Jacksonville city leaders now face a $300 million budget hole after voters passed Amendment 3. City leaders say they won’t cut police and fire, but nearly every other city service could feel the squeeze.
Action News Jax sat down with the mayor’s chief of staff, Michael Weinstein, to ask what is and isn’t off the table in a week that brought swift reactions and concerns about trimming the fat after Amendment 3 passed.
The need to cut the city budget is becoming glaringly clear. City Council auditors estimate Amendment 3 will remove about $300 million from Jacksonville’s property tax revenue, and property taxes make up nearly two-thirds of the city’s $2 billion general fund…