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Council launches JEA investigation
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Special committee seeks all communications from city-owned utility about potential sale, expects nearly 5 million documents.
BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
A special City Council investigatory committee looking into the effort to sell JEA issued an 84-point records request to the utility Feb. 10 that includes all communications with Mayor
Lenny Curry and his close political advisers. In its first meeting, the threemember panel of Council members Rory Diamond, Brenda Priestly Jackson and Randy DeFoor set the scope of its investigation that will examine the city-owned utility’s canceled
invitation to negotiate a sale and employee bonus plan. The committee seeks emails, text messages and contracts from JEA’s senior leadership team, board members and outside financial and legal firms hired to work on the ITN. It also set the tone for the five-
month process. Diamond, the committee chair, issued a warning near the end of the meeting to individuals he said are behind an effort to discredit the three-member panel and its work. SEE JEA, PAGE 2
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Artists’ rendering for The Wall at College Park. The mural is scheduled for completion by March on the Town & Country Shopping Center wall facing the Arlington Expressway.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Artists’ mural to present “Arlington” at the 67-year-old retail plaza renamed College Park. Look for a face-lift followed by renovation at Town & Country Shopping Center.
Now called College Park, the center at northeast University Boulevard and Arlington Expressway will gain a mural that spells out “Arlington.” “The mural was an important first step to improving a highly visible beacon in the Arlington community,” says a news release from JWB Real Estate Capital, part of JWB Companies. Work starts this month and the murals are scheduled for completion in early March. JWB Real Estate Companies commissioned eight Jacksonville artists for The Wall at College Park. The eight-panel mural next to the expressway will span about 6,500 square feet. Each panel will represent the artist’s style and viewpoint. The wall is on the side of the
building leased by Legacy Ministries. Artist Nicole “Nico” Holderbaum is coordinating the project and contributing her art to one of the panels. She intends to host a festival when the mural is completed. The other seven participating artists are Christopher Clark, Tatiana Kitchen, Elena Ohlander, Martin “Tilin” Torres, Steven Teller, Ansley Randall and Anthony Rooney. Holderbaum has directed and organized art and music events as well as mural productions that include Color Me Kona, The Landing Walls, Paws Park Murals, King’s Teen Murals, Duval Gems and the We Rise Festival. JWB says street art beautifies SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
The artists commissioned to create The Wall at College Park are, seated, bottom row from left, Nicole “Nico” Holderbaum, Anthony Rooney, Elena Ohlander and Ansley Randall. Standing, from left: Christopher Clark, Martin “Tilin” Torres, Tatiana Kitchen and Steven Teller.
NCP Solutions says it will lay off 57 workers NCP Solutions LLC, a Birmingham, Alabama-based data and document outsourcing company, will lay off 57 workers at its Jacksonville production facility as part of a consolidation effort. The company operates at 8948 Western Way, Suite 10. It also manufactures custom forms and envelopes. NCP expects layoffs to occur between June 30 and Aug. 31, according to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Notice filed with the state Jan. 31.
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