At its May 6 meeting, the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee approved a series of ordinance and resolution items listed on the agenda. Most measures were approved with unanimous or near‑unanimous committee votes; several items were deferred for later consideration.

Recorded committee votes and available details from the transcript are summarized below. Where the transcript did not provide subject matter or motion text, the description is marked “not specified.”

Votes at a glance

- Item 25‑217: Approved by committee, recorded vote 8 yeas, 0 nays. Description: not specified in the transcript.

- Item 25‑251: Approved, recorded vote 7 yeas, 0 nays, 1 abstention. (One abstention was noted by Council Member Pittman.) Description: not specified.

- Item 25‑252: Approved as amended, recorded vote 7 yeas, 0 nays. Description: amendment attached to adjust appropriation exhibits; total appropriation unchanged.

- Item 25‑253: Approved as amended, recorded vote 7 yeas, 0 nays, 1 abstention. Description: amendment increased appropriation to include an in‑kind match of $462,000 and adjusted Exhibit 2 and Schedule M references.

- Item 25‑254: Approved, recorded vote 8 yeas, 0 nays. Description: not specified.

- Item 25‑256: Approved as amended (Neighborhoods Amendment), recorded vote 7 yeas, 1 nay. Description: lease and redevelopment provisions with WJCT; includes extension of a $30,000 annual disbursement tied to negotiated construction accommodations.

- Item 25‑259: Approved as amended, recorded vote 7 yeas, 1 nay. Description: resolution to forward a copy of the measure to the governor’s office and Department of Government Efficiency team upon adoption; other language changes made to align with executive order wording.

- Item 25‑261: Approved as amended, recorded vote 7 yeas, 1 nay. Description: amendment added a reference to incentive clauses and a milestone grant in the whereas clauses; committee noted no cash is leaving the city by the recorded action.

Multiple other agenda items were deferred by the chair or listed for second reading and were not voted on during this session. The chair also said he would introduce an ordinance for a property purchase at a future meeting and that a committee‑of‑the‑whole would be scheduled to consider purchase vs. swap options.

Committee members briefly discussed process matters and asked staff for follow‑up information (for example, staff said they will provide an annual scope of services related to the WJCT production work).