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06:10 PM EST Share The Vestcor Companies Chairman John Rood said the Curry administration plans to implement the panel’s recommendations within two years.
A working group of Downtown CEOs and business leaders formed by Mayor Lenny Curry met Feb. 23 to draft recommendations to the city to improve the urban core.
The group’s lead member, The Vestcor Companies Chairman John Rood, said the panel will meet at least twice more by the end of March to meet Curry’s charge of recommending Downtown improvements that can be funded and implemented in the next two years.
“I care about it because I think if you don’t have an urban core you’re going to lose our young people,” Rood said in an interview after the meeting.
Two city events next week will focus on Downtown riverfront development and improving Jacksonville’s urban core.
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On Feb. 22, Mayor Lenny Curry will have a public discussion with corporate leaders and public officials with a “vested interest in Downtown Jacksonville.”
The 9 a.m. meeting in Multi-purpose Room 1 at the Jacksonville Main Library is open to the public.
In addition to Curry, it will be attended by:
• The Vestcor Companies Chairman John Rood. The homebuilder has been increasing its Downtown multifamily housing portfolio since 2007 and opened its 133-unit workforce housing community Lofts at Brooklyn on Feb. 11.
• Fidelity National Information Services Inc. Chairman and CEO Gary Norcross. The Jacksonville-based, global financial technology firm is building a 12-story, $156 million world headquarters in Brooklyn.
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Here are the Top 20 highest-paying jobs in Jacksonville’s public agencies
The Times-Union compiled a list of the top 20 highest-paid public employees, leaving out JEA officials who were fired before the year ended. Author: Florida Times-Union, Steve Patterson Published: 9:35 AM EST December 31, 2020 Updated: 9:36 AM EST December 31, 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Even though a lot changed at JEA in 2020, being CEO of Jacksonville’s electric and water utility still pays more than any other job in local government.
But the yawning pay gap between that post and top jobs at other Jacksonville independent authorities has been shrinking, a Times-Union review of public employees’ top salaries in 2020 shows.