City-department management
Set performance standards and deadlines, coordinate departments, assign executive responsibilities, require written reports, conduct management reviews and establish customer-service standards, subject to Charter and ordinance requirements.
Government efficiency and accountability
Establish internal performance reviews, fraud-prevention procedures, auditing initiatives, transparency policies, contract monitoring, waste reduction and departmental accountability systems within executive authority.
Advisory councils, task forces and working groups
Create advisory bodies that do not exercise legislative power for veterans, seniors, youth, homelessness, public safety, economic development, cybersecurity, identity theft, neighborhoods, arts and health.
Cybersecurity and identity-theft protection
Strengthen authentication and resident-data protection, train employees, review vendor security, create incident reporting and an identity-theft response team, and publish periodic cybersecurity reports.
Veterans programs
Coordinate executive-branch veteran services, outreach and departmental contacts; improve lawful City hiring outreach; and work with federal, state and nonprofit partners.
Youth initiatives
Coordinate youth councils, internships, apprenticeships, summer jobs, mentoring, service inventories and departmental reporting, with new funding subject to Council approval.
Senior services
Coordinate senior assistance, fraud and identity-theft education, accessibility, emergency preparedness and service navigation.
Homelessness coordination
Form an interdepartmental response team, coordinate City services and properties within law, require progress reporting and work with nonprofit, state and federal partners.
Neighborhood services
Set faster response standards for potholes, drainage, trash, code issues, parks, streetlights and permitting inquiries within existing budgets and law.
311 and customer-service reform
Create response-time goals, complaint tracking, dashboards, escalation procedures, satisfaction measures and service-performance reports.
Open-government policies
Publish executive performance information, contracts, spending data, departmental reports and meeting information beyond statutory minimums where legally permissible.
Ethics and conflicts policies
Adopt internal procedures for gifts, disclosures, conflicts, procurement contacts, lobbying contacts, revolving-door concerns and ethics training consistent with law and the City Ethics Code.
Equal-opportunity administrative policies
Govern City employment and executive administration within existing law; substantive ordinance changes remain a legislative matter.
City workforce policies
Set workplace, training, attendance, telework, supervision, safety and employee-service standards subject to civil service, bargaining agreements, budgets and ordinances.
Appointed-official management
Appoint authorized executive officials, direct their activities and remove officials serving at the mayor's pleasure; appointments requiring confirmation still go to Council.
Salary administration
Set and adjust salaries of executive-branch appointees within Council-established pay grades and ranges.
Departmental reporting
Require daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly reports on finances, projects, contracts, permits, public-safety coordination, infrastructure and service calls.
Performance dashboards
Publish KPIs for projects, permitting, spending, response times, infrastructure conditions and other executive services.
Contract administration
Strengthen internal review, monitoring, documentation, vendor performance and compliance within the Procurement Code and authorized contracts.
Purchasing standards
Add administrative controls, reviews and executive approvals within existing law; a normal executive order cannot waive procurement law.
Small-business outreach
Provide vendor education, procurement outreach, information and technical assistance through lawful existing programs.
Economic-development administration
Create prospect-response teams and faster internal reviews for businesses considering Jacksonville; incentives and new expenditures may require legislation.
Permitting reform
Use concurrent review where lawful, performance deadlines, permit-tracking dashboards and management review of delayed applications.
City-property management
Improve maintenance, security, accessibility, energy efficiency and use of City property within existing authority and appropriations.
Public-building coordination
Use authorized executive coordination and planning for public buildings, consistent with the Jacksonville Ordinance Code.
Parks administration
Set standards for park maintenance, cleanliness, programming, inspections, accessibility and use within current law and funding.
Environmental administration
Improve recycling in City operations, energy and fleet efficiency, stormwater administration, resilience planning and environmental reporting where authorized.
Infrastructure project management
Create project-review teams, milestone reports, cost controls and dashboards for authorized and funded projects.
Capital-project oversight
Require review of delays, overruns, contractor performance and change orders within statutory and contractual authority.
Grant management
Require grant searches, coordinated applications, grant inventories and compliance monitoring; acceptance or spending may still require Council action.
Federal and state coordination
Designate officials to coordinate with Florida, federal and neighboring governments and military installations.
Public-private coordination councils
Convene advisory representatives from business, nonprofits, education, health, veterans and the community under applicable Sunshine and public-record requirements.
Administrative reorganization
Coordinate or reassign functions only where authorized; an executive order cannot create or abolish departments, transfer an entire department or invent legal powers.
Budget-management procedures
Require spending justification and executive budget review, prepare the proposed budget and use only limited transfer authority allowed by the Charter and Code.
Spending controls
Require enhanced executive approval for administration purchases or hiring where consistent with appropriations, contracts, civil service and law.
City branding and service marks
Establish lawful executive guidelines for City agencies' use of registered City service marks.
