{"id":408592,"date":"2026-09-23T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408592\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:10","slug":"city-council-member-kevin-carrico-leaves-boys-girls-clubs-executive-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408592\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council member Kevin Carrico leaves Boys & Girls Clubs executive role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Carrico, the former Jacksonville City Council president who still represents District 4<\/a>, has stepped down from his executive leadership role with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida after nearly 11 years.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit organization announced Carrico\u2019s departure Wednesday in emailed statement. The 43-year-old served as the vice president of strategic initiatives for three years. Before that, he was vice president of operations for after-school and summer programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate Kevin\u2019s service and contributions to Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida and wish him and his family well in this next chapter,\u201d Blake Wilson, chairman of Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida Board of Governors, said in the statement.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Carrico told Jacksonville Today that he plans to announce his next steps on Monday.<\/p>\n

Carrico\u2019s year-long term as president of the City Council, which ended in June, included a scandal <\/a>and criminal investigation<\/a> involving his role with the Boys and Girls Club. The probe appeared to focus on the close timing between an attempted Nassau County land acquisition by a Boys & Girls Clubs affiliate and Carrico\u2019s nomination of his boss, Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida CEO Paul Martinez, to the JEA board.<\/p>\n

Days after prosecutors issued a subpoena of Carrico\u2019s records, he launched a special city council investigation into JEA in March. He accused then-JEA CEO Vickie Cavey of allowing a toxic work culture and racism at the utility. The committee\u2019s work did not find widespread personnel issues at the city-owned utility.<\/p>\n

Carrico\u2019s next step?<\/p>\n

Carrico is widely expected to run for reelection to council next year. His departure from the nonprofit comes days after Council staff announced that Carrico was named a trustee of the Spain-based World Law Foundation<\/a> His role with the nonprofit, which provides organizational structure for programs promoting the rule of law globally, is voluntary.<\/p>\n

Carrico told Jacksonville Today that during his more than 10 years at the Boys & Girls Club, the organization grew from 12 to 55 locations and its budget from $3 million to $30 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been one of the greatest privileges of my professional life to support the mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida and the young people and families it serves,\u201d Carrico said in a text message. \u201cAfter more than a decade with the organization, I am incredibly proud of what we accomplished together, grateful for the relationships built along the way and confident the Club will continue changing lives throughout Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I begin my next chapter, I\u2019m excited to build something new and look forward to sharing more in the coming days,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Carrico, the former Jacksonville City Council president who still represents District 4, has stepped down from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-408592","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\/408592","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=408592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}