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Transportation, Energy & Utilities Committee - May 05, 2026

Jacksonville, FL City Council May 5, 2026 3 minutes
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Speaker

ongoing. I think a lot of that was a little bit with JEA about some of the maintenance of some things. So yes, those things are absolutely included because, right, it only makes sense to tag along with York, especially in the city, which is such a, you know, a large city with so many resources. So it absolutely does make sense. So that is a part of the conversation. Yes, sir. Thank you. No one else in the queue? I had one question. I noticed Kings Bay, obviously Kings Bay is in Georgia, but that it's not part of this study. Was there any thought into considering it? And I'll use the example. I was stationed at both NAS Jacks and Kings Bay while living in the same house. So a lot of our citizens are stationed up there, but still live in Duval County. And I know the Navy, I mean, the Navy calls it the tri-base area. So just wondering, and again, I realize it's in a different state, but just wondering if that was a part of the conversation. I believe they're covered by a military installation readiness review already. I believe they've had one done. But right, it is a kind of a little hinky with what the Department of Defense, how they kind of classify. Similarly, we couldn't cover the Coast Guard sector. That's so important here because they're under Homeland Security and not the Department of Defense. We've kind of done our best to still incorporate some of those items. But certainly it does bear mentioning that we should be at least looking at the Kings Bay military installation readiness review to see if there's any things that we can glean from from that to apply to ours. So. Okay. Yeah, I know the base commanders work together well, but it makes sense that we have to keep this state within the state, I guess. Right, right. I mean, we're going to do our best to try to now collectively, once we finish here in Northeast Florida, the final pieces are being done for the Pine Castle Bombing Complex range, which is in like Ocala, Putnam, Lake County, and also Bug Spring, which is a spring that's used to calibrate Navy sonar. So once that wraps up, we'll have a statewide initiative and we're going to try to work together to have the state prioritize for their funding the projects that are listed in military installation readiness review. So we collectively as regional councils, all the regional councils in the state are the ones that have done all these MIRRs. So we're going to kind of keep pushing and keep working to keep getting these things funded, whether locally or state or federal government. All right. Thank you. I have no else in the queue. So thank you for coming out today. And we look forward to seeing that a final report later in the year. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. To my colleagues, anybody else have anything before we adjourn? Then we are adjourned. Thank you.