{"id":359581,"date":"2026-08-01T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:10:08","slug":"jacksonville-to-raise-police-protection-surcharge-17-over-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359581\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville to raise police protection surcharge $17 over two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013\u00a0In a unanimous vote, Jacksonville City Council passed an ordinance that will raise the town\u2019s monthly police protection surcharge by $17 over two years- an increase of just over 48%.<\/p>\n<p>On August 21, the fee will go from $35 to $47 per month for Jacksonville residences. In July 2027, the fee will increase to $52 per month. The police protection surcharge was first established in 2018 at $20 per month to provide funding for police services.<\/p>\n<p>At the first reading of the ordinance at a council meeting on July 7, Councilor Andrea Thompson said she\u2019d received emails from Jacksonville residents asking about the reasons behind the steep increase. \u201cIt may behoove a member of our staff or a member of our council to write something for our water bill newsletter or for the Jacksonville Review, really explaining the very serious thinking behind this,\u201d said Thompson. <\/p>\n<p>The surcharge will last through the 2028 fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;font-style: italic;\">\u00a9 2026 KOBI-TV NBC5. All rights reserved unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013\u00a0In a unanimous vote, Jacksonville City Council passed an ordinance that will raise the town\u2019s monthly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5949,116,4040,118,117],"class_list":["post-359581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jackson-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-city-council","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359581","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=359581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}