JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- Today, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Blaise Ingoglia announced over $275 million in the 2025-2026 City of Jacksonville budget as “excessive, wasteful spending.” Since 2019, the General Fund Budget for the City of Jacksonville has increased by 61%. Last year, CFO Ingoglia identified over $199 million in the 2024-2025 budget as wasteful spending. CFO Ingoglia remains committed to providing transparency to Jacksonville residents so that they can hold their local officials accountable.

Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia said, “Once again, The City of Jacksonville has proven that they do not care about taxpayers. They only care about their large, bloated, taxpayer crushing budgets. Since Mayor Deegan took office, she has continued to recklessly and irresponsibly spend taxpayer dollars. Property tax reform is not only doable, it is necessary, and Floridians will be able to choose to keep more of their hard-earned money out of the hands of government come November.”

Greg Ungru, Americans for Prosperity, said, “The FAFO methodology has highlighted fiscal responsibility by making sure the local government works for the constituents they serve, not the other way around. Today, the numbers have shown that Jacksonville has continued to take advantage of the taxpayers. I want to thank CFO Ingoglia for his continued oversight to mitigate overspending in local government’s budgets.”

The Florida Agency of Fiscal Oversight (FAFO) exposed that the City of Jacksonville has excessively spent $623,438,960 over index in the past six years.

The General Fund Budget has increased by $840,108,313 between Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 and FY 2025-2026. The population increased by 10.49% or 99,588 people. For every family of four that moved to the city, the budget increased by $33,743.36.

The City of Jacksonville can decrease its millage rate by 1.49 mills without impacting any of the essential services provided to citizens. If Jacksonville city officials chose to apply this reduction, homeowners could save: 

• A taxable home value of $300,000 would save $447 per year.  
• A taxable home value of $400,000 would save $595 per year.  
• A taxable home value of $500,000 would save $744 per year.

CFO Ingoglia has uncovered over $2.7 billion in excessive and wasteful spending. CFO Ingoglia plans to continue to expose excessive, wasteful spending across the state as part of his role as Chief Financial Officer of Florida.