while I got them there, Mr. Chair, I would also like to know why the money sent to IT for the dashboard. Why there was no capacity there, I guess. Or for the program that Ms. Figueroa and Dr. Harvey worked on together, they did that. Not me. They brought it to me. It wasn't my idea. And they got pushed out several months because of the collective. But I was told it was CBA at the time. So it just seems like the story is just getting convoluted. I would love Mr. Weinstein. We have friends outside of the community. They've told me, you need to sit down and have coffee with them. Because I truly feel like right now, anything that I was put forward is being slow played. And I don't mean to say that's a quote, but it might be a quote. Yeah. I'll end with this. The Journey was a perfect example. Journey board decided where the money was to go. KHA staff handled the contract management. Journey didn't have the capacity to do contract management. KHA did. That's all we want is the ability, without getting anyone upset, for us to go and manage it the way it could be managed. The idea of the program, totally up to you. So what we'll do is, because I can see, look, I think there's just a difference of opinion, a difference of methodology, or whatever you want to call it. It sounds like we put forward an initiative. We funded it. We were originally given the expectation that it was going to get carried out. It's getting slow played. It's not getting carried out. So what it sounds like to me is, Council Member Freeman has some additional questions. And I think you guys just need to sit down and figure this out, because this is not going to go away. This council is going to probably continue to support micro-grants in the future. I mean, we have questions being asked about it next year. So I don't know that we're going to solve all of this right now. But I'm going to come to Council Member Freeman to wrap it up. And I'm done. Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, because of Council Member Salem's bill, $25,000 is the minimum. So that's air quote micro. We're not talking, and that's why I referenced the $300,000 put on the street. That was $5,000. $9,000, $10,000, the Crime of Safety Task Force. That was the cumbersome act. Because of the actions of this body, $25,000, you do the math, how many times did I go into $200,000? Do the math. Eight times. Next, I want you all to know, I served on the Jacksonville journey, on the original board, when it was $31 million. When KHA actually had to come report to us, right along with the early learning coalition, right along with the sheriff, right along with the superintendent. Their job still was to execute when we came down with a policy decision. There was no, hey, we have to wait to see what Mayor Payton says. We have to wait to see what Mayor Brown says. We were compartmentalized. Now, obviously, we're in a different form of government here, but he used that example. I wanted you all to understand what the difference is from someone who served in that body for eight years. Thank you. Right. Yes, sir. We have two other speakers in the queue, and then I think we have a motion to second on the bill. So let's continue the discussion. Council Member Salem, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. Number one, I want to be a co-sponsor. Number two, through the chair to Council Member Freeman, has this $200,000 ever been spent? Is this the same $200,000 that seems to be going around for the last three years, moved? It's like a shell game. You don't know which of the three it's under. It's never been spent. Is that correct? Thank you. Through the chair, the Council Member Dr. Salem, the first $200,000 is now with the Youth Empowerment Committee that our president empowered. So that's been around for about three years, okay? And we're waiting to see now, based on what I've just heard, because if you came to our last meeting, that room had over 100 plus groups in there. I'm waiting to see if that's going to be executed. This $200,000 is from maybe your year as president that was put in, worked through, and then pushed out again. So that gives you a timeline. Yes, it's been a three-year journey, but it's two different sets of $200,000. So it's really $400,000 that we're talking about. Okay. Last comment. It's very disturbing to me to hear this discussion, that the Council is voting on something, appropriating dollars, and I hear the comment, we will decide. I hope you guys all heard that. We will decide how it's implemented. There's a lot of cooperation in that comment. That's disturbing. You know, people call about playing politics, deciding what's implemented by the Council and what's not. Disturbing, to say the least. Thank you. Mr. Chair. Councilman President Howland, you're recognized. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to let Councilman Freeman know I fully support him on this bill. Councilman Freeman has been on council for seven years. He's had an amazing career. He has a year left, potentially less than a year, and I can tell when he gets emotional and driven about topics like he has over the last seven years for workforce development and JSEB and now microgrants, and as a close colleague of his, I'll fully support him on this, and thanks for bringing it up. And if I could also be a co-sponsor, thank you. All right. We have no other speakers in the queue. You can please add me as a co-sponsor as well, and Councilmember Layton as well. Basically, everyone up here would like to be as a co-sponsor. Thank you for coming down, Councilmember Freeman. We do appreciate it, because, again, I think this is where that conversation needed to be had. We needed to understand not just about the bill, but zoom out a little bit and see, hey, how are we going to continue to push this forward in the coming years? Okay. All right. We have