49% \u2013\u00a0 \u201cI have confidence in the Chiefs of JEA.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAbout 55% or respondents feel the utility is going in the right direction, and 57% said JEA encourages different points of view. Those were 17% and 15%, respectively, below the industry average.<\/p>\n
In the results above, the dark blue bar represents the percentage of positive responses of JEA employees. The light blue bar on the pages marked \u201cAll JEA\u201d is workplace survey data from comparatively sized utilities.<\/p>\n
In the next seven sets, the dark blue bar indicates responses from JEA employees in that department and under the named chief. They\u2019re compared to the light blue bar showing the total positive JEA employee responses.<\/p>\n
JEA officials will officially present the findings to the utility\u2019s board of directors June 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cJEA is analyzing the survey results, and senior leadership is developing action plans to address key employee concerns,\u201d JEA Public Information Office Karen McAllister told Jacksonville Today in an email Tuesday.<\/p>\n
JEA has been conducting the survey since the late 1990s. According to a utility spokesperson, the employee poll was conducted by the same firm who surveyed JEA workers in 2024.<\/p>\n
When will the investigations wrap?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear when JEA\u2019s second investigation by outside law firm Jackson Lewis will be complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carrico\u2019s charge authorizing the City Council\u2019s Special Investigatory Committee is set to expire at the end of June, the same time his one-year term as president ends.<\/p>\n
The committee subpoenaed Cavey and other JEA executives to testify about the workplace allegations. Cavey is scheduled to go before the committee June 22. JEA Chief Administrative Officer Jody Brooks and its former chief legal counsel, Regina Ross, testified June 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some city lawmakers, including City Council member Matt Carlucci, say the investigatory committee\u2019s probe into JEA personnel issues goes beyond the council\u2019s oversight of the utility.<\/p>\n
To date, the utility\u2019s former chief of staff, Kurt Wilson, has offered the only testimony that implicates Cavey in what he considered toxic workplace behavior. He alleged that she would pound the table and raise her voice during executive team meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brooks said June 8 that she had not witnessed this type of behavior. Ross said in her testimony that the JEA headquarters can be a high pressure environment but that she did not know of anyone quitting because of a demanding or toxic workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEA has released an employee survey, giving the first snapshot of morale inside the public utility since the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":872054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,293431,3188,723,96628,7310,293432,14626,354746,50,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-872053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-distribute","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-government-politics","tag-jacksonville","tag-jaxtdy1","tag-jea","tag-jobs-and-workplace","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116761984740988128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872053","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=872053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}