{"id":214210,"date":"2025-09-10T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:54:11","slug":"jacksonville-city-council-split-on-millage-rate-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214210\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council split on millage rate proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 After a split vote of 9 to 9 Tuesday night, The Jacksonville City Council will make a final decision on the city\u2019s millage rate later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">The mayor\u2019s office and city council have been at odds over whether to lower the millage rate, which is how the city calculates your property taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">One mill is $1 in tax for every $1,000 of your home\u2019s value, so if your home is worth $200,000, one mill equals $200 in taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The City Council Finance Committee proposed lowering the millage rate by one-eighth to give money \u201cback to the citizens,\u201d but Mayor Donna Deegan argued the cut won\u2019t really do much for property tax bills and could hurt the ability to fund key city services that citizens have said they want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">During a Tuesday night meeting, during a series of three votes, city councilmembers were split with a 9 to 9 vote on the mayor\u2019s proposed millage rate increase. The final vote was 10 to 8 with council member Ron Salem changing his vote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Now, a final decision will be made at the Sept. 23 meeting. At that time, members will take up the Finance Committee\u2019s amendment to reduce the millage rate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cFamilies across Jacksonville are stretched thin, and they deserve property tax relief,\u201d said City Council President Kevin Carrico. \u201cThis Council has the chance to put $13 million back into taxpayers\u2019 pockets this year and nearly $70 million over the next five years. On September 23, with the full Council present, we can reject higher taxes once and for all and deliver real relief for Jacksonville families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After a split vote of 9 to 9 Tuesday night, The Jacksonville City Council will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,8314,3188,723,7310,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-214210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-duval-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177276405600846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214210","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=214210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}