• Our note last week on the Holbrook law firm moving to Independent Square wasn’t right. They’ve been there since the building opened and just renewed their lease.
• Kathy Harper has left the CVB and the search is on for a new p.r. person.
• Back in government: Christina Langston. You’ll remember her from the JEDC and she tried the private sector; she’s now working with the City’s Special Events Department.
• According to the City’s Human Resources Department the City doesn’t have a formal salary range for its vacant library director position. Instead, the Library Board and mayor’s office will decide how much to offer candidates based on their experience. The last director earned $116,500 a year.
• The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is hoping Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman can help cure its financial ills. Parisian department store and The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony are hosting a $75 per-person champagne reception Aug. 5, featuring actress Jane Seymour and benefiting the JSO.
• Results of a recent customer satisfaction survey showed the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department earning about an 80 percent approval rating from citizens who came into contact with the department.
• City Council member Sharon Copeland may be temporarily sidelined with a broken ankle, but she’s far from being without physical assistance. Council president Elaine Brown, who is finishing some lengthy physical therapy of her own, has offered to pass down her crutches and cane.
• Former City Council member Matt Carlucci thinks Landon Avenue should remain open. “It was something that neighborhood brought to me a number of years ago, but I said I couldn’t support it,” he said. “I just don’t think it’s a good idea to divert all that traffic to the other roads and I really don’t like the idea of reducing access to and from any school, especially during an emergency situation.”
• Legislation to re-evaluate various Riverside street improvements was unanimously recommended for approval by the Council’s Transportation, Environment & Energy committee this week. The full Council will vote on it Tuesday.
• Jacksonville Port Authority spokesperson Robert Peek said there’s no environmental restrictions on the land the port has identified to build its new cruise ship terminal. But he said the land will have to be rezoned. The land at the southern tip of the City’s Timucuan Preserve is currently zoned for residential.