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Gilberto “Gil” Balli was named assistant special agent in charge of the FBI Jacksonville Resident Agency branch. He will oversee all operations in seven FBI offices in Daytona Beach, Ocala, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Panama City, Fort Walton and Pensacola.
• Orange Park Medical Center, an HCA Healthcare affiliate, named
Pete Long-Innes as chief operating officer of Orange Park Medical Center. He most recently was COO of Frankfort (Kentucky) Regional Medical Center, also an HCA affiliate. He has 12 years of experience within HCA Healthcare.
• At-Large Group 1 City Council member
Terrance Freeman joined Read USA as its first full-time CEO. Read USA is a nonprofit that has provided a quarter of a million free books to more than 73,000 children in Duval County since 2011.
“The Steering Committee of Resilient Jax thanks you for supporting the hiring of our city’s first Chief Resiliency Officer to lead Jacksonville’s response to the challenges we face from a warming climate,” the letter from Resilient Jax to Mayor Curry reads. “We are disappointed that you decided to oppose establishing the resiliency officer at the division chief level in the Planning Department. Resilient Jax will be working with the City Council and with your office to ensure this position is eventually elevated and properly funded to tackle the job at hand.”
“I’m hoping that getting hit by back to back hurricanes maybe, potentially changed his mind about whether or not it’s responsible to have a person that is kind of accountable to our response,” said Shannon Blankinship, Chair of Resilient Jax. “There are no major cities in the state of Florida that don’t already have either a chief resiliency officer or an entire department around resiliency. So Jacksonvi