{"id":278710,"date":"2026-05-20T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278710\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:33:35","slug":"hb1038-could-end-ward-based-seats-shift-jacksonville-council-elections-to-all-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278710\/","title":{"rendered":"HB1038 could end ward-based seats, shift Jacksonville council elections to all at-large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I motion to adjournno, we can\u2019t do thatmotion to pass on the reports and go into closed session.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 1038 is taking center stage again at the Jacksonville City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>They talked about it for about two hours last night, a second time of a lengthy discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Council members are still not on the same page about whether to support the bill.<\/p>\n<p>HB1038 would move council elections to an all-at-large system, doing away with Ward-based representation.<\/p>\n<p>Some, like Councilwoman Mickey Smith and Councilman Jerome Willingham, oppose and argue that the current system works and ensures proper representation.<\/p>\n<p>Others, like Councilman Mike Yaniero, say they still need more time to form an opinion on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Council will revisit the topic at a future meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with News 12 as we follow this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I motion to adjournno, we can\u2019t do thatmotion to pass on the reports and go into closed session.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-278710","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\/278710","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=278710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}