• The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will make various improvements to each of its Skyway stops. Notices have been posted on each car and station, alerting passengers to any potential route or scheduling changes to come.
• City Council president Lad Daniels has been asked by Mayor John Peyton to sit on the advisory board for the Jacksonville Community Partnership for Literacy. Peyton is expected to make that announcement, and launch a new literacy initiative, later this week.
• Sean B. Granat, formerly of Tad Delegal’s Law Office, has been named an assistant general counsel with the General Counsel’s Office. He’ll handle personal injury in the Tort Department.
• Chamber vice president Jerry Mallot told a committee charged with reviewing the JEDC’s incentive policies that the City should focus on attracting businesses that export their services outside the county and import money. Mallot gave investment or insurance firms as an example. Retail and service jobs, Mallot said, do not bring dollars in, they simply recycle existing money.
• When Cornerstone goes looking for companies to recruit to Jacksonville, New York and Atlanta have been the most fertile ground. Those cities have been the top markets for business expansion or relocation to Jacksonville.
• Sports Illustrated is eying Jacksonville Beach for its Super Bowl headquarters. The magazine is interested in leasing the SeaWalk Pavilion for about three weeks.
• After months of languishing in Council committees, a bill that would have created new Council officer election policies has been pulled. Sponsored by Council member Art Shad, the bill would have established a Council president/president-designate system. Shad said that kind of system would make it easier for the Council vice president to prepare for a step-up instead of campaigning all year.
• Reminder: Pat Moran, chairman of the board of Southeast Toyota Distributors, is the scheduled speaker at Thursday’s Cornerstone Luncheon. Tickets are $35 for Cornerstone investors, $50 for Chamber members and $65 for non-members.
• According to First Coast Workforce Development, Duval County’s workforce is younger and better educated than the rest of Florida. The industries projected to add the most jobs locally are business services and retail.
• Good news for downtown commuters: the Main Street Bridge re-opened Monday morning.