Mike Gay
Context
Associated municipality: Jacksonville.
Council Member who chairs the Rules Committee (introduced as the Rules chair at the meeting). Abstained on budget bills where his businesses may do work for JEA. Spelling per auto-captions. Chairs the Rules Committee.
Issues
- Cultural Service Grants - voted against moving the grants above the line
- 2026-27 City Budget - abstained on two budget bills over business conflicts
- Committee Quorum Requirement - sponsor
- Jacksonville Transportation Authority Financial Condition - asked about bus stop trash
- Gateway Jax Downtown Mixed-Use Completion Grant - supported deferral
- Construction Trades Qualifying Board Appointment - chaired; spoke on life-safety governance
- Administrative Services Department Reorganization - deferred it for a notice meeting
- Middlebrook Preserve Naming - credited for helping with his district's neighborhood association
- Affordable Housing Development Loan Funding - seconded the funding amendment
- JEA Board Reappointment - chaired; valued the nominee's remarks
- Administrative Services Department Reorganization - chaired; wanted guardrails on equivalent experience
Log
- 2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Finance - Seconded the housing funding amendment after confirming down payment assistance money was untouched.
- 2026-10-20 - 2026-10-20 - Finance - Seconded the Ford subpoena motion (7-1).
- 2026-10-19 - 2026-10-19 - Rules Committee - Chaired the Rules Committee; let the JEA nominee speak, approved the reappointment 6-1, wanted guardrails on the experience-in-lieu language, announced he will act on the construction board bill next meeting, and deferred or moved the agenda along.
- 2026-10-19 - 2026-10-19 - Rules Committee - Chaired Rules; voted no on 2026-0659, 0757 and 0706.
- 2026-10-13 - 2026-10-13 - City Council - Moved to postpone the Scouting America Month resolution to October 27, announced the Rules-approved appointees, and (per the captions' garbled name) the preserve naming member.
- 2026-10-06 - 2026-10-08 - Finance - Sponsored the committee quorum change and supported the deferral.
- 2026-10-06 - 2026-10-08 - TEU - Credited by Carlucci for helping win neighborhood association support for the Middlebrook preserve naming; his quorum bill 2026-0709 passed this committee 6-1.
- 2026-10-05 - 2026-10-08 - Rules - Chaired the Rules Committee; ran the appointments, deferred the construction board nominee's bill and the environmental quality reorganization, and pressed JTA on repayment; his committee quorum bill passed 5-2.
- 2026-09-22 - 2026-09-22 - City Council - Announced Rules Committee appointments; voted against the cultural and public service grants amendments and abstained on two budget bills.