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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 252 • oNe SectioN
Still in cleanup mode
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Duval County residents quickly responded after being made eligible last week for post-Hurricane Matthew federal assistance. Of the 33,000 people in Florida who have registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, almost 3,400 were from Duval County. It’s an “impressive” start, said retired Gen. Montague Whitfield, a local liaison with the federal agency. Starting today, that local num-
ber could swell even larger. The agency is opening its first Duval County Disaster Recovery Center with experts available to assist residents and register them for financial help, if they’re eligible. The center is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. Winfield told the City Council Neighborhoods, Community Investments and Services Committee on Monday that additional centers could open later. Experts at the center are not FEMA CONTINUED ON PAGE A-3
City crews have been busy picking up massive amounts of debris left in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
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Southside senior housing planned
FEMA center opening Downtown to take claims
By David Chapman Staff Writer
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Skinner family members are preparing to sell more land in Southside, this time for senior housing and a personal storage facility. “We felt like it was appropriate to have this type of facility among all the other residential activity,” A.C. “Chip” Skinner III said of the senior living housing, which is the larger project. Kronos Capital Inc. of St. Petersburg wants to develop the project on 24.12 acres along Burnt Mill Road in Southside. It will be managed by Validus Senior Living of Tampa. Validus CEO Steve Benjamin said last week he wants to break ground in February on the community, to be called Inspired Living of Jacksonville. Benjamin said there will be 150 units of licensed assisted living with a separate area for residents with memory care related challenges. Inspired Living will be “amenity heavy,” he said. It will include wellness and fitness areas, full spa services, anytime dining in a restaurant-style environment, a dog park, transportation services and health care related services facilitated by licensed nurses seven days a week. A rezoning application, 2016-704, shows
A bill will be introduced to City Council next week to appropriate $550,000 to repair the road at Huguenot Memorial Park that was damaged during Hurricane Matthew.
$900,000 in damage at Huguenot Memorial Park
By Max Marbut Staff Writer Add $900,000 to the city’s bill for damage caused by Hurricane Matthew. That’s the cost estimate for repairs needed at Huguenot Memorial Park on Heckscher Drive in North Jacksonville. An ordinance will be introduced at City Council next week to appropriate $550,000 to repair the road leading to and within the park. Damage to the office building and maintenance area is estimated at $100,000 and replacing the entrance gate system will cost $100,000.
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Repairing or replacing the 450-acre park’s shelters will cost $100,000 and $50,000 is needed to repair or replace the lifeguard station, signs, barbecue grills and trash receptacles. Council on Oct. 25 enacted an emergency ordinance to appropriate $7 million for dune restoration in Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach. Of the total, $6 million would be used to extend the contract for the beach renourishment project in progress to also include rebuilding the dunes destroyed by the hurricane. Sea oat replacement accounts for the remaining $1 million of the appropriation.
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Kevin Brown, a teacher at Fletcher High School in Jacksonville Beach, and student volunteers have offered to assist in planting the sea oats, which stabilize dunes from normal erosion. As of Monday afternoon, negotiations between the contractor and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to add the dune restoration to the contract were not resolved. Corps spokeswoman Amanda Parker said there could be an answer Wenesday on the proposed contract addition. She also said the corps is considering beach renourishment at other areas within the boundaries of the Duval County HUGUENOT CONTINUED ON PAGE A-3
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Republicans hold lead in early voting By David Chapman Staff Writer One week down, less than one to go. With almost 168,000 ballots cast, Republicans hold a 2,550 lead over Democrats in local early voting, The turnout is about what Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan said was expected at the outset. Hogan, overseeing his first presidential election, said expectations were for about 210,000 early votes to be cast, or about 15,000 a day. “We’re coming pretty close to hitting that projection,” he said Monday evening. The largest early voting day was Oct. 24, when just over 16,000 people cast ballots. It’s trickled downward since that first day, reaching a low of 10,225 on Sunday. The party breakdown of those votes and a slim Republican lead isn’t surprising, said Mike Binder, director of the University of North Florida Public Opinion Research Lab. VOTING CONTINUED ON PAGE A-4
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