a motion and a second on the bill as amended. We did. Yeah, we have it. It's on the table. Motion and a second on the bill as amended. Open the ballot. Record your vote. We'll come to you. Six jays, zero nays. By your action, you've approved 2026-249. Councilmember Freeman. Hey, I just want to thank this body for listening, one, and thank you for the work, and I'll let the cat out of the bag. What I was told that this JSEB potentially was going to be for kids starting their business, small business owners. We had two present to us. One was in finance, and one was about self-esteem. Young man has a book out right now. He attends Raines High School. These kids are going to be the ones applying for these micro grants for small businesses, so when they hold it up, they're holding up kids. Some at Raines High School, some at First Coast High School, some of these other places. That's where they're holding up, hurting kids, hurting people. Thank you. All right. Thank you, and yep. Councilmember McAfee, are you on? One last question through the chair. Can I put this on Facebook? Yep. All right. We're coming to you next, Councilmember McAfee. So, Councilmembers, please turn to page 13. We're going to go to item 23. Item 2026-263. All right. We have a motion, a second on the emergency. All in favor of the emergency, signify by saying aye. Any opposed? The emergency carries. We have a motion, a second on the rules amendment. Can someone please explain the rules amendment? Through the chair of the committee, the rules amendment includes a CIP amendment to reflect the reduction in the CIP project for traffic calming district eight. Attach a CIP project information sheet as well. Also, attach a revised exhibit two, which is the term sheet and budget to correct a Scribner's error in the footing of some dollars on the budget schedule. And then the rules committee added item number three, which was to include whereas clauses identifying or explaining the funding source for this council district eight traffic calming project. It was originally part of council member Gaffney jr.'s strategic plan that was funded out of the 2324 budget. You might remember the mayor included 7.5 million in the budget. 250,000 came from that. And then part of one of his enhancement request was to add an additional 50,000. So it was all funded, all 300,000 was funded as part of the 2324 budget. Understood. All right. Any questions on the amendment? Seeing none, all in favor of the rules amendment, signify by saying aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. All right. We have a motion and second on the bill as amended as an emergency. Any discussion? Would we like to hear from the speakers now? Councilman Gaffney, you're recognized before we vote if you want. Yeah. Thank you to the Chair. This will be quick. This piece of legislation is transferred 25,000 from our strategic funds from like Phillip said, 2324. I'm transferring it to the Oysterfest. And I do have two individuals from the Oysterfest. Y'all can come up. I just want y'all to know more about the Oysterfest, what these funds are going at. So we got Ms. Wellington, if you don't mind, to the Chair. All right. You can introduce yourself. Name and address. Go ahead. Good evening. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Marcia Rae Wellington. And my address, 9767 Carbondale Drive, East Jacksonville, Florida, 32208. I currently reside in the Riverview area of District 8. Good afternoon. I'm Felicia Mitchell, co-chair for Riverview Collective Community Organization. I, too, reside in the Riverview area. And so we want to take this opportunity to make the body aware of Oysterfest. You can simply Google Oysterfest, and you will see all the success that the event has had over the last two years. Our first year, we had about, it was a little over 300 attendees. This year, we were able to document over 1,700. But this is not just a standard festival. This is a festival that's coming around in effort that's very important to our neighborhood. I purchased my home on the Riverview waterfront 2022. And that year, we experienced Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian brought the Trout River into my backyard and across the street over to my neighbors. After that year, our neighborhood has been challenged with nor'easters, king tide, so on and so forth. So flooding has been a major issue for us. My colleague and I, we both own properties, and we realized that it was necessary that we come together to establish an organization so that we can advocate for some of the infrastructure challenges that we're having in our neighborhood within the waterway, also with our business corridor. So our priority was to engage the community, get others involved so that it's not just the two of us doing this work, but it's a collective group. And our community organization, Riverview Collective Community Organization, the work that we're looking to do, that we're doing now and looking to do in the future, it's really a collective effort. So the Oyster Fest is a celebration of the work that we're doing in combination with St. John's Riverkeeper, as well as Jack's Conservation and FCAR. These organizations, we work together, we're restoring our oyster reef, and that, if you have questions, we can go into the science on that all day. But it's basically a natural barrier that will provide basically a living shoreline that will protect our shorelines over off the Trout River. It will also help with filtrations, and if we continue with the momentum that we've been able to gather from Oyster Fest, within five years, we're talking about being able to install 1,000 Oyster Posh modules, as well as seeing up to 150,000 added oysters to our shoreline. And what that does is basically within five years, that filters 50, I mean, I'm sorry, that filters over 5 billion gallons of water