And so it goes across Florida. In Jacksonville, city leaders signal that they are finally ready to hire a chief resiliency officer in October – a long overdue decision from the last major city in Florida to make such a hire. Then the leader of a Special Resiliency Committee, Councilman Matt Carlucci, waived aside any discussion of halting a $484 million dredging project in the St. Johns River that makes the city more vulnerable to flooding. People need the jobs that a deeper river will bring, he says.