{"id":97427,"date":"2025-12-28T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97427\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:31:26","slug":"wyman-duggan-seeks-changes-in-jacksonville-aviation-authority-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97427\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyman Duggan seeks changes in Jacksonville Aviation Authority scope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The space race is on. <\/p>\n

Jacksonville officials are pushing for changes to the city\u2019s aviation authority<\/a>, and House Speaker Pro Tempore Wyman Duggan is carrying the measure.<\/p>\n

HB 4045<\/a> would alter the scope of the JAA in a number of ways, including making it \u201cresponsible for the economic development of Cecil Airport\u201d and \u201cactivities and projects that support workforce development and training, infrastructure investments, job creation, and technology innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal: \u201cestablishing and growing Cecil Airport as a regional, state, and national aerospace and related-industry hub in partnership with the economic development agency or agencies of the City of Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill further clarifies that \u201caerospace\u201d and spacecraft would be an integral part of JAA operations.<\/p>\n

City Council Vice President\u00a0Nick\u00a0<\/a>Howland\u2019<\/a>s\u00a02025-0693<\/a> initially proposed more sweeping changes, including a name change and reconstitution of the board, which proved to be controversial.<\/p>\n

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In exchange for pulling those potential changes<\/a>, JAA has agreed to establish an economic development committee with both JAA board members and city council members, with the goal of bringing an international route to Jacksonville to drive Cecil Aerospace growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The space race is on. Jacksonville officials are pushing for changes to the city\u2019s aviation authority, and House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51515,51516,116,51517,5434,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-97427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-hb-4045","9":"tag-house-speaker-pro-tempore-wyman-duggan","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-aviation-and-aerospace-authority","12":"tag-jacksonville-aviation-authority","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97427","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=97427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}