Jacksonville mayoral candidate Donna Deegan says before tackling any other issue, the city’s next leader needs to fix what she sees as a long-standing issue of a lack of transparency at City Hall.

With five days until Duval County’s runoff election May 16, the former news anchor, The Donna Foundation founder and Democrat sat down with the Jacksonville Daily Record to discuss her strategies: prioritize and fund city infrastructure to promote private development; emphasize small business programs; bring more diversity to appointed boards; and try to break through hyperpartisianship in City Hall and work with the state government in Tallahassee.

Read the rest of this story at the Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.
The Daily Record’s interview with opponent Daniel Davis is here.