• Your airport’s daily parking rates will rise a buck starting Sunday.
• Jags’ Coach Jack Del Rio will have a place to cool off after the hot summer practices. He’s getting a swimming pool at his new home.
• The annual City Council office shuffle won’t come until the end of this month but several are already getting ready. Sandra Henderson, the aide of President Jerry Holland, was packing boxes Friday. “I do this almost every year and this time I’m going to be ahead of the game,” she said.
• The South Jacksonville Rotary Club gives its annual “Good Government” awards today. Recipients: the mayor’s chief of staff, Audrey Moran, and JEA boss Walt Bussells.
• The Boardwalk Group’s Sharon Ashton called to say she doesn’t get the credit for having a contract with the JTA. “They’ve been working with the authority since 1999, long before I got here,” says she in response to Monday’s City Note.
• The Chamber’s Military Appreciation Luncheon on Thursday has over 600 reservations but there may be one biggie missing. The speaker, the commandant of the Marine Corps, may have to opt out due to the war commitments.
• In an effort to acquaint the eight new City Council members with each Council district, Council prez Jerry Holland is organizing day-long bus tours. The first tour is Thursday; districts 1 and 2.
• Speaking of Council, there have some interesting task forces created over the years, but this one may top them all. Thursday from 6-8 p.m., the Feral Cat Task Force will meet in Committee Room B at City Hall.
• Big meeting down at the Sports Complex June 20 with all the property owners to talk about the details of the June 26 Coliseum implosion. Not-yet-firm plans have the area ready for parking for the first Jags game Aug. 15. And, speaking of the implosion, the security perimeter has been changed again — it’s now at 800 feet.
• Italia D’Oro Coffee House is offering a new payment service for customers. Rather than wait in sometimes long lines, regulars can either run a tab with a credit card or pay for coffee a week at a time.
• One big problem created by the sand blasting at the Elks Building over the weekend: the dust got into many of the tenants’ locks and now keys won’t work.
• The Republican Executive Committee will meet next Monday evening at the Radisson Riverwalk. Social at 6:30, meeting at 7. The group will elect a new State Committeeman to replace the recently resigned Michael Munz.
• Two new stores are open in San Marco. The women’s clothing boutique, Luna, opened Saturday and Pick of the Crop, which sells clothes and accessories for women and children, opens Monday.