• The full City Council meets again Tuesday for the first time in a month and there is a slew of presentations on the agenda. Mayor John Peyton will talk about his planned budget press conferences, Police and Fire Pension Fund Administrator/Executive Director John Keane will submit his proposed operating budget and JEA Board Chair Cynthia Austin will present JEA’s operating and capital budgets, among others.
• Speaking of Council, Art Shad is up for appointment to the board of directors of Downtown Vision Inc. And, Council members Kevin Hyde and Johnny Gaffney are up for appointments to the Jacksonville Zoo’s board of directors.
• One more on appointments. Timothy Miller, Logan Rink, Andy Sikes, Monty Selim and Jim Bailey are up for second terms on the Downtown Development Review Board. Their terms would expire June 30, 2011.
• Look for School Board member and former State Rep. Stan Jordan to possibly toss his hat into the ring for State Sen. Jim King’s seat.
• Council member Denise Lee is sponsoring legislation that would honor the late Don McClure.
• Attorney Diana Johnson has joined the Public Defender’s Office. The Florida Coastal School of Law graduate was formerly a program attorney with the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program of the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
• In other Public Defender news, Matt Bisbee has joined the office as its Public Information Officer. He can be reached at 630-7350 or [email protected].
• The U.S. Census Bureau will soon be knocking on doors throughout Jacksonville to count every head in the county. Its headquarters the last time the census was taken 10 years ago was on the Northside, but this time the government has chosen an urban core location. A 7,000 square-foot ground floor space is being prepared at 121 W. Forsyth St. that will be occupied by census takers and administrators on or before Aug. 15.