JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – City Council on Tuesday night gave its approval to Mayor Lenny Curry’s record-setting $1.5 billion operating budget for the city of Jacksonville.
“I want to thank the City Council for approving my 2022/23 budget at tonight’s meeting,” Curry said on Twitter. “This budget reaffirms our commitment to neighborhoods, infrastructure, and public safety. As we gear up for #HurricaneIan, we realize, now more than ever, the importance of these investments.”
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The final budget focuses on parks and development along the river and downtown, including the former site of the Jacksonville Landing. As part of his final budget, the mayor proposed a $25 million investment for a new park at the site.
Curry is also budgeting $15 million for Metro Park renovations, $7 million for extending the Riverwalk to Metro Park and helping to relocate the Museum of Science and History -- MOSH -- to the new Kids Kampus being developed across from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters downtown where the Fire Museum has been moved and where the USS Orleck will eventually be docked.