Below is the agenda for August’s meeting for the Recreation and Parks Commission. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE RECREATION AND PARKS ADVISORY BOARD Meeting Agenda Monday, August 23, 2010 6:00 PM Jacksonville Commons Senior Building Community Room Call to Order Approval of Agenda Approval of Minutes – July 26, 2010 Meeting Director’s Report Department Vacancies Summer Program [...]
Below is the agenda for August’s meeting for the Trails and Greenways Commission. AGENDA JACKSONVILLE TRAILS & GREENWAYS COMMISSION Monday, August 16, 2010 6:00 P.M. Senior Center – Community Room I. CALL TO ORDER – Introduction REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES – Approval of July’s meeting minutes PRESENTATIONS – None OLD BUSINESS – Update [...]
Tip of the plastic hat to Urban Velo for this: Bicycle Portraits – Staying Alive from Bicycle Portraits on Vimeo. Many Americans mock those of us that use bicycles as primary forms of transportation instead of the more common automobile. It’s a shame, because I believe that bicycles can be the future of a more [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News has published a letter to the editor I sent regarding Mike McHugh’s column on gasoline prices in the Jacksonville-Swansboro-Onslow County area. You can read the letter below or visit the Jacksonville Daily News’ version, but be sure to read McHugh’s column first. Disagree with my letter? Support it? Let me know [...]
On behalf of the Down East Cyclists’ bicycling club, I’d like to invite you to participate in the Down East Cyclists Family Fun Ride on October 10th, 2009 at 9 o’clock in the morning. The Family Fun Ride will begin at the Onslow County Tax Office on Court Street and will follow the Rails-to-Trails Greenway [...]
I’ve been elected chairperson of both the Parks and Recreations and Trails and Greenways Commissions at their most recent meetings. Though I wasn’t looking for either appointment, I’m looking forward to the opportunity to move Jacksonville forward on recreation and bicycle/pedestrian issues. To do that, though, I need to hear from you, the residents of [...]
The Jacksonville City Council is still reeling from the aftershocks of the 4-2 vote to dismiss former City Manager Kristoff Bauer and revelation that Council-member Reva Sullivan may have been attempting to contact him inappropriately. Bauer wrote a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News declaring his intent to waive any right to [...]
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 [...]
May is National Bicycle Month. May 11th to 15th is Bicycle to Work Week and May 15th is Bicycle to Work Day. If you can’t ride all month or all week, shoot for Friday. Think you can’t commute by bicycle? Guess again, my friends. Unfortunately, there are no events sponsored by the City of Jacksonville [...]
The City of Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission met Monday, April 20th. The minutes from the March 16th meeting were approved. There were no presentations, but Mr. Mike Wetzel reminded Commission members that City staff (as well as outside agency staff (i.e. JUMPO, NCDOT, contractors, etc)) could be requested to provide presentations on on-going projects. [...]
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