City Council President subpoenaed in state investigation over JEA Board text messages<\/a><\/p>\nInstead of voting on whether or not to approve Wyse’s appointment Monday, Chairman Chris Miller said the panel will wait for more information before making any decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was smart, prudent for us to tap the brakes,\u201d Miller said. \u201cLet\u2019s slow down a little bit and not effect changes of leadership, until we know a little bit more about what\u2019s going on. Until we know more from those surveys, we know more from the investigation that\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The investigation stems from allegations that JEA CEO Vicki Cavey fostered a toxic work environment. Cavey has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
City Council is in the process of implementing anonymous employee surveys aimed at gathering more insight into workplace conditions. However, those surveys have not yet been completed, and officials say it may take time before results are available.<\/p>\n
Councilman Joe Carlucci said the delay reflects the number of moving parts in the ongoing review.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of what processes we\u2019re also undergoing right now,\u201d Carlucci said. \u201cWe\u2019re undergoing a lot of different processes, there\u2019s a lot going on with our investigation, JEA\u2019s board, this, that and the other so. I appreciate the extra time, it may take more than one cycle though. We just don\u2019t know until things continue to unfold. But I\u2019m going to be using that time to get the answers to the questions I have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Committee members emphasized the delay is not related to the qualifications of any nominees.<\/p>\n
The committee is expected to revisit the issue at its next meeting scheduled for April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rules Committee decided to defer appointments to the utility’s board until at least the next meeting cycle.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-221484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221484","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=221484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}