City Cuts Ties With Controversial Port Dredging Consultant, But Still Must Pay Him

Christopher Hong, Jacksonville Times-Union
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 5:46pm

Jacksonville City Hall cut ties on Thursday with a consultant criticized by the mayor for his radical views on race. It was mostly a symbolic move because the city must still pay him for a report he wrote on the economic benefits of deepening the St. Johns River. Herbert M. Barber received a $60,000 contract from Mayor Alvin Brown’s port dredging task force to analyze a past consultant’s predictions that the deepening project would create a significant number of new jobs. read more

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