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Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 1:08pm

Title VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Chapter 50  LEGAL AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS View Entire Chapter

50.041  Proof of publication; uniform affidavits required.-- (1)  All affidavits of publishers of newspapers (or their official representatives) made for the purpose of establishing proof of publication of public notices or legal advertisements shall be uniform throughout the state. (2)  Each such affidavit shall be printed upon white bond paper containing at least 25 percent rag material and shall be 81/2 inches in width and of convenient length, not less than 51/2 inches. A white margin of not less than 21/2 inches shall be left at the right side of each affidavit form and upon or in this space shall be substantially pasted a clipping which shall be a true copy of the public notice or legal advertisement for which proof is executed. (3)  In all counties having a population in excess of 450,000 according to the latest official decennial census, in addition to the charges which are now or may hereafter be established by law for the publication of every official notice or legal advertisement, there may be a charge not to exceed $2 for the preparation and execution of each such proof of publication or publisher's

Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 1:01pm

Please remember the Ethics Bills are coming up Tuesday as well for their third readings and will be voted on before the public comment period, if anyone wanted to comment on those during the Public Comment period.

I will touch on it during my three minutes. :)

Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 12:44pm

Dept. of Community Affairs web site http://www.dca.state.fl.us/

Office of Tourism, Trad & Economic Development www.flgov.com/otted_home

 

I just wrote to these two dept's Office of Tourism it was the Director I sent the message to.

I wish everyone would write them to start filing complaints. It might not help but maybe it will.

Comment by J.R. on June 12, 2011 at 12:37pm

Where is documentation of notice and letting of bids in an open bidding process for the EverBank deal? I'm not finding any evidence of any solicitation, acceptance, and consideration of bids for this project. If anyone knows where such documentation would be recorded and made available to the public, please post it here.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on June 12, 2011 at 11:24am

In other words, the Times Union is the most widely accepted by Duval County residents, but the Record meets the general distribution part (and the other criteria since it is published 5 days a week).  They put it in the Record, because it is a business and law news paper (it is actually a very small newspaper) and would be most widely read by the people getting the money and not by those so much that pay the money (ie the taxpayers).  They cover the public hearing part by having all council commissions, boards, committee etc open to the public with a comment period in most cases.  Sleazey

Comment by J.R. on June 12, 2011 at 11:21am

Here is some new information about Parador Partners, LLC, and its owner Cameron Kuhn, who does not, as shown in news reports, have a stellar reputation---either with regard to his word or his company's bankruptcy, numerous foreclosures of his properties, and numerous lawsuits against him/his properties. There is very little, in my opinion, to recommend him for any new deals with the City of Jacksonville/Duval County or to require that Duval County taxpayers subsidize his tarnished corporation.

Mayor John Peyton and the JEDC, especially Ron Barton, Executive Director of JEDC, who has worked very hard in lock-step with Peyton in promoting this sweet deal for EverBank, Parador Partners,LLC, and El Ad Group/Delek Group, HAVE STILL NOT provided the public with full (or any) disclosure related to El Ad Group, who are the owners of the building that is the linchpin in the deal. And, they have not provided the public with full disclosure about Parador Partners, LLC and Cameron Kuhn, and the bankruptcy and multiple foreclosures on his company's developed/redeveloped properties. It is not the job of Duval County taxpayers to subsidize Mr. Kuhn's or his corporation's financial rehabilitation, of which we taxpayers have not been informed. Mr. Kuhn is reported to have a reputation for rushing through deals like this "at mach speed."

This deal is nowhere close to meriting passage by the Jacksonville City Council, and the dishonest and unethical manner in which it has been rushed through required procedures, without fulfilling all legally required disclosures doesn't even pass the smell test and should be soundly rejected.

What it does merit is a thorough investigation and possibly a forensic audit to assure Duval County taxpayers that other taxpayer dollars have not been miss-spent or miss-allocated on other such deals where they have been forced to subsidize corporate welfare. Particularly in this deal, where taxpayers would be forced to subsidize a foreign, multi-billion dollar international corporation, whose owner is one of the richest men in the world.

RON BARTON, EXECUTIVE DIREDTOR OF JEDC, IS APPARENTLY MAYOR PEYTON'S POINT MAN ON THE RIVERWATCH/PARADOR PARTNERS LLC DEAL RE THE PARKING GARAGE AND SUNTRUST TOWER... AND HE PITCHED THE DEALS FOR EVERBANK AND PARADOR AT THE JUNE 9 JEDC MEETING, according to this article... BUT WHERE IS EL-AD GROUP?
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2011/06/09/jedc-backs-...

7 Days & Waking Life: Downtown To Come
"Over the last week, a series of public announcements and events has come forth, that when combined and coordinated, could quickly breathe life into Downtown Jacksonville.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2011-may-7-days-waking-lif...

