Resolution No. 00-02 v ill RESOLUTION NO. 00-02
WHEREAS, Jacksonville Beach Elementary School has served the Beaches communities
since it was constructed in 1928; and
WHEREAS, the Jacksonville Beach Elementary School now serves as a successful magnet
school for almost 600 gifted and academically talented students; and
WHEREAS, the Duval County School Board has proposed building a new school west of
the existing structure; and
WHEREAS, the original four-room structure served as the first African-American school
in the beaches area; and
WHEREAS, Beaches African-American Centennial Committee, parents, the Parent-
Teachers Association, and local citizens desire that the original structure be preserved and used as
a museum to preserve and protect the community's African-American history and other historic
memorabilia, and have designated that the week of March 17, 2000 as Jacksonville Beach
Elementary Preservation Celebration Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the City Commission of the City of Atlantic
Beach supports the efforts of the Beaches African-American Centennial Committee and petitions
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the Duval County School Board to preserve the original four-room structure of Jacksonville
Beach Elementary School.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION of Atlantic : -: 0\rida, this 2 day of
February, 2000.
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Ap►,oved as to form and correctness:
f AN C. r'SEN, ESQUIRE
CITY AT •RNEY
ATTEST:
MA/LEEN KING
CERTIFIED MUNICIP CLERK
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