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Speaker 1: Mayor, how are you feeling.

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Speaker 2: I feel pretty darn proud and excited. This is a

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Speaker 2: historic day for our city. And I'm just as I

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Speaker 2: said to the council, this is what we can do

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Speaker 2: when we all rowe together and we focus on a

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Speaker 2: goal together. I mean, look at how fast we pushed

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Speaker 2: that through. This was a very a long term and

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Speaker 2: very intentional effort between our administration and the Jaguars. We

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Speaker 2: had a lot of things buttoned up. Counsel did a

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Speaker 2: great job of evaluating it and offering their input and amendments,

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Speaker 2: and we're there. And I just think, you know, as

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Speaker 2: I've said so many times, Jake, you let things go

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Speaker 2: too long, and you can they can fall apart, right

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Speaker 2: They didn't let that happen.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very grateful. You feel like it's like a

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Speaker 3: reset with counsel.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's your narrative. I have never felt like

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Speaker 2: I needed a reset with counsel. I have felt like

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Speaker 2: I have worked well with this council from the time

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Speaker 2: that I came in the door.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 2: We are not always going to agree. That's what ends

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Speaker 2: up making for good governance. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: you end up with some things.

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Speaker 3: You want and some things you don't necessarily want, but

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Speaker 3: it's probably a better thing.

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Speaker 2: So so I'm grateful to this body, and I think

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Speaker 2: they did a good job.

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Speaker 3: What's the one word you used to describe this day

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Speaker 3: for this moment, monumental? Monumental? I think it's generational progress?

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Speaker 4: Is there a lot of personal pride being a Jags fan,

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Speaker 4: growing up a jagspan to be the one who helps

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Speaker 4: push it through?

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 2: I'm still pension myself that I get to do this job.

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Speaker 2: You know, It's it's why, you know, when when we

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Speaker 2: first started to talk, we were both so focused on

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Speaker 2: making sure that we did this as well as fairly

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Speaker 2: and as quickly as we could possibly do it, because

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Speaker 2: we knew how important it was.

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Speaker 3: We had a timeline.

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Speaker 2: And and we wanted the Jaguars to be able to

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Speaker 2: get to that owner's meeting in October and be able

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Speaker 2: to present a good agreement and and and I'm just gosh,

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited as a Jaguars fan, as a Jacksonville fan,

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Speaker 2: I'm just thrilled.

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Speaker 5: You're about a year in, Uh, you know, you're about

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Speaker 5: a year in now, do you feel like this is

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Speaker 5: your almost like you're legacy this early on steel.

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Speaker 2: You guys have been saying that since I got elected

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Speaker 2: that this was going to be the legacy thing, and

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Speaker 2: I will no doubt say it is a generational accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: I hope we have many more legacy items to attend to,

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Speaker 2: and I think that Community Benefits agreement is one of them,

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Speaker 2: and I hope we have a lot more of that.

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Speaker 2: As I said when I when I was elected, my

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Speaker 2: goal is to lift every portion of this city, and

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Speaker 2: I think that we can do that with this agreement.

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Speaker 2: I think we'll I think the stadium is a big

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Speaker 2: piece of that, but I think we can do it

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Speaker 2: by completing the rest of that CBA. So that and

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Speaker 2: and I hope we have much more to accomplish.

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Speaker 5: Last week I walked through some bols of Otte East

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Speaker 5: and saw some pretty terrible conditions for some of the

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Speaker 5: people who live out there. I don't know what was

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Speaker 5: promised to them in the past. They said things were promised,

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Speaker 5: But are those people who live in those conditions going

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Speaker 5: to get a portion of that money?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely they are.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've heard You've heard Mark Lamping say they're going

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Speaker 2: to get seventy five million dollars from the Jaguars. You

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Speaker 2: you look at what this is proposing, and I think

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Speaker 2: the reason that our portion is so powerful is ours

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Speaker 2: comes up front and that theirs follows through and sustains

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Speaker 2: that effort. And I thought one of the public speakers

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Speaker 2: tonight made a really good point that when we consolidated

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Speaker 2: this city, it was it was the investment from the

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Speaker 2: other parts of the city that have now been disinvested in.

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Speaker 3: That created this city the way it is today.

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Speaker 2: And it's time to invest in those areas and to

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Speaker 2: pay that back.

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Speaker 3: Mayor. I know that this was just one layer, So

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Speaker 3: what's next? What do you mean, what's next? I know,

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Speaker 3: like this was the approval, so I know will what

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Speaker 3: will be next in general?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, hopefully as soon as council gets back from

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Speaker 2: their break on the seventeenth, we'd like to start looking

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Speaker 2: at the rest of the CBA. I would like that

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Speaker 2: to be passed separate from the budget as part of

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Speaker 2: this agreement. That's how we get matching funds, that's how

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Speaker 2: we move together to make sure that this is honored

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Speaker 2: for the entirety of the contract.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I'm going to be working with counsel

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Speaker 3: on now. Could that number fluctuate.

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Speaker 2: Well, sure, council has a lot of control over the

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Speaker 2: dollar amount, but my hope is that we can pass

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Speaker 2: the entire three hundred million.

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Speaker 5: One hundred nineteen million as part of the CBA for

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Speaker 5: the Jaguars and then seventy five for the East side.

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Speaker 5: Is that correct?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's in the legislation right now is just over

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen million dollars. And while the dollars

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Speaker 1: are specified, our original commitment, which we are going to

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Speaker 1: stand by and advocate very hard for, is that seventy

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Speaker 1: five million to that one eighteen goes to benefit the

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Speaker 1: out East neighborhood. And that's that's is the exact same

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Speaker 1: amount that was in the total CBA package. As far

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Speaker 1: as the Jaguars are concerned, Mark.

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Speaker 4: I think we started looking at this whole stadium thing

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Speaker 4: deal back in twenty sixteen, right, So is it almost

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Speaker 4: hard to.

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Speaker 3: Believe how far you've come and how long it's been

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Speaker 3: and now that it's finally done. Well, it is.

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Speaker 1: And the reason we started on it so early is

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Speaker 1: that we studied those cities that had problems with their teams,

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately there have been cities that have lost their

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Speaker 1: NFL teams, and they generally all have the same thing

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Speaker 1: in common. It's a smaller market, the team doesn't have

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Speaker 1: at least tying them to the city, and they have

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Speaker 1: an unresolved stadium problem. And SHOT's commitment from the very

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Speaker 1: beginning was to do everything that we could to ensure

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen to Jacksonville. We started early on. We've

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Speaker 1: been spending a tremendous amount of time and resources, particularly

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Speaker 1: over the last four years, and you know, we're thrilled that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we could turn that goal. It was a

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Speaker 1: goal that Shod had and that the community shared to

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Speaker 1: keep the Jaguars here in Northeast Florida for generations to come.

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Speaker 1: This evening, we've we've turned that goal into a reality

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Speaker 1: thanks to the mayor and her team. So the next

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Speaker 1: step is obviously take it to the owners in October, anticipating.

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Speaker 3: That going smoothly, or are there any.

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Speaker 1: Issues that the league wants to Well, there's you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions and generally the league really

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Speaker 1: can't take these things up in their entirety until there's

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Speaker 1: no contingencies. So we leave here tonight now with no

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Speaker 1: contingencies as it related to the stadium deal. We've obviously

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Speaker 1: been keeping the league up to day throughout this entire process,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of questions, but we're satisfied that

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Speaker 1: we will be able to effectively answer those questions and

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Speaker 1: look forward to getting this finalized in mid October.

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Speaker 4: I want to clarify one hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 4: that you guys were going to match for the CBA.

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Speaker 4: Is that no longer going to be one hundred and

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Speaker 4: fifty million as it's currently run into this deals one

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Speaker 4: hundred nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Now, what we did when the city had to pause

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Speaker 1: on their one hundred and fifty million dollar commitment, what

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Speaker 1: we said was we will honor our original one hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars and then we will match one dollar for

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Speaker 1: every three dollars that the city funds from zero to

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Speaker 1: one fifty. Okay, they've put in fifty six. One third

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Speaker 1: of that is eighteen million, So that's how we've gotten

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Speaker 1: up to one hundred eighteen million, and we hope that

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Speaker 1: the city gets to the full one fifty, which would

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Speaker 1: mean that we would go from one eighteen up to

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Speaker 1: one fifty.

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Speaker 4: And that would come when that discussion on the rest

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Speaker 4: of the dollars come in July.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a real incentive for the city to

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Speaker 1: fund the entire community Benefits agreement, which you know, make

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Speaker 1: no secret about it, we wish they would have been

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Speaker 1: packaged together in their entirety. It became apparent that it

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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen, and now we're going to advocate as

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Speaker 1: hard as we can, along with the mayor, to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we get back to that full three hundred million.

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Speaker 5: Can the Jaguars grow to be as successful as they

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Speaker 5: want to be without the East Side growing to its

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Speaker 5: full potential? Do they need to coexist to reach both

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Speaker 5: of their full potentials.

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Speaker 1: Well, we've said many times, even going back to twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen on the first State of the Franchise address when

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Speaker 1: we first brought up the stadium issues, that we've always

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Speaker 1: felt and one of the reasons we're so focused on

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Speaker 1: development downtown is that we've believed that as far as

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Speaker 1: downtown goes, so will the Jaguars. So this isn't just

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Speaker 1: total benevolence. We know that there's more people living downtown,

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Speaker 1: more people working down to more people visiting. The Jaguars

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Speaker 1: will benefit from that, as will the rest of the community,

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Speaker 1: and clearly then that is just north of the stadium

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Speaker 1: is a critical part of that