• City Council president-elect Lad Daniels won’t talk about who he intends to appoint to the seven Council standing committees or who will chair them. But he’ll make his decision by June 16. With eight new Council members and two who can’t serve as chair — Daniels and VP-elect Elaine Brown — the selection process promises to be a challenge.
• After spending several years located on the clubhouse lawn, Players Championship officials have decided to relocate the Benefactor Tent. At next year’s tournament it will be on the hill between the 16th and 18th fairways.
• Dan Edwards, vice president of communications and media for the Jags, will chair the Super Bowl Host Committee’s media services subcommittee.
• That large tent in Hemming Plaza? It’s part of the orientation for the new City Council members.
• Exterior renovations are underway at the Elks Building on Laura Street and there’s scaffolding lining the block. But that’s not the major concern for businesses in the area. All the parking spaces have been reserved for construction workers.
• Larry Hipsh is the new law clerk for Chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee Mamie Davis.
• Mayor John Delaney, City Council member Reggie Fullwood and State Sen. president Jim King will speak at the grand opening of the Beaver Street Enterprise Center Monday at 4 p.m.
• Edward Waters College is hosting its annual Presidential Celebrity Golf Classic July 21 at Mill Cove golf course in Arlington.
• There’s a new exhibition at Gallery L on the second floor of Independent Square. It’s by Larry Jon Davis and it’s called “Relative Reality.” It runs from Sunday through July 25 and there’s an artist reception June 12 from 5-8 p.m.
• Mayor-elect John Peyton got his first e-mail at City Hall and it wasn’t good. The resident wants to know why a car was towed off their property.
• Ever wonder why you can’t get a Lottery ticket at the new convenience store down the street? By law, they can’t get a Lottery machine until they’ve been open for a year. Scratch-offs, yes. Lottery, no.
• Big ceremony set for Tuesday at the future site of the new Jacksonville Children’s Commission Campus on A. Philip Randolph Boulevard. It’s at 10 a.m. and Toni and Andy Crawford will present a gift of $1 million to the Don Brewer Center for Early Learning. The new campus is expected to open by 2005.
• City Council members Elaine Brown and Reggie Fullwood will meet with representatives of the DDA and JTA June 5 at 2 p.m. in JTA’s boardroom to talk about the LaVilla Convention Center Subdistrict Plan.
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed its move to the Prudential building on the Southbank. About 60 Real Estate Division employees transferred this week from the BellSouth building.