• If all goes well, JEA customers could see how much power they consume hour-by-hour by next year. JEA is teaming up with Google in a pilot program for next-day information on electricity usage through Google Powermeter. The tool will also offer feedback on what customers can do to reduce usage. For now, the program is being tested with JEA employees and a select few customers over the course of a year.
• JTA spokesman Mike Miller attended Thursday’s Realty Check First Coast “Game Day” event, but he wasn’t one of the 300 players involved. Instead, he was with a camera crew, filming a documentary-style movie about Jacksonville’s events. Miller said that other cities that have done a Reality Check exercise have done the same thing and included the needs, expectations and areas for such an exercise. All the filming, though, will equate to something much smaller. “Seven hours of video will be edited down for a seven minute presentation,” he said.
• Two people are up for reappointment to the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission: Helen Rowan for her first full term and current chair Zimmerman Boulos for a third term.
• This week daniel will mark a major milestone. The home for children will celebrate its 125th anniversary with a big party Saturday ay Friendship Fountain on the Southbank. Things get underway at 8:30 a.m. and run until noon.