Guest column: Time for a comprehensive public finance solution
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With a host of advantages from climate and location to arts, culture, sports and recreation, Jacksonville is poised to realize its promise as one of the South’s great cities. A major impediment, however, is the city’s lack of an adequate and sustainable public funding structure.
Whenever Jacksonville’s future is discussed, funding is the elephant in the room. The city’s chronic capital and operational shortfalls have factored into countless issues of public debate, including education and public pension reform. That is why the Jacksonville Civic Council, a nonpartisan group of business and nonprofit CEOs focused on Jacksonville’s success, has made strengthening Jacksonville’s public finance structure a major focus of its strategic plan.
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Kent Justice co-anchors News4Jax s 5 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts weeknights and reports on government and politics. He also hosts This Week in Jacksonville, Channel 4 s hot topics and politics public affairs show each Sunday morning at 9 a.m.