(12-06-2020, 08:11 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(12-06-2020, 08:04 PM)HolsterHusto Wrote: So apparently Jax City Council President Tommy Hazouri has unilaterally decided their will be no vote Tuesday and it will instead be in January.

The Jags and the mayor are not going to be happy at all.

He's correct to do so. His points are valid when he says there is too much at risk and the details too complicated to digest and vote for on such short notice. Give the city council, and all involved in the decision making process, time to carefully and thoroughly go through the information and formulate counter proposals that may put the city less at risk. 

This is a multi-year deal for development and construction. Why does it need to be settled right after a document dump and just before the holidays? It can wait a few weeks.

I haven’t really looked into this whole thing but as the news went off and “This Week in Jacksonville” came on, they had the head of legal for the Jaguars, a real estate developer, the CEO or President of DIA and a few other people on talking about this whole thing.  I felt it was a good opportunity to get all sides of this and to learn more of the situation.   I don’t live in Duval, so the taxes don’t affect me at all.  But it did give some light to the situation.  The jist from what I gathered was in fact the city trying to protect itself.  Almost seemed like all parties wanted to or interested in it.  Just more of a fact of whether it helped the city, would they get screwed in the long run and of course the money.  I also was under the impression that “time” was needed to digest it all.

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