• The City’s Public Works Department has moved its administrative offices from the Annex to the recently-acquired Ed Ball Building on Hogan Street. The director’s office and the real estate and engineering divisions are now on the 10th floor of the Ed Ball Building. All Public Works phone numbers will remain the same for the next 60 days. The new numbers will be posted on the City’s Web site — www.coj.net — in December. Other Public Works offices will relocate by early January.
• Clarification. In a story Monday we said attorney Tom Edwards is the treasurer of the Florida Trial Lawyers Association. Edwards is the treasurer of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.
• Florida Community College at Jacksonville is hosting its second annual Westside Community Fest Dec. 2, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at its Cecil Center campus. The event, sponsored by Inventory Solutions Logistics Corp., CMC Rebar, Eagle’s View Academy and Cecil Pines Adult Living Community, will have a theme of “Safety Awareness.”
• Add City Council member Art Graham to the list of those not happy about being included in a full-page ad that listed supporters of keeping Cecil Commerce Center and not returning it to the Navy. Graham released a relatively terse statement late Monday in which he reiterated his support of the Navy and its possible return to Cecil Field. The ad was taken out and paid for by a group called Neighbors Protecting Neighbors and Graham insists the group knew his stance on the issue.
• Tough to play tennis at the Wyndham these days. There are no fences around the hotel’s two tennis courts.
• Weed Golf Course Design has been selected to renovate the course at Selva Marina Country Club in Atlantic Beach. The private golf, tennis and country club was founded in 1958 and hosted tournaments that eventually became part of The Players Championship history. Golf course architect Bobby Weed is also remodeling the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club’s Lagoon Course.
• According to the latest newsletter from the Police & Fire Pension Fund, renovation to the old Haverty’s Building will be done in early 2008. The former furniture shop/YMCA will become the new City Hall Annex.
• There’s a new book about Jacksonville out. Turner Publishing Company out of Nashville, Tenn. has printed “Historic Photos of Jacksonville” and the book contains almost 200 photos of Jacksonville dating back to the Great Fire of 1901. Jacksonville native and University of North Florida Associate Professor of History Dr. Carolyn Williams authored the book.
• Local Fraternal Order of Police President Nelson Cuba was in Miami last month where he went to bat for the Miami FOP Lodge 20, which is currently in a stalemate with Dade County and has been without a contract for two years. Cuba helped organize a protest to draw attention to the Lodge’s plight. According to Cuba, the county says it doesn’t have the money to pay its officers, however it recently unveiled a new performing arts center Cuba says is “$100 million over budget.”