A document obtained by the special City Council committee investigating JEA shows top utility executives could have gained the most from a controversial incentive plan that would have triggered multi-million dollar payments if JEA had been sold.
City Council member Rory Diamond called the document “shocking and disgusting” and said JEA failed to turn it over last December when council members first began digging into the incentive plan, according to WJCT News partner The Florida Times-Union.
The investigative committee posted the document on its website as it also pressed the city’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Stephanie Burch to agree to a sworn interview about her time as a lead negotiator for JEA’s abandoned attempt to strike a deal for a sale.
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Burch agreed Wednesday to do an interview under oath. Burch is not a JEA employee, but she served for one month as head of the negotiation committee used by JEA to handle talks in late 2019 with bidders seeking to purchase the utility.
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