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06/1991 Atlantic Beach CourierVOLUME 2, NO.2 CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH COURIER William I. Gulliford, Mayor Commissioners: Robert B. Cook, Sr., Glenn A. Edwards, Adelaide R. Tucker, John W. Weldon, Alan C. Jensen, City Attorney, Kim D. Leinbach, City Manager, Maureen King, City Clerk City Of Atlantic Beach A CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD George Bull, Jr. Heywood Dowling, Jr. Mattie Freeman Herbert Moller John J. Venn Willie Miley Edward Martin (Meets 1st Tuesday every two months) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD Johnny D. Bass Kathleen Russell Ruth Gregg Samuel T. Howie W. Gregg McCaulie Robert Frohwein Don Wolfson (Meets 3rd Tuesday of each month) PENSION BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joseph Garvin Joan LaVake Richard E. White Ronald W. Wingate Alison Brown PUBLIC NUISANCE CONTROL BOARD J. C. Green P.J. Wetherhold HOSPITAL BOARD Dorothy Kerber, Atlantic Beach Representative TREE CONSERVATION BOARD John Weldon, Jr. Dezmond Waters Carolyn Woods Sandy Sheppard Jim Pelkey (Meets 3rd Monday of each month) RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD Donald Fagan Henry Batts Gerard Vermey David Turner Jeff Croom Richard Riley Sharette Simpkins (Meets 2nd Thursday of each month) JUNE 1991 NOTES: From The Mayor City- Hall On Saturday, June 1st at 10:00 am, we will be dedicating our new City Hall. I hope you will be there to help us celebrate this great event. The last City Hall was built in 1933, so you can see this is something that doesn't happen very often. I think you will be very proud of our new facility, and it will serve us for many years to come. The old City Hall will be converted to a recreation building for you, the citizens of the community. We envision everything from bridge clubs, parties, recep- tions and meetings in the old building. There are plans for remodeling and expansion at some time in the future, depending on the availability of funds. you are Cordia�CiJ Invited to the Dedication Ceremony for the Atfantic Beach City Had 800 Stele load .Atlantic Beach, F& ida Saturday, Yune 1, 1991 10:00 a.m. W_4W%W_4W_" 64.%, Notes From The Mayor Continued: Interlocal We maintain our relationship with Jackson- ville (acting as our County), under a written interlocal agreement. The agreement was drafted and executed over fifteen years ago. It has become increasingly more obvious to me in the last year that this agreement is unfair and one-sided. Our city is being short- changed when you look at the amount of revenue the City of Jacksonville collects in property and other taxes in Atlantic Beach, and the services we get from them in return. We are preparing our case and in the next several weeks, we will make a formal request to the City of Jacksonville to open negotia- tions on changes to this agreement which TAT0111 -1 be T believe there is no issue before us that is more significant to our future than this one! If you wish to help in this effort, please call City Hall and leave your name and I will call you back. Sincerely, Mayor Gulliford Palms On Atlantic Boulevard I hope by the time you read this article, we will have final permission from Florida Department of Transportation to place over fifty palm trees in the median of Atlantic Boulevard from Mayport Road to Third Street. This permit is the final step before we start the actual planting. We have been work- ing on this project for over a year, and we are excited that it is close to realization. No tax money will be spent on this project! The money is coming from an individual bene- factor with the assistance of the Chamber of Commerce and there are enough funds avail- able to pay for the trees and planting. We hope it will be a first step in a strong and continuing effort to beautify our community. The Beautification Committee has worked hard on this and other projects. By the way, if you are interested in being involved with the Beautification Committee, call Carl Walker at 247-5828 any weekday morning. Growth The 1990 Census showed that Atlantic Beach was the fastest growing city, with a population of 5,000 or more, in all of North Florida. In that ten year span, Atlantic Beach increased its population over 48%. Certainly, this growth demonstrates the desirability of our town. Of course, we are well aware of why we live here. Atlantic Beach isn't a well kept secret anymore. Along with this kind of rapid growth comes problems with the services we render to our citizens, and it has caused us to increase the size of our work force to expand our facilities. Even with this increase in growth, your Commission is committed to maintaining the cordial, small town atmosphere that all of us have come to appreciate. We continue to direct the employ- ees of the city to maintain courtesy and inter- est in their relations with you, the residents. WE'RE MOVING: As of June 1st, the Recre- ation Department and Beautification Coordi- nator will move to the original City Hall at 716 Ocean Boulevard. The new city telephone numbers are listed elsewhere in this publica- tion. The YMCA will operate a satellite center from the trailer in Jack Russell Park. ion of officers for the dace at the April Nere: Chairman, , Vice -Chairman, ecretary/Coordina- .nd Treasurer, Vern y Ford serves as Past it meetings will d the second 1h month at 7:30 pm a are concerned with and enhancement of )lease join us at our eautiful yards this difficult to single out each month for "Our h" recognition. The 1aa L u u CC i CuFuCilts have been: 1540 Selva Marina Drive, 579 Selva Lakes Circle, and 335 Second Street. Nominations are always welcome. Any residential property within our city limits is eligible. Several projects the Committee has been working on will be completed within the next month or two. The results will be obvious. More impor- tantly, they are improvements for our city that will be pleasing to all. Jacksonville Waste Control 6501 Greenland Road Jacksonville, Florida 32258 April 8,1991 Honorable William Gulliford Mayor Atlantic Beach P. O. Box 25 Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233 SUBJECT: Atlantic Beach Recycling Report October 1991 - March 1991 Dear Mayor Gulliford; The attached report provides the details of our collection services through March, 1991. When viewed in terms of pounds collected per customer, per week, The Atlantic Beach Program continues to perform well above the overall average for Duval County. The new average for Duval County for the week ending March 29 was 4.3 pounds per cus- tomer, while your average for March was 6.8 pounds per customer or 58% better. We trust this information is satisfactory. