• IBM sales manager Wyman Winbush has been elected chair of the Florida Community College at Jacksonville board. Vice chairs are developer Dave Miller for Nassau County and paper company exec Mac McGehee for Duval.
• Want a skybox for the Jaguar games? Only one left.
• St. Vincent’s is having celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme as its headliner for a fundraiser at Ponte Vedra next month. Prudhomme will appear at a luncheon and they’ll also bring in chefs from fancy places for a dinner.
• Developers of The Shipyards will announce their plans next week. They say that “guests will have the opportunity to be among the first to see LandMar’s vision for this new community.” It’s Wednesday morning at The Shipyards.
• The Cystic Fibrosis folks are having a “singles” fundraiser, so expect a letter from your favorite bachelor asking for a few sponsorship bucks.
• Rick Arcusa of the Rick Arcusa Band has been tapped to sing the National Anthem at Saturday’s day of faith celebration at the Arena.
• Mayor John Peyton will be the guest speaker at Wednesday’s National Association of Industrial and Office Properties meeting at the Omni. Registration starts at 7 a.m. followed by a 7:30 breakfast.
• Speaking of Peyton, he’s been in Canada this week with wife Kathryn who is attending a conference for physicians.
• Tallahassee lawyer Jaimie Ross of 1000 Friends of Florida left a 20-minute presentation for City Council members on the Affordable Housing Task Force to download onto their computers Tuesday. The flash presentation included interviews from across the country on various ways to “create balanced residential communities in Florida.” Members invited Ross back for more discussion.
• Tuesday’s meeting at City Hall concerning Downtown parking chaired by Council members Suzanne Jenkins and Elaine Brown was, as Jenkins put it, “derailed,” when a small group of Downtown merchants took most of an hour to voice their opinions about parking availability and enforcement. At one point, Jenkins had to gavel the meeting back to order. Jenkins said that while she appreciated that the merchants closed their shops and probably lost business in order to attend the meeting, she is looking for answers, not more debate. She also said that she has been postponing legislation concerning the issues due to, “lack of consensus.”