• Good news for the local media that covers City Hall on a regular basis. There’s a new copier in the media room in the mayor’s office (no one knows how old the previous one is) and the boxes of old pamphlets and calendars have been removed. The old copier will be sold at the City’s surplus sale.
• More good news. LandMar has been informed there are no mechanics liens on the Shipyards property. The lien search was done by Chicago Title Insurance Company. LandMar is currently working on the bulkhead and Northbank Riverwalk extension phase of the multi-use development project.
• Mayor John Peyton got an interesting DVD in the mail this week. Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, sent Peyton the church’s new DVD that explains how to better fund education and drug abuse programs. No word on if Peyton plans to implement any of the suggestions.
• City Council President Ronnie Fussell will sit in on his first Tourist Development Council meeting as Council prez next Thursday. The meeting’s at 10 a.m. in Conference Room A at City Hall.
• The DuPont Mansion at Epping Forest Yacht Club is featured in the current edition of BizBash Florida magazine, a trade publication for event planners. The article points out the mansion is “one of several Jacksonville properties on the National Register of Historic Places” and was the site of the Pepsi Rookie of the Year event during Super Bowl XXXIX.
• According to Police and Fire Pension Administrator John Keane, the Pension Fund currently has assets worth $1.1 billion.