a year, and it provides concrete structure to help protect our waterfront properties from flooding. Any questions? Yeah, that's pretty much it. So I just want to let you guys know what you was voting for. So we had the event this past weekend, and as she stated, we had 300 individuals last year. We had 1,700 individuals this year in the event. It pretty much centers around educational opportunities. I mean, we had bounce houses, a lot of books, a lot like at St. John's Waterkeeper came out, Downtown Jack's came out, Downtown Vision came out this past weekend. We had individuals come from all different sides of town to learn more about the oysters and the waterways and things of that nature. I'm learning as I go, you know. So they brought this idea to me, I think, a couple of months ago. That's why we're so late. But it was a great event, and we'll make sure we invite you guys out next year. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you, ladies, for coming down. Congratulations on a successful event. And I believe we have no other speakers in the queue, and it has been moved and seconded as an emergency. So open the ballot, record your vote. 6-J, 0-A's. By your action, you've approved. 2026-263, as an emergency, as amended. All right. Congratulations, Council Member Gaffney. All right. Doing good work for the community there, sir. All right. Now we're going to go on to page 7. We're going to page 7, item number 11, 2026-218. Looking for a motion on the amendment. Motion and second on the amendment. Can someone please explain the amendment? Through the chair of the committee of the amendment, we'll place a revised redevelopment agreement on file to correct the minimum construction cost, also reflect the acquisition cost of the parcel, which is a qualifying cost within the total development cost, and then also update various ordinance code reference sections. All right. Council Member Landon, are you on the amendment? Okay. On the bill. All in favor of the amendment, signify by saying aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. Motion and second on the bill as amended. Council Member Landon, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. So I did not watch the, I guess it was neighborhoods when this failed, and I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I was going to fully support this. It's no secret I've been a critic to downtown cash completion grants, but I thought we approved this as part of the DIA budget process, and now this is simply the appropriation from DIA TIF funding only, correct? So through the chair to Mr. Peterson or Ms. Taylor, is there anything I'm missing? This is just, we approved the DIA budget. This is simply the appropriation on the back end for two budgeted TIF funded items, correct? Through the chair to Council Member Landon, I'll give you like 98% of that. This is actually just approving the agreement. The dollars are already appropriated as part of DIA's budget. You're absolutely correct. That was included in the 25-26 budget. The sum of items 11 and 12 are equivalent to what is in their budget for DPRP. This is your sign-off on the agreement and how the structure will work. That's a requirement of the DPRP program for the agreements to come back to Council. Through the chair to Mr. Peterson, we basically, through the budget process, said DIA, yes, you have permission to go work on these contracts within the bounds of what we approved. They came back, and this is the appropriation for that. So through the chair to Mr. Peterson or I don't know if anyone's on neighborhoods, I guess I can ask, excuse me? Oh, I apologize. Dr. Sam, do you know why it did not pass in neighborhoods? I'm just curious because, again, being a frequent no vote, I was just trying to get more background on why this failed in neighborhoods. It wasn't clear to me why they voted against it. The ROI is 0.53, but it's 0.5 for these types of projects is the bottom line. It's not general revenue dollars. It's dollars out of the DIA. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why some of the people voted against it. Through, chair. Thank you, Dr. Sam. Again, I'll be supporting these because we gave them permission through the budget process to seek out these deals, and now they're coming back for simply the appropriation. Yeah, and I'll just add briefly, I believe they even started as general fund dollars, and we put them into the CRA dollars. Correct. These started out as general fund dollars, and then the DIA said, okay, we can put this in the CRA. So even further kudos to the DIA if you're out there for doing these types of projects with your funding, not ours. Councilmember Salem, you're recognized. You're in the queue. I don't know if you want to speak to the bill. The other thing, I think there was some concern of the projects being small, but if you're going to revitalize some of these areas of downtown, you've got to do these types of projects, is my feeling. Thank you. All right. Councilmember Arias, you're recognized. Thank you, chair. Mr. Salem, yeah, that's a great point, and during the budget process, we talked about how we would rather see more smaller projects because that actually brings synergy to the community, especially in downtown. Larger projects are great, but we need more of these. I would rather see 10 of these versus one larger project, which is why we did the general fund to the CRA. But I think that it was just a little bit confusing yesterday, and I think most council members, hopefully, will change their mind come next Tuesday. I'll be supporting this as well. Thank you. All right. We have no other speakers in the queue. So the bill has been moved and seconded with the amendment already approved. So open the ballot. Record your vote. Five yays, one nay. By your action, you've approved 2026-218 as amended. Item number 12, sort