• Though recommended for approval by the City Council Finance Committee, a resolution urging Mayor John Peyton to renegotiate a garage development deal downtown didn’t get enough votes from the Recreation, Community Development & Education Committee to send it to the full Council next week. By the time the votes were recorded Tuesday, committee chair Daniel Davis had gone to another meeting, Kevin Hyde did not vote, citing a professional conflict, and Art Shad voted not to support it. Shad said the resolution would do little more than tell Peyton how to do his job. “I already think he’s doing the best he can,” said Shad.
• The Jaguar wives will be at FanFest Saturday, selling their cookbook. They have an added attraction — players will be there, and the ladies will get autographs for you.
• WOKV AM-690 sportscaster Cole Pepper will introduce his own branded barbeque sauce next month. The big day is May 15 at Coggin Honda and you’ll be able to sample “Cole Pepper’s Blackjack Barbeque Sauce.”
• Those vintage cars in Riverside and Avondale Tuesday were part of St. Catherine Laboure’ Manor’s 25th anniversary celebration. Jags coach Jack Del Rio and his wife Linda served as co-chairs of the celebration.
• After plans to start a City Council charity bowling team fell through, Council aide Heather Patterson decided to raise funds the old-fashioned way, by asking for them directly. Patterson says all money collected will go to the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Northeast Florida. You don’t have to work for the Council to make a donation.
• Concerns about Article Five, the State’s proposed new structure for funding its courts, dominated the agenda at a recent meeting of the Mayors of the Florida Urban Partnership, which included Mayor Peyton. The mayors representing St. Petersburg, Hialeah, Ft. Lauderdale and Jacksonville agreed that the legislation as written could cost cities $21 million a year. They’re hopeful a Senate alternative will cut the cost down to less than a million annually. The mayors were also united in opposition to a House bill that would strip cities of some of their authority to control wireless phone signal towers.
• Neptune Beach officials concerned about the growing number of high-rise oceanfront condos in Jacksonville Beach are meeting this week to discuss an ordinance that would require a referendum for any project in that city over the 35-foot height limit.
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