Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Vol. 102, No. 253 • Two Sections
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Wawa wants Jacksonville presence
Wawa Inc., the Pennsylvaniabased convenience store and gas station chain that has opened 76 Florida locations in three years, has Jacksonville on its map for expansion. “We will continue to expand and look for sites in the state and hope to reach the Jacksonville area in the next several years,” said spokeswoman Lori Bruce by email. City Building Inspection Division Chief Tom Goldsbury said Tuesday he met three weeks ago with an architect and civil engineer representing Wawa. Goldsbury said they discussed
general procedures, but no plans have been submitted. He said no locations were specified. “That is something Wawa is working on,” he said. Goldsbury said he was under the impression some sites were chosen, but did not know for sure. He said there also could be sites outside Duval County in metropolitan Jacksonville.
Goldsbury said he didn’t know Wawa’s timeline for development. The company launched its Florida presence in July 2012 in Orlando, then expanded into Tampa. This year, it opened three stores each in Southwest Florida and Daytona. Bruce said Wawa is on track to open 25 new stores in Florida this year and 25 in 2016. When Wawa enters a market, it’s not unusual for it to open multiple stores. Its first five Orlando stores opened within a month. Mathis
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City building official has met with architect
Cuhaci & Peterson of Orlando has designed Wawa stores in Florida. The Pennsylvania-based Wawa chain wants Jacksonville stores in a few years.
Building donor base to meet the needs Nonprofits still not back from days of the recession
Chasing a different kind of pork Tom Cline was selected to lead the newly recreated independent Office of Inspector General in May. He’s been in place fewer than six months, hiring staff and setting up his office while handling complaints that have accumulated for about a year.
Cline jumps to new ladder for Jacksonville job
By David Chapman Staff Writer Some might say Tom Cline has been chasing pork his entire life. Growing up in Mark Twain country, the farmer’s son often was called on to help corral his uncle’s pigs. They had a knack for escaping from their pens and into big farm country. Most of his career, though, has been looking for waste, fraud and abuse — digging into various programs and contracts with precision for the benefit of taxpayers. That came first with the Defense Contract Audit Agency, then with the Federal Communications Commission. And finally as head of Jacksonville’s Office of Inspector General, a position he accepted at the end of May.
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The first five months or so on the job have been about learning and making do. The office’s budget allowed for four people and what was left of six months’ worth of complaints couldn’t be ignored. The phones don’t stop ringing and the emails don’t just freeze while you play catch-up. In the next six months, the office will be up to speed when a full staff of seven people are in place. And Cline will be in the middle of what he’s always wanted to do.
Revelation off the farm
Cline, 58, wasn’t someone who knew from a young age what he wanted in a career. He grew up near Hannibal, Cline
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His favorite mug, a longtime gift from his sister. It’s seen its share of coffee.
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer The nonprofit sector in Northeast Florida is showing signs of improved health after years of decline. But, progress is slow. From 2006-13, there were 26,000 fewer donors giving to nonprofits. That’s critical in Northeast Florida, where 75 percent of revenue received by nonprofits comes from individuals instead of foundations or corporations. Those were among the “sobering” and “depressing” findings unveiled Tuesday in the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida’s 2015 State of the Sector Report. It’s an analysis of 10 years of data from 501(c)(3) organizations in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. The data Magill was taken from the nonprofits’ Form 990s filed with the IRS. “If you’re telling it to the IRS, it’s true,” said Mary Kress Littlepage, who conducted the research and wrote the report. “It’s 100 percent real data.” Fewer organizations are operating at a net loss and individual giving remains flat, even though the region’s population has grown in the past decade. “I think we’re holding our own, but I find this data very sobering,” said Sherry Magill, president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, which worked with the Nonprofit Center to collect the data. “Things are getting better, but we’re not back to where we were. We may never get back to where we were before the recession,” Littlepage said. According to the study, from 2006-13, the number of nonprofits increased only slightly, from 945 in 2006 to 1,022 in 2013, but
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