• The World Affairs Council Jacksonville presents national defense analyst and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at the University of North Florida University Center. His topic is “How Secure is Our National Security: Where are the Threats?” Later in the month, Acosta Sales & Marketing Executive Chairman Gary Chartrand presents “Education: The Great Equalizer … How We Perform on the Global Stage” at noon Jan. 31 at The River Club Downtown. For information, visit www.worldaffairscounciljax.org.
• Jersey Mike’s Subs will open its first area restaurant in mid-March at Roosevelt Boulevard and St. Johns Avenue.
• A public notice filed in Circuit Court shows a change in the notice of sale for the Hyatt Downtown. The public sale is scheduled for April 25. The sale had been scheduled Jan. 11.
• Correction: Ginny Myrick’s holiday network party included about 75 guests. An incorrect number was published in the Dec. 26 Daily Record.
• Holland & Knight Partner Martha Barnett, past president of the American Bar Association, is scheduled as the special guest speaker at the Girl Scouts of Gateway Council Women of Distinction 100th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon at noon Jan. 20 at Epping Forest Yacht Club. Barnett, based in Tallahassee, was president of the Bar in 2000-01.
• Florida TaxWatch, the statewide nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog group, approved its 2012 executive committee and board members. The chairman is Marshall Criser III of AT&T in Miami and the president and CEO is Dominic Calabro. Those named from Jacksonville include David Mann from SunTrust Bank – North Florida as corporate secretary; immediate past chairman is David Smith, retired from PSS World Medical Inc.; and board members include John Baker II, Patriot Transportation Holding Inc., and Mike Jennings, Prudential.
• Today’s 10 a.m. City Council Rules Committee meeting agenda includes 2011-769, a resolution in support of local legislative bill J-3 regarding the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission. The J-3 bill allows the City to change the JEDC by Council ordinance without a need for a voter referendum. The resolution is introduced at the request of Mayor Alvin Brown, who wants to repeal the JEDC and reorganize it to focus on Downtown.
• Among City permits for office space: A room renovation for VyStar Credit Union at the Ed Ball Building at 214 N. Hogan St. by Dana B. Kenyon Co. at a project cost of $25,000, and demolition of a building at 910 Dunn Ave. for Fifth Third Bank at a project cost of $10,000.