{"id":179059,"date":"2025-08-27T06:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179059\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:43:27","slug":"mayor-donna-deegan-to-host-town-halls-on-embattled-city-budget-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179059\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Donna Deegan to host town halls on embattled city budget \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan announced that she will be hosting another round of town halls throughout September to discuss the city budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Her initial budget proposal has faced significant changes from the city council finance committee, including a move to reduce property taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Last-minute amendments also seek to ban the use of funding on certain efforts, including diversity, equity and inclusion, and services for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/controversial-amendments-threaten-derail-city-budget-negotiations\/ODIFT2BMQNAPVM5ZV7HIOZRYOE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/controversial-amendments-threaten-derail-city-budget-negotiations\/ODIFT2BMQNAPVM5ZV7HIOZRYOE\/\"><b>Controversial amendments threaten to derail Jacksonville city budget negotiations<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">There will be six meetings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>September 2: <\/b>Mandarin Senior Center, 3848 Hartley Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32257<\/li>\n<li><b>September 4:<\/b> First Coast High School, 590 Duval Station Rd., Jacksonville, FL, 32218<\/li>\n<li><b>September 11:<\/b> Ed White High School, 1700 Old Middleburg Rd. N., Jacksonville, FL, 32210<\/li>\n<li><b>September 15:<\/b> Fletcher High School, 700 Seagate Ave. Neptune Beach, FL, 32266<\/li>\n<li><b>September 17:<\/b> Riverside High School, 1200 McDuff Ave. S., Jacksonville, FL, 32205<\/li>\n<li><b>September 18: <\/b>Fort Caroline Middle School, 3787 University Club Blvd., Jacksonville, FL, 32277<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Each meeting is free to attend and begins at 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan announced that she will be hosting another round of town halls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-179059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115099376421698943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}