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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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Not just yet for more officers 40 more cops among department’s $14.3M request
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No promises. Not even for public safety. In what’s shaping up to be a particularly painful budget year, Mayor Lenny Curry’s team putting together the city spending plan Monday heard about the needs of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The department would like another 40 officers and 40 community service officers, both levels that would match Curry’s first
Restaurant planned for San Marco gallery site
Stellers Gallery in Jacksonville’s San Marco Square is in review for conversion into a Flying Iguana restaurant. Restaurateur Al Mansur, also owner of the seven area Al’s Pizza Inc. restaurants, said Monday he has a contract to buy the building and convert it into a second Flying Iguana. The first Flying Iguana Taqueria and Tequila Bar is in Neptune Beach, where Mansur and a partner converted the former Sun Dog Diner in a more than $2.1 million project. Mansur said he will move forward on his own in the San Marco deal. He expects to invest more than $2 million to buy and renovate the 4,030-square-foot building. “I think it’s a great part of town for the demographics I am looking for,” Mansur said. Scott Riley, president of Stellers Inc., said Monday he hasn’t decided the next step if the building is sold, although he is looking at options to relocate the art gallery. He said Stellers has been in business since 1985 and in that building for 23 years. Riley said he is considering leasing a smaller location, but hasn’t decided where. Mansur said Stellers is on a month-tomonth lease. “They will have plenty of time to relocate,” Mansur said. He had no timeframe for the San Marco Flying Iguana because it awaits zoning approvals. Property owner Zambetti Properties Inc. has applied for a zoning exception, waiver and administrative deviation to create a 150-seat restaurant at the location, listed as 1407 Atlantic Blvd. Property records show the structure was built in 1940. According to applications made May 25, the zoning exception is for the retail sale of alcohol for on-premises consumption. Mathis continued on Page A-2
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year. Cost: $4.9 million. There’s a need to replace the department’s computer-automated dispatch system that’s expected to fail within the next couple of years. Cost: $3.9 million. The aging fingerprint identification system continues to fail and needs an overhaul. Cost: $1.9 million. Laptops burn out fairly quickly in the hot Florida sun inside patrol vehicles. Cost: $750,000. Various information technologies boosts: $1.8 million. All told, the sought enhance-
ments came out to $14.3 million. The department’s annual budget is more than $400 million. Most of the IT-related asks are becoming critical after being pushed back for years, Undersheriff Pat Ivey told the group. The needs were heard, but couldn’t be met just yet. Rising expenses, headlined by close to $280 million in pension payments are eating away at any boosts. “We can’t promise anything this moment,” Sam Mousa, Curry’s chief administrative officer, told Sheriff Mike Williams and
his staff at the end of the committee meeting. Yes, Curry’s priorities lie in public safety. And yes, Mousa said extras doled out could end up within the sheriff’s office. However, the city has a lot of needs and the budget team hasn’t sifted through every department’s proposal. Even then, Mousa acknowledged the end will have a “negative nut.” No promises. No enhancements, at least not yet. “We’re absolutely going to Budget continued on Page A-4
A healthy start at new MOSH exhibit
Photo by Carol Chaffin
By David Chapman Staff Writer
Patrons of the Museum of Science & History will soon be able to learn about the human body. The “Health in Motion: Discover What Moves You” exhibit opening Saturday combines work among five area health-care providers to help learn about lifestyle impacts on health. The exhibit was unveiled Monday with the help of, from left, Christina Zorn, Mayo Clinic chief administrative officer; Russ Armistead, CEO, UF Health Jacksonville (partially hidden); Dr. Huson Gilberstadt, St. Vincent’s HealthCare chief clinical officer; Doug Baer, Brooks Rehabilitation CEO; and Hugh Greene, Baptist Health president and CEO. The museum will host a daylong celebration of the exhibit on Saturday.
JSO to hire analyst for prosecutors New position will be fully funded by State Attorney’s Office By Max Marbut Staff Writer In law enforcement, as in many endeavors, it’s almost impossible to have too much information. Legislation will be introduced today to City Council that would create a new position within the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office — a public safety analyst who will be paid by and work exclusively for the State Attorney’s Office. “The more information we have, the bet-
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ter case we have,” said Jackelyn Barnard, state attorney spokeswoman. The legislation appropriates $18,611 for salary and benefits for three months beginning July 1 and calls for a memorandum of agreement between the sheriff’s office and the prosecutor to continue the position after Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2015-16. The agreement is to be renewed annually, provided the money is available in the state attorney’s budget. Barnard said the job has an annual salary of $50,000, plus benefits. According to
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the memorandum, the job comes with a $24,442 benefits package. The analyst will work out of the prosecutor’s office. Duties include cell phone mapping and analysis of calling patterns, jail telephone usage and visitation tracking, social media analysis and investigation of jury or witness tampering. “When JSO makes an arrest, there is still work to be done,” Barnard said. The analyst will work exclusively for prosecutors, but the position will be within Analyst continued on Page A-4
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