{"id":297471,"date":"2026-06-05T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:52:08","slug":"on-mondays-show-council-president-elect-nick-howland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297471\/","title":{"rendered":"On Monday\u2019s show: Council President-elect Nick Howland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city\u2019s commitment to nonprofit spending \u2014 from healthcare for the poor to programs for at-risk youth and families \u2014 will be thrown into stark relief as the city crafts a budget in the shadow of potentially massive tax cuts. It\u2019s a difficult posture for any lawmaker, but one that incoming City Council President Nick Howland will inherit ahead of a statewide vote on property taxes this November. We ask Howland how that fiscal reality might distill local priorities, and how it could affect projects likely to be decided on his watch, like a new Duval County jail and future Downtown incentives. We also ask how a series of investigations, including a State Attorney\u2019s Office probe of current council President Kevin Carrico, may be affecting public perceptions of the office. Have a question or comment for the council president-elect? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wjct.org\/show\/first-coast-connect\/2026-06-05\/mailto:firstcoastconnect@wjct.org\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">firstcoastconnect@wjct.org<\/a> or call us live on air at 904-549-2937 when we get rolling on Monday morning, starting at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Nick Howland, Jacksonville City Council president-elect<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a 46-year career in law enforcement, including three decades with the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office and 15 years as a school resource officer at Parkwood Heights Elementary, Officer Willie Perry got his flowers \u2014 and then some. A recent schoolwide sendoff included a children&#8217;s book, The Legend on the Sidewalk: A Story for Officer Willie Perry, written by the school\u2019s reading coach about Perry&#8217;s lasting effect on the students. A copy of the book was also provided to every student at the school. We talk to the author and \u201cThe Legend\u201d himself about the impact and rewards of his years of service to the Arlington school.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Amy Clark, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Legend-Sidewalk-Officer-Willie-Legends\/dp\/B0GRG4WTYW\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Legend on the Sidewalk<\/a>, reading interventionist at Parkwood Heights ElementaryOfficer Willie Perry, recently retired school resource officer, Duval County School Police<\/p>\n<p>Topics and guests subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s commitment to nonprofit spending \u2014 from healthcare for the poor to programs for at-risk youth and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-297471","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\/297471","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=297471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}