• The City was recently notified that through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Jacksonville has been allocated $26.2 million. The money is part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which set aside $3.92 billion. The City can use the money to establish mechanisms to purchase and redevelop foreclosed properties, demolish blighted structures, redevelop demolished or vacant properties, among other things. Jacksonville must apply for the funds by Dec. 1 or they will be reallocated.
• Thursday is National Boss Day, but if you don’t know how to celebrate it, do what the founder did: Treat it like a birthday for your boss. After all, Patricia Haroski chose the date in 1958 because it was her boss’s birthday ... who also happened to be her father.
• Tis the season...to be filling out applications. Shortly after the First District Court of Appeals announced it was taking applications for a seat vacated by Judge Ricky Polston, who was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Committee announced Monday that it is accepting applications for a seat soon-to-be vacated by Justice Harry L. Anstead in January. Anstead has reached mandatory retirement. Candidates can find an application at the Florida Bar Web site, www.floridabar.org. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., Nov. 7. One original and 10 copies must be submitted. The JNC also requests the application on CD.
• Hold on to your happy hour. InBev’s bid to purchase Anheuser-Busch(A-B) still has to receive approval from A-B’s shareholders who will meet in New Jersey Nov. 12 to vote on the sale. If the sale is approved, A-B shareholders will receive $70 for each share. A-B shareholders of record as of the close of business Oct. 3 are entitled to vote at the special meeting, which will be held at noon at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands hotel in Secaucus, N.J. A-B’s Board of Directors unanimously recommended approval of the sale July 13.