{"id":377946,"date":"2026-08-22T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377946\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:10:09","slug":"this-week-in-jacksonville-voters-shake-up-city-council-deegan-names-new-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377946\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Jacksonville: Voters shake up City Council; Deegan names new chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK IN JACKSONVILLE<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0August 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">Jacksonville voters change the makeup of City Hall \u2014 and the mayor is changing her team, too. Donna Deegan joins us after Tuesday&#8217;s election, with a new member headed to City Council \u2014 and veteran business leader Darnell Smith back as her chief of staff. Then \u2014 show me the money. Council members are putting the mayor&#8217;s budget under the microscope, asking what taxpayers are actually getting for what they spend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS WEEK IN JACKSONVILLE Published:\u00a0August 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM Jacksonville voters change the makeup of City Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,152015],"class_list":["post-377946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-this-week-in-jacksonville-voters-shake-up-city-council-deegan-names-new-chief-of-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377946","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=377946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}