of the companion going along with this one. Motion and second on the amendment. Mr. Peterson, can you explain the amendment? To the chair of the committee, this just places a revised agreement on file to correct the JSEP goal amount and then update those same ordinance code section references. All in favor of the amendment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. Motion and second on the bill as amended. No one in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Five yays, one nay. By your action, you've approved 2026-219 as amended. All right. Thank you guys for moving these around. All right. Now we're going to go. We already did one, two, three, and four. We're going to go to item number five on page three. Motion and second on the bill. 2026-185 is the bill that just got moved and seconded with no discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays, zero nays. By your action, you've approved 2026-185. Item number six, 2026-187. We have a motion and second on the bill. No one in the queue. Let's open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays, zero nays. What? Go ahead. Do you want us on number six, 2026-187? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd actually like to be added as a co-sponsor. If it was in my district, I would have also given some money for my CBA dollars. They do tremendous work, and I encourage you all to just do a tour if possible. Thank you. Okay. Did you want to say anything or no? Okay. All right. So, item number six, 2026-187 is passed. Number seven, item number seven, 2026-213. We have a motion and second on the rules amendment. Mr. Peterson, would you like to explain the rules amendment? Through the chair of the committee, the rules amendment would be to include the exact dollar amount of the September 30th, 2024 Act for Operating Reserves of $392,138,000, and then also include language explaining how to arrive at that amount. And then rules added yesterday, item number two, to include a operating reserve floor of the higher of 17% of the general fund general service district operating budget and the 930 Act for Operating Reserve balance of that $392,000. So, the higher of those would have to kick in. Anything above that amount would then be contributed to this unfunded incentive additional fund. On the amendment? Yes, Chair, on the amendment. So, we talked about this two weeks ago, and I'm completely fine with the amendment. We had talked about in finance committee how Council Member Salem is going to work with Mr. Peterson. So, I think this just provides another guardrail and helps us make sure that in any event, if our reserves did dip too low, that we still got a buffer between what would have been 7% versus 17%. So, completely good with this, and I'll be supporting it. All right. Gotcha. Yep. I remember kind of the discussion when you brought it up on second reading. Glad you guys came to an agreement. Council Member Salem and Council Member Landon are agreeing on financial things. I think we're good to go. So, all in favor of the amendment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. Motion to second on the bill as amended. Council Member Howland, you're recognized. Mr. Chair, I just want to commend Council Member Landon for the bill and Council Member Salem for the amendment. Good bill, good amendment. Taxpayers are better off. Thanks. All right. Council Member Landon, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. And to the committee, it was about one year ago. It was April of last year when, for the first time, I made the front page of a newspaper, the daily record, with Cashinson of Cliff in big, bold letters. We had $74 million outstanding at the time that we were expecting to pay next year. We've whittled that down substantially as we've had some things go our way with favorable budget adjustments. You've had a bill, Chair. Council Member Hall and I think a few others up here. The administration's even had a few bills putting excess funding against cash completion grants. Council Member Miller had the piece of legislation to where now when the mayor submits the budget, there has to be designated funding source for a cash completion grant coming due that year. And now this will help us in the future years as extra cash becomes available by ordinance. And 106 has said, okay, as long as your operating reserves are good, you can do whatever you want. If a council member, whoever wants to do something with the rest of that carryover or recapture money. Now it says operating reserves at a certain level are our number one priority, and then funding unbudgeted future financial obligations in the form of cash completion grants. It's really finance 101, right? When you get extra money, fund your known unbudgeted items at that point. So I'm proud of how serious we've taken these cash completion grants. I'm hoping that we never put ourselves in the position to where we would potentially have $74 million, which is a huge percentage of our discretionary portion of our budget. So I just hope we keep on making progress here. So thanks for your support. All right. Council Member Diamond, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to be out as a co-sponsor. It's a great bill. I'm sad that we need it. It's kind of like taking Ozempic. You know, shouldn't have had all the jelly donuts, but I'm glad that we're trying to take care of the problem. All right. And I'd also like to be... Okay. That was Council Member Salem, Council Member Hallam, Council Member Carlucci, Council Member Arias. I'll add it as a co-sponsor on the bill. And no, there's no other speakers in the queue. I'll just say this before we open the ballot and vote. Did we already vote on this? We haven't voted on it yet. No. The main thing I love about this bill is this is going to be here after we all leave. That is the biggest part about this that I just, I really, really appreciate. So thank you, Council Member Landon, for kind of having, you know, not only the short site, what stuff we've got to take care of now, but foresight for the future councils that now they're on a good path. And I really appreciate that. So no one else in the queue? Let's open the ballot. Record your votes. 