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The budget and $494.7 million in Capital Improvement Plan spending is backed by the gas tax and $171.8 million in federal American Rescue Plan funding.
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry’s proposed $1.41 billion fiscal year 2021-22 general fund budget includes $494.7 million in capital spending bolstered by a jump in ad valorem and state tax revenue and federal coronavirus-related aid.
In a speech to City Council on July 20 at City Hall, Curry credited his 2015 city pension reform legislation, the recent 6-cent local option gas tax increase and federal American Rescue Plan funding for allowing the city to boost spending a year after the pandemic.