Bloviations

The Bloviations of Thomas Brock

Bloviations RSS Feed
 

Posts tagged City of Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission

Down East Cyclists: Invitation to Down East Cyclists’ and City of Jacksonville Family Fun Ride on October 10th, 2009

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 to [...]

An Assortment of Dissociated and Disjointed Thoughts

I provide my usual and all-too-often needed apologies for being a less-than-stellar blogger.
This post is a mixed-bag of stuff that’s been floating around my head these few weeks.
The race for Jacksonville’s City Council
There hasn’t been much public campaigning. Mr. Hunter Hadley, Jr (At-Large) has yard signs posted. Councilwoman Reva Sullivan (Ward 2) is hosting [...]

City of Jacksonville: Trails and Greenways Commission Joint Meeting with Beautification and Appearance and Parks and Recreation Commissions Notes

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 recreation Capital Improvement [...]

Car-Free: The Wheels on the Bike Go ‘Round and ‘Round…

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 [...]

City of Jacksonville: Trails and Greenways Commission: April 20th Notes

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.
Mr. [...]

City of Jacksonville: Trails and Greenways Commission Meeting: March 16th Notes

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 Comprehensive Bicyclist and [...]

City of Jacksonville: Trails and Greenways Commission Meeting: March 16th, 2009

The next meeting of the Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission will be Monday, March 16th beginning at 6pm. The meeting will be held at the Jacksonville Commons Senior Center’s Community Room at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Complex.
The agenda is below:

CALL TO ORDER –
REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES – December 15th meeting
PRESENTATION – Chris [...]

Trails and Greenways Commission: Questions Sent to Mr. Michael Wetzel

The following is a list of questions I sent to Mr. Michael Wetzel. I asked these so that I can gain a better understanding of the role of the Trails and Greenways Commission and 

Is it possible to remove the 2007 information on the Trails and Greenways Commission webpage and replace [...]

Trails and Greenways Commission: December 2008 Meeting

Apologies for the late delivery on this. I have no excuse other than I’m lazy.
The meeting was short and held after the holiday social and pot-luck dinner.
The Commission discussed the following:

The new Trails and Greenways brochure – City staff has provided a draft to the City Manager for review and approval.
Trail [...]

My Letter to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s CO

The following is the text of a letter sent to Colonel Richard Flatau, Jr., the current Commanding Officer of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
As I promised, you should feel free to use the text of my letter as a starting point for your own.

Dear Colonel Flatau,
I attended the April 21, 2008 meeting of the City [...]

What I'm Doing...

Powered by Twitter Tools