New Endowment Grants for Jacksonville Filmmakers

Original title: ORD Making Certain Findings, & Apv & Auth the Public Investment Policy (PIP) of the OED to Add Endowment Grants to the Jax Fostering Filmmakers Grant Prog; Amend Sec 111.635 (Jax Film & Television Office Trust Fund), Pt 6 (Economic & Community Dev), Ch 111 (Special Rev & Trust Accts), Ord Code, to Auth Use of Trust Proceeds to Fund Endowment Grants; Replacing Former PIP as Approv by Ord 2016-382-E & Subsequently Amend by Ord 2018-370-E, Ord 2019-243-E, Ord 2022-372-E, Ord 2022-726-E, & Ord 2024-286-E (Sawyer) (Req of Mayor) (Co-Sponsors CMs Johnson & Arias) 5/12/26 CO Introduced: NCSPHS, R, F 5/18/26 NCSPHS Read 2nd & Rerefer 5/18/26 R Read 2nd & Rerefer 5/19/26 F Read 2nd & Rerefer 5/26/26 CO PH Read 2nd & Rerefer 6/1/26 NCSPHS Amend/Approve 5-0 6/1/26 R Amend/Approve 7-0 6/2/26 F Amend/Approve 6-1 (Diamond) 6/9/26 CO Amend/Approve 14-0 Public Hearing Pursuant to Ch 166, F.S. & C.R. 3.601 - 5/26/26

Record date · June 9, 2026

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What This Bill Does

This ordinance updates the city's investment policy to allow the Jacksonville Film and Television Office to provide endowment grants to local filmmakers. It also updates the city's special revenue and trust account rules to authorize the use of existing funds for these new grants.

Why it matters

This change creates a new funding stream to support local film and television projects, potentially boosting the city's creative economy.

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