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of Atlantic Beach's Solid Waste Program. Sincerely, Dwayne Igou General Manager TO THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTIC BEACH: The above letter reflects the quality of our community and the level of participation of our citizens. The figures speak for themselves in evaluating the success of the recycling effort in our city compared to our neighbors to the west. Give yourselves a pat on the back for your involvement and participation. I am very proud to be the Mayor of a community like Atlantic Beach because you care and are so involved. Keep up the great work! Sincerely, Bill Gulliford Mayor Community Department LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS: With the acceptance by the Department of Community Affairs of Atlantic Beach's Comprehensive Plan, the first half of the State's Comprehensive Planning Act require- ments have been met. The second half is the adoption of Land Development regulations which will translate the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan into language and procedures designed for daily usage and which will be easily understandable to the citizenry as well as the city state. These Land Development Regulations will include a few changes to the existing zoning ordinance and the addition of several new ordinances. The new ordinances will regulate things such as landscaping of the new devel- opments, institute clearer sign regulations, environmental protections for the wetland areas in the city, protection for potable water wells, and develop a Concurrency Manage- ment system. The most important of these new ordinances will be the Concurrency Management system. This is a system to ensure that the city does not make commitments to provide services that we cannot yet provide. It is a method to coordinate the activities of all of the city's services and protect the city and its residents from over commitment of city resources. Final implementation of these regulations will be by the end of August. Input by the residents of Atlantic Beach is strongly encour- aged. Copies of these regulations will be available through the City Planner as they reach final draft stage before being adopted by the City Commission. Please contact George Worley for information and/or copies, and please attend your City Commission meetings. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK PROGRAM: Atlantic Beach continues to actively implement its Donner Rehabilitation Program. We are currently working on the last five of the original target homes which were identi- tied at the start of the program. We are identifying other homes in the neighbor- hood which are in need of rehabilitation assistance and will continue this worth- while program as long as Block Grant funds are available. If you, your neighbors or a member of your family lives in the Donner area and need assistance to repair or rehabilitate a home there, please contact the Community Development Department at City Hall. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION STARTED: At the suggestion of Mayor William Gulliford and with the encouragement of the city Com- mission, the City Manager and members of the city staff have been assisting in the establishment of a private, non-profit organization to be known as the Donner Subdivision Community Development Corporation. This corporation is tasked with providing low interest loans for reha- bilitation of homes, rent -to -own type programs and assisting in the purchase of property as homesteads. It will, at first, direct its attentions to the Donner area but will be able to expand its efforts to the westside of Mayport Road and to other areas of the city where it can benefit Atlantic Beach residents the most. Although the Community Development Corporation is still in its beginning stages, questions about what it will be able to do and who will operate it can be answered by the Community Development Depart- ment. For information please contact George Worley at City Hall. YMCA Summer Cam?r Register at the new Parks & Recreation office location at 716 Ocean Boulevard or in the trailer in jack Russell Park. Dates for camp: June 10 through August 16. The YMCA will be permanently housed in the trailer for the next year, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. They will try to tailor their programs to meet the needs of the community and would appreciate your input. They want to be a part of our "Family." sm The city will provide summer "camp" for young people in the Donner and Jordan subdivisions on Monday through Friday from June 10 through August 16. Camp will be from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm so the children will have a chance to go home out of the heat until Calvin arrives when it cools off. By request of the children in that area, Camp will be held in Donner Park this year. Free lunch will be provided. We must have registrations so we can make sure we have enough lunches. If you need a sign up sheet, contact Ms. Rose or Calvin. If children from the Royal Palms area need transportation contact Ms. Rose; she will try to arrange for pick up in "your van." 7o� gqqqpQ �TH 74?59r�� Plans are not yet firm. Watch the local news- papers, (Sun Times, Beaches Leader, and Florida Times Union) for more information. N-li\ I rrojects • The final piping and cleanup is under way on the Major Sewer Rehabilitation project in the Royal Palms area. This project is two months ahead of schedule and will probably be completed by the time you receive this newsletter. • The painting of the water tower on Eleventh Street has been completed. • A contract has been awarded to International Fabco to construct a flow equalization basin at the Buccaneer wastewater treatment plant. This basin will increase capacity and improve the efficiency of the plant which is now operating at borderline capacity. • Bids will shortly be received for the construction of a new lift station in the Sea Gardens area, so that all city residents can be tied into the Atlantic Beach wastewater treatment plant. TREE CONSERVATION BOARD: A reminder to anyone building a new home in Atlantic Beach... removal of trees during the construction of a new home requires the review and approval of the Tree Conservation Board prior to obtaining a permit. For information about the Tree Conservation Ordinance or applications to appear there, please contact the Building Department at City Hall. The Tree Conser- vation Board regularly holds its meetings the first and third Mondays of the month at City Hall, at 7:30 pm. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD: During this summer the Community Development Board will be reviewing the city's new Land Development Regulations to ensure that they comply with the adopted Comprehensive Plan. Public attendance and input are both welcomed and encouraged. Community Development Board meetings are regularly held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm in the Council Chambers of City Hall. City of Atlantic Beach Courier 716 Ocean Boulevard P.O. 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