• Accountant Mark Hand took over the 2011 Meninak Club of Jacksonville presidency Monday from 2010 President Kent Lindsey of Lindsey Films Inc. “We’re all going to be in very good hands this year,” Lindsey assured the 92-year-old group, pun intended. Hand said his leadership team will focus on building fellowship and camaraderie at the meetings, including a way to inspire members to not always sit with the same people. More to come, he said.
• Ability Housing will celebrate the renovation of its 83-unit Mayfair Village Apartments affordable rental housing complex at 3539 Beach Blvd. Thursday morning.
• The First Coast chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators elected Susan McDowell, manager of construction technology applications for The Haskell Company, as president of its 2011 executive board.
• The next meeting of the Regional Transportation Study Commission will be 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 26 at the St. Johns County Airport Authority.
• Gov. Rick Scott spent part of his Monday morning in Northeast Florida attending the Florida Police Chiefs Association 2011 midwinter conference at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.
• Daniel O’Byrne
President and CEO, Visit Jacksonville
“I want to see Jacksonville’s tourism and hospitality industry flourish. Also, being the new guy in town, I hope to learn all that I can about Jacksonville and its people to develop relationships with colleagues and the community that will last a lifetime.”