UPDATE | On Tuesday, the Jacksonville City Council approved a proposal to use nearly $700,000 in emergency funding ahead of the game.
– The city of Jacksonville is preparing to host Saturday’s AFC wild-card game between the Jaguars and the Los Angeles Chargers.
“Hoping we’d have a playoff game, but we didn’t budget for this playoff game,” Jacksonville City Councilman Matt Carlucci said ahead of Tuesday night’s meeting. News4JAX was told this would be more money than the city usually budgets for security for a game — because of the crowd size. “It’s not only the security during the game, it’s before the game, it’s after the game, because, my gosh, if we win, you know, there’s going to be quite a celebration, I would imagine, and it’ll be fun to watch,” Carlucci said. “But that celebration, will need to be, you know, have proper security, as well.”“Last week was bonkers. It was definitely probably one of the busiest weekends we experienced as far as local fans and out-of-town fans,” said Jason Hunnicutt at Ocean Street Tacos.
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