With just days to go before a municipal budget must be passed, state officials are squawking about what they see as profligate spending in Jacksonville .

CFO Blaise Ingoglia told reporters on the Southside that Democratic Mayor Donna Deegan’s administration was devoting big bucks to questionable priorities. He said the budget, proposed to be $2 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, could be 10% leaner at least, with a haircut on property taxes to match.

Ingoglia’s Office, via the Florida Department of Government Efficiency initiative, took a look at Jacksonville’s books this Summer. The Spring Hill Republican offered a predictably scathing review, with a joke to start.

“I considered doing this presentation as a hologram. But I wanted to save taxpayers’ dollars,” Ing

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