• Lloyd Fountain is set to be confirmed as the new Chief of Public Buildings for the City. He’ll take over for Billy Watson, who resigned under pressure a couple of months ago.
• What’s the oldest item on the Council agenda these days? Remarkably, it’s a rezoning ordinance that only dates back to July of last year. Previously, bills would languish for years before finally being dropped from the agenda.
• OK, Florida Gator fans, start your engines. The season’s first football magazine has arrived and picks your team to win the Southeastern Conference and finish fourth in the nation.
• The immediate past Episcopal bishop of this area is a working bishop again. Steve Jecko, who retired three years ago as head of the Diocese of Florida, has accepted the post of assistant bishop in Dallas.
• The Chamber’s Downtown Council is looking for help to staff three beverage sales booths at Spring Music Fest on Saturday at Metro Park. Payment: a Council tee-shirt. Info: Bobi McGinnis at 477-1150.
• The Downtown Development Authority will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. at City Hall in Committee Room B.
• It’s definitely baseball season around the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville with the ACC tournament starting today but football is never far from southern college fans’ minds and Clemson’s local alumni group is giving them their fix. The Clemson Club will host Tiger head football coach Tommy Bowden tonight at 6 p.m. at the Amsterdam Sky Cafe.
• The City Council’s Land Use & Zoning committee will be busy the next few meetings. Thirty-six new rezoning ordinances and resolutions were on the Council agenda. Attorney Shannon Scheffer of the Office of General Counsel will be busy, too. She was assigned to all of them.
• Jay Plotkin, the No. 2 man in the State Attorney’s office here, is the president-elect of the Rotary Club of South Jacksonville.
Late Scores
American League
Los Angeles 4
Chicage 0
Southern League
Montgomery 10
Jacksonville 3