{"id":107345,"date":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107345\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:33:13","slug":"jacksonville-city-council-committee-votes-to-limit-officer-installations-to-city-owned-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107345\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council committee votes to limit officer installations to city-owned facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville City Council<\/a> Rules Committee<\/a> has voted in favor of legislation that would require Council officers to hold installation ceremonies in publicly owned buildings.<\/p>\n

Matt Carlucci\u2019s measure (2025-0869) emerged in the wake of Council President Kevin Carrico holding his own installation ceremony at a privately owned facility, which Carlucci believes could have discouraged people from attending.<\/p>\n

Carlucci called the bill \u201cself-explanatory\u201d before noting that the bill came to mind when a town hall meeting was held at a \u201cprivate place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern is having it somewhere where everybody feels comfortable,\u201d he said. \u201cI think a city-owned venue is the right way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican\u00a0Ron Salem noted that he had to have his at the Times-Union Center, but would have preferred to have it at the Ramallah Club.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have real mixed feelings about this,\u201d said Salem, a former Council President. \u201cI would like to give the President as much leeway as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former President\u00a0Terrance Freeman noted that he held his own installation at the city-owned Ritz, but had to fundraise more money because he was obligated to use the Ritz\u2019s caterer. He said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by the cost of Carrico\u2019s installation, which was more than $200,000.<\/p>\n

Former President\u00a0Randy White believes most future Presidents will be installed in city-owned facilities, but he doesn\u2019t want to \u201champer\u201d future Presidents in ordinance.<\/p>\n

Mike Gay, who has yet to be a Council President, likewise believes that Presidents should have \u201clatitude\u201d to hold installations where they see fit.<\/p>\n

Ken Amaro\u00a0acknowledged \u201cmerits to the bill\u201d but also worried about \u201ctying an individual\u2019s hands\u201d by putting this in law.<\/p>\n

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Carlucci said that an individual\u2019s hands being tied is not the issue, given \u201cthe office belongs to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amaro,\u00a0Michael Boylan, Gay and Salem voted \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freeman, White and Rules Chair Chris Miller voted \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill likely will be voted on by the full City Council on Jan. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville City Council Rules Committee has voted in favor of legislation that would require Council officers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55033,116,4040,118,117,5896,5898],"class_list":["post-107345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2025-0869","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-city-council","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kevin-carrico","tag-matt-carlucci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}