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Raul E. Arias, Jr.

Council Member District 11 Jacksonville, FL
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Joint City Council & Duval County School Board - Apr 09, 2026 April 9, 2026 · 44 statements
at 24:25

For the CTE, for the exit program on CTE for all the students, is there any kind of financial literacy class that they have to take, such as how to do a business plan or obtain an EIN or LLC?

at 25:13

Because I want to say that even if you're just going for a barber to just be a hairstylist, for example, you should still have the financial literacy part of it, even if you're not in the business program.

Finance Committee - Apr 07, 2026 April 7, 2026 · 82 statements
at 6:51

Yeah, absolutely. Councilman Arias, you're recognized. All right. Thank you, Chair. As some of you already

at 7:03

the Tree Commission, as well as Ms. Shannon McGillis, to be here to answer any questions you may all have.

Duval DOGE Special Committee - Apr 07, 2026 April 7, 2026 · 81 statements
at 23:45

So I'm not sure where we're going to be at, where we're going to land, but I will tell you this, that before you even consider increasing any kind of fares, I think you need to do this same project again next year to make sure we keep on reducing without tapping into reserves before we actually increase fares.

at 24:04

My only worry is that some of these contracted services will decrease and some of the contracts will actually diminish because if I was one of your contractors and you told me, hey, this year we're not going to...

Land Use & Zoning Committee - Apr 07, 2026 April 7, 2026 · 89 statements
at 1:08:42

Yes, but is there like a hundred and twenty percent, like meaning like it's way over capacity

at 1:11:34

The problem is that we've either overdeveloped in that area or not really improved the roads,