subpoena request<\/a> by the 4th Circuit State Attorney Office related to his failed attempt in February to fill the JEA role with his boss, Boys & Girls Club Boys & Girls Club CEO Paul Martinez. Text messages show Carrico nominated his nonprofit leader to repay \u201ca big favor.\u201d<\/p>\nRules Committee members made a point Monday to reaffirm their faith and support for Wyse\u2019s nomination. <\/p>\n
Mayor Donna Deegan nominated DiSalvo last month to serve a second, four-year term on the JEA board. He was one of the seven members brought on in April 2020 to replace the board that was in charge during the failed attempt to sell JEA in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The decision to defer the bills came from Miller, not Carrico.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you all know, there\u2019s a lot going on. To say there\u2019s a lot going on with JEA right now is a gross understatement,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on internally with their leadership, with surveys, as well as from the City Council special committee perspective. There\u2019s even some things going on at other levels \u2014 and other agencies here locally regarding different actions, some appointments and other things that have occurred.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigation timetable\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miller said, for now, he intends to defer the nominations only until the next time the Rules Committee meets \u2013 scheduled for April 20. But that could change. Miller said he hoped employee survey results \u2014 one being conducted by the council\u2019s investigatory committee and the other internally by the utility\u2019s board \u2013 could help the council\u2019s decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But council member Ron Salem, who chairs the investigatory committee, said Monday that those survey results could be \u201cseveral weeks away.\u201d<\/p>\n
DiSalvo and Salem\u2019s relationship has deteriorated since February. DiSalvo says he\u2019s been frustrated with the council\u2019s efforts to interject itself in internal personnel issues at JEA \u2014 an independent city agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He would not allow Salem \u2014 who is council liaison to JEA \u2014 to speak at the utility\u2019s board meeting in February. He also declined to provide Salem information during a board meeting April 2 about the anonymous complaint that led to JEA\u2019s internal probe.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s trying to find out who exactly the complainant is. That\u2019s none of his businesses. That\u2019s an HR issue,\u201d DiSalvo said to new reporters about Salem\u2019s questions after the board meeting.<\/p>\n
On Monday, council member Michael Boylan praised Miller\u2019s deferral but urged him to hold it further if there was still uncertainty.<\/p>\n
There have been calls by others on council to hold off on Wyse\u2019s and DiSalvo\u2019s confirmation hearings until the investigations are over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn light of JEA governance issues, City Council should pause JEA appointments to the board until investigations by the State Attorney and Inspector General are complete,\u201d council member Matt Carlucci said in a written statement to Jacksonville Today on March 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Phil Perry, the city\u2019s chief communications office, said Monday that the mayor supports deferring the nominations \u201cin line with (council member) Carlucci.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Council Vice President Nick Howland, who could be elected the council\u2019s next president and inherit the council\u2019s JEA investigation, also supported Miller\u2019s decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on at JEA right now \u2014 several issues. I think none of them are insurmountable,\u201d Howland said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of drama right now. I think we should make decisions when we can cut the drama out and decide based on facts and evidence. Right now is not the time to take up these two nominations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As multiple investigations linked to JEA continue, a Jacksonville City Council member has hit the pause button on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43323,88005,116,4040,118,117,28983,501,115,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-221436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-distribute","9":"tag-government-politics","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-city-council","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jaxtdy2","15":"tag-jea","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221436","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=221436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}