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SULZBACHER: LEAVING THE SHELTER BUSINESS
Council OKs public notices on city website Some members say shift away from newspapers could raise transparency issues and not meet the state requirement for cost savings. BY MIKE MENDENHALL ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Photo by David Crumpler
Above: Cindy Funkhouser, president and CEO of Sulzbacher, stands at the entrance to Sulzbacher’s Downtown facility at 611 E. Adams St. Left: A rendering of Sulzbacher Enterprise Village. The proposed $46 million project is on about 17 acres in Northwest Jacksonville.
The nonprofit homelessness services provider is making progress on plans to expand its mission and relocate from Downtown, CEO Cindy Funkhouser says. BY DAVID CRUMPLER ASSISTANT EDITOR
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ulzbacher is leaving the shelter business. Cindy Funkhouser, president and CEO of the nonprofit homelessness services provider, said the Jacksonville group is commonly seen as “just a shelter.” But it has been expanding its housing
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and social services for years. It also is continuing its plan to relocate from Downtown, where it has been since 1995. Sulzbacher operates at 611 E. Adams St., where it provides 80 emergency beds for men, along with services such as meals and medical and behavioral health care. It is near the Duval County Jail and the Maxwell House Coffee plant.
From 100 to 150 people come to the campus each day, Funkhouser said. The most visible sign of its efforts to leave is the $21 million Sulzbacher Village, which opened in Springfield nearly five years ago. That community is at 5455 Springfield Blvd., where the organization provides transitional housing and services to SEE SULZBACHER, PAGE 10
After more than an hour of debate, the Jacksonville City Council approved legislation April 25 that allows city agencies to cease publishing public notices in the Jacksonville Daily Record and The Florida Times-Union print and online newspapers and move them to a city-controlled website. Council voted 14-4 to pass Ordinance 2023-0187. Mayor Lenny Curry’s bill does not require or mandate city departments to pull notices from Duval County’s two papers of record but gives city officials the option to publish them on a publicly accessible website that would be maintained and managed by the Information Technology department. Council approved a substitute bill passed by the Council Land Use and Zoning Committee and supported by the Curry administration that was wider-reaching and encompasses all government agency notices. Examples of public notices SEE NOTICES, PAGE 14
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