• The Gator Bowl will add seats for the Jan. 1 game, which means fans won’t have access to the upper terrace for Sunday’s Jaguars game with New Orleans. The additional seats, which are being installed by an Orlando company, will be similar to those use to expand the stadium for the Georgia-Florida game.
• Ex-Jaguars’ Coach Tom Coughlin is rumored to be in line to coach the New York Giants next year and this won’t calm down any speculation: he and wife Judy were in the Big Apple last week.
• According to Chamber of Commerce president Wally Lee, new carpeting, sound system upgrades and renovated bathrooms are part of a remodeling project at the Chamber.
• Downtown Vision, Inc. recently hired independent consultant Beth Browne to help oversee some of the “logistical challenges” of the Downtown Farmers Market. Browne has previously worked in business improvement districts in New York and Connecticut.
• At a recent meeting with the Northeast Florida Group of Sierra Club, City Council president Lad Daniels suggested that public conservation lands might serve as possible school sites in the future. NFP chair James Orth Jr. said the group could not go along with those plans, but would help “in identifying other lands in private ownership that may be available for future schools.”
• A quick change of endorsement by City Council member Glorious Johnson. An early supporter of Council presidential candidate Reggie Fullwood, Johnson, a Republican, released a statement Tuesday, saying she made a mistake and would be supporting Council vice president Elaine Brown instead.
• We mistakenly identified the Landing’s director of security in a recent City Note. His name is Robert Fernandez, not Ray as we said.
• A new study has determined Duval County is “the most cost effective” place to live in Florida. The study was put together by Enterprise Florida and the Agency for Workforce Innovation with the U.S. Department of Labor. It blends the average annual wage ($34,633) with adjustments for the Cost of Living Index. Other counties in the top five are Hamilton, Brevard, Orange and St. Lucie. The bottom five are Holmes, Levy, Franklin, Madison and Lafayette.