Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan says she will comply with Attorney General James Uthmeier’s subpoena of records of a meeting she had with former Jacksonville Transportation Authority board member Megan Hayward.
And she will make them public afterward.
“We were asked for those notes, and the general counsel said they’re not public record because they are personal notes that were not shared,” Deegan said on “First Coast Connect.”
“And so we don’t want to set that precedent. But we will, of course, turn whatever we have over to the Attorney General, and then we’ll make those things public because that will be the proper process. But we just didn’t want to set a bad precedent for future Mayors and others when things aren’t public record. Bottom line is, we’re always happy to cooperate.”
The pledge to release the records comes less than 24 hours after one of her declared opponents in next year’s municipal election, House Speaker Pro Tempore Wyman Duggan, called on Deegan to do so.
The AG’s request for meeting notes is part of a larger probe into the independent agency’s records amid financial shortfalls and workforce reductions.
Hayward, who was appointed to the board by Deegan in 2023, purportedly was trying to warn the Mayor about financial issues under then-CEO Nat Ford, who is leaving JTA this month to take over Dallas’ mass transit agency. She has said she believes she was removed because of her opposition to the Ultimate Urban Circulator project, intended to bring...
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