Days after a City Council committee sliced a public-private fund for affordable housing from her proposed budget, Mayor Donna Deegan called the action a “big mistake” that was motivated by politics.
During an Aug. 13 appearance on the WJCT News talk show “First Coast Connect,” Deegan also slapped back at Council member Rory Diamond’s proposed legislation to reduce the mayor’s discretionary spending to $99,999 from $500,000. She called the idea “absolutely insane” and said it would bring the city to a “screeching halt.”
