• Daniel Davis, has decided to create three special committees to look at the proposed stormwater, garbage and JEA franchise fees. Council members Richard Clark, Denise Lee and Kevin Hyde will chair the committees, respectively. Davis has asked the committees to submit their findings at Thursday’s budget hearings.
• The next meeting of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission is set for Thursday at 9 a.m. The commission usually meets in City Council Chambers. However, due to the extended budget hearings, they’ll meet in Conference Room A in the Council offices.
• Mayor John Peyton has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Florida League of Mayors. His two-year term ends in August of 2009.
• Next month’s Art Walk stop at the Main Library will feature a look at Consolidation with an art display called “Images of Consolidation.” The exhibit will be on the third floor and run Oct. 3-31. On Oct. 6 there will be a panel discussion at the library titled “The Politics of Consolidation.”
• The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens will host a ribbon cutting ceremony next Friday for its new attraction, The Gardens at Trout River Plaza. It’s at 10 a.m.
• Correction to a Wednesday City Note. The ground breaking for the new Student Union at the University of North Florida is set for 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19.
• According to real estate analyst Ray Rodriguez of the Real Estate Strategy Center of North Florida, Inc., the best performing submarket in the area this year so far is Springfield, where home prices are up 22 percent over last year. The worst is San Marco, where home prices have dropped 25 percent.
• Florida Community College at Jacksonville will dedicate its new Cecil Center Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. The school’s board of trustees and President Dr. Steven Wallace are hosting the event.
“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald