Jacksonville’s former City Manager, Kristoff Bauer, was fired in a 4-2 (Jerome Willingham, Reva Sullivan, Alva Williams and Randy Thomas for, Michael Lazzara and Fannie Coleman against, Sammy Phillips, as Mayor, only votes in ties) vote on June 9th. After the firing, there was quite the bit of backlash from city employees and residents. City [...]
The City of Jacksonville’s Trails and Greenways, Parks and Recreations and Beautification and Appearance commissions met Monday, May 18th for their annual joint meeting. The agenda is here. All commissions previous meeting minutes were approved. The chairmen of each commission made reports on each the actions of each commission: Parks and Recreation: Work on the [...]
The Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission is meeting Monday, May 18th at 6pm in the Choate Room at the Jacksonville Commons Senior Center. This is a public meeting and all City residents are invited and welcome to come. The agenda is below. I. Call to Order II. Approval of Previous Meeting’s Minutes a. Recreation & [...]
The agenda for this month’s Trails and Greenways Commission meeting is here. Notes and results follow: The Commission unanimously approved the minutes for the December 08 meeting. Mr. Chris Lukasina (administrator for the Jacksonville Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) provided a presentation on JUMPO’s efforts in transportation planning. He touched on the status of the [...]
I made a statement to the Jacksonville City Council during their January 6th, 2009 meeting. Video is directly below and text below that. I’d like to thank the City Council and the City staff for their efforts to improve the community in which we all live. The Rails-to-Trails project and its pedestrian bridges, the [...]
The Jacksonville City Council wishes all the City residents a happy holiday Technorati Tags: Jacksonville NC,Jacksonville City Council,Mayor of Jacksonville NC,Sammy Phillips,Michael Lazzara,Alva Williams,Reva Sullivan,Randy Thomas,Jerome Willingham,Fannie Coleman,2008 Holiday Greetings,YouTube,Internet Video
Remember my letter to the Jacksonville City Council regarding the vacancy in the Trails and Greenways Commission? It may have had an impact… I was nominated and appointed to the Trails and Greenways Commission during Wednesday’s council meeting. The video is below. Some notes: Apparently, they got my letter. Mayor Phillips and Councilwoman Williams specifically [...]
As I mentioned before, the City Council will visit the nomination process at their Wednesday, November 5th Council meeting. I would appreciate any and all support if you feel that I would be an able representative on the Commission. The text of the letter is below. Please feel free to use it for ideas for [...]
I’m recovering from the end of a four-day weekend (AM and I took Thursday and Friday off, as well as the standard Saturday/Sunday weekend). We got Dexter neutered and had his shots updated. We voted. Early voting is really easy and takes very little time. There really is no excuse, folks. Please, go vote. We [...]
Today’s Jacksonville Daily News has a Letter to the Editor from former Jacksonville City Councilman Jerry Bittner. Mr. Bittner feels that the impact of previous City Councils was minimized by comments made by City Manager Kristoff Bauer (and myself, though Bittner didn’t call me out on it). Bittner points to the Rails-to-Trails project (which Bittner didn’t [...]
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