6 yays, 0 nays. By your action, you've approved 2026-213. Item number 8, 2026-214. Motion to second on the bill. No one in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. 6 yays, 0 nays. By your action, you've approved 2026-214. Item number 9, 2026-215. Motion to second on the bill. No discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. 6 yays, 0 nays. By your action, you've Approved, 2026-215. Item number 10, 2026-217. Motion to second on the bill. No discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Did you? Okay. That was Council Member Diamond as a co-sponsor on 217. Six Jays, zero A's. And Council Member, and you know what? Let's just go ahead and add all of us on as a co-sponsor. That's just, this is what happens. All right, Council Member Howland, Carlucci, Arias, Lanin, and Ron's already there. What do you know? If you could just add us on all the rest of the, no. All right, we already did item number 11. We already did item number 12. Item number 13, 2026-220. We have a motion to second on the bill. No one in the queue. No discussion. Let's open the ballot. Record your votes. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-220. Item number 14, 2026-224. Motion to second on the bill. No discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-224. Item number 15, 2026-225. Motion to second on the bill. No one in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-225. Item number 16, 2026-226. Motion to second on the bill. No discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-226. Item number 17, 2026-227 is deferred, and it takes us to item number 18, 2026-248. Move. We have a motion to second on the bill. No one in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-248. Item number 19, we already took up. Item number 20, 2026-259 is on second reading. Item number 21, 2026-260 is on second reading. Item number 22, 2026-261. Motion to second on the emergency. All in favor of the emergency, signify by saying aye. Any opposed? The emergency passes. Motion to second on the bill as an emergency. No discussion. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six Jays, zero A's. By your action, you've approved, 2026-261. Item number 23, we have already taken up. Items 24 and 25, 2026-264-265 are on second reading. Item number 26, 2026-268 is being deferred. And item number 27, our last action item. We have a motion to second on the amendment. Mr. Peterson, can you explain the amendment? Sure thing. Through the chair of the committee, the amendment corrects the address of the packaging and logistics facility that will be constructed and then also places a revised agreement on file to update the base year for REV grant purposes to 2026. Corrects specific default language as it relates to the number of jobs that need to be created and then indicates that all previous REV grants with Johnson & Johnson are terminated in lieu of this one being approved. All right. No discussion. All in favor of the amendment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? The amendment carries. Motion to second on the bill as amended. Council Member Arias, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. I just have a question for Mr. Randolph, if possible. I'm understanding that this is for the creation of the packaging facility. They're not moving from Centurion to Pekin Road, are they? Are they going to still be in Centurion? Ed Randolph OED through the chair to Councilman Arias? No. They're actually going to be freeing up capacity in their south side location, so taking out the distribution and logistics element there and moving it to this new facility on the north side to allow them to put more manufacturing equipment in the south side location. Perfect. Thank you, sir. Council Member Landon, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. As the OED liaison, I just want to point out this one has, it's not gotten a ton of news, but this is absolutely huge. This is $550 million of investment, and a couple of things I just want to point out about this. It's in two separate parts of town, and it's parts of town that we don't always see a lot of incentive packages. Right on the border of myself and Council Member Arias' district, then up on the north side as well, 4.86 ROI, and it's rev grant only. Once again, OED is proving that we can do rev grant only deals, and there's also a job component. And frankly, it's not the job component that sticks out on this one as much as there's going to be a lot of employment, albeit temporarily, probably on the construction of a $550 million capital investment. So through the Chair, Mr. Randolph, another great deal that OED is bringing to us. So I appreciate your team's work on that. All right. Council Member Arias. You're recognized. Thank you, Chair. Quick question on that part, the construction part. Is there any kind of language that talks about the J-CET participation in this? Because I don't see it here. Through the Chair, Council Member Arias. Yes, there is an element in the Economic Development Agreement, and they have been meeting the J-CET requirement each time we've entered into an agreement with them. So there is a J-CET component. Thank you, sir. All right. We have no one else in the queue. All right. So let's go ahead and open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays, zero nays. Fire action, you're approved. 2026, 285. Item number 2026, 288 is on second reading. Council Members, that concludes our meeting today. This meeting is adjourned.