Cameron Kuhn, longtime developer who owns or has an interest in more than a dozen properties within the Orlando city core, is completing the largest redevelopment in downtown history -- the $140 million Plaza towers -- and is attempting to revive the nearby Church Street Station entertainment complex, withered by years of indifferent ownership. Kuhn estimates his properties in Orlando and Jacksonville are worth $156 million, and carry a combined debt of $26 million, leaving him with total equity, or net value, of about $130 million. Kuhn has been described as a free-thinking college dropout who wears a thin gold earring to work, lords over his empire from an overstuffed chaise lounge next to his desk and once presented city leaders with a suggested blueprint for downtown development sketched in his own hand on a manila file folder. It included a wave pool and skateboard park. Kuhn has bought and sold or renovated office buildings in other urban centers including Jacksonville, Atlanta and New Orleans. He grew up 40 miles northwest of Chicago in the upper-class suburb of Lake Zurich. In grade school, when a teacher asked members of his class what each wanted to be, he declared: "I want to be a millionaire." He had difficulty reading and writing, but an uncle taught him chess. In late 2007, he is battling a number of lawsuits over his property and investments, and trying to figure out how to avoid checkmate and ride out a global liquidity crunch without liquidating his portfolio at below-cost."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/economy-business-finance/const...

Former real estate giant sheds debt, pounds and plans his return
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2010/05/03/story5.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2010/05/03/story5.html

Four years ago, the city entrusted developer Cameron Kuhn with saving downtown. How's that going, anyway?
http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/util/printready.asp?id=11898

CAMERON KUHN - THE DOWNTOWN RE-DEVELOPMENT BARON WHO WENT BUST
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,1762.0.html

Still Mr. Big? Orlando developer Cameron Kuhn remains shamelessly self-confident. But a backdrop of lawsuits, course changes and angry tenants suggests even he isn't immune from the troubled rear estate market.(Profile: Cameron Kuhn)
http://www.highbeam/doc/178483896,html

Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 9:33am

Municipal Code

Sec. 500.106. - Modification of community redevelopment plans.

(a)

If at any time after the approval of a community redevelopment plan by the Council, it becomes necessary or desirable to amend or modify such plan, the Council may amend such plan. The recommendation to amend or modify a redevelopment plan may include a change in the boundaries of the redevelopment area to add land to or exclude land from the redevelopment area, the merger or consolidation of two or more redevelopment areas into one redevelopment area, or may include the development and implementation of community policing innovations.

(b)

The Council shall hold a public hearing on a proposed modification of a community redevelopment plan after public notice thereof by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in the City.

 

Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 9:19am

FS 163.380

(3)(a)  Prior to disposition of any real property or interest therein in a community redevelopment area, any county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency shall give public notice of such disposition by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in the community, at least 30 days prior to the execution of any contract to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property and, prior to the delivery of any instrument of conveyance with respect thereto under the provisions of this section, invite proposals from, and make all pertinent information available to, private redevelopers or any persons interested in undertaking to redevelop or rehabilitate a community redevelopment area or any part thereof. Such notice shall identify the area or portion thereof and shall state that proposals must be made by those interested within 30 days after the date of publication of the notice and that such further information as is available may be obtained at such office as is designated in the notice. The county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency shall consider all such redevelopment or rehabilitation proposals and the financial and legal ability of the persons making such proposals to carry them out; and the county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency may negotiate with any persons for proposals for the purchase, lease, or other transfer of any real property acquired by it in the community redevelopment area. The county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency may accept such proposal as it deems to be in the public interest and in furtherance of the purposes of this part. Except in the case of a governing body acting as the agency, as provided in s. 163.357, a notification of intention to accept such proposal must be filed with the governing body not less than 30 days prior to any such acceptance. Thereafter, the county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency may execute such contract in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) and deliver deeds, leases, and other instruments and take all steps necessary to effectuate such contract.

Comment by CJ on June 12, 2011 at 9:17am

Here it is..... I know there is more somewhere pertaining to size and content of the notice somewhere.

Memorandum of  Law and Fact regarding Publication of Notice of  Action Applicable Law Publication of notices of action and the proof of publication are coveredin Section 49.10, FLORIDA STATUTES.

Notices must be published“is a newspaper published at ______, in said ______County, Florida, and that the said newspaper has heretofore beenentered as periodicals matter at the post office in ______, in said______ County, Florida, for a period of 1 year next preceding thepublication of the attached copy of advertisement... .”Section 49.10, FLORIDA STATUTES, requires that the Proof of Publication must comply withthe requirements of law. In other words, the Proof of Publication must provide under oath that thenewspaper meets all statutory requirements.in some newspaper in the county where the courtis located. Fla. Stat. §49.10(1)(a).The nature of the newspaper (in which notices must be published) is governed bySection 50.0l1, FLORIDA STATUTES, which lists six requirements:1. The newspaper must be published weekly or more often.2. At least 25% of the words in the newspaper must be in English.3. The newspaper must be entered or qualified to be admitted and entered as periodicalsmatter at a post office in the county where it is published (but this requirement has additionalqualifications under §50.031).4. The newspaper must be for sale to the public generally.5. The newspaper must accept and publish official and other notices from the general public.6. The newspaper must customarily contain information (i.e., news)A. of a public character orB. of interest or value to the residents or owners of property in the countywhere published, orC. of interest or of value to the general public.The seventh and eighth requirements are imposed by Section 50 031, FLORIDA STATUTES:7. The newspaper shall have been in existence for one year.The eighth requirement is additionally refined in Section 50.051, FLORIDA STATUTES, whichrequires the Proof of Publication state that the newspaper

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on June 12, 2011 at 8:59am

JR and CJ, you have done an unbelievable job pulling information.  I can do some, but I am no where near as good at it as the 2 of you are.  It is phenomenal, and I keep thinking........these are the folks that want to pick who sits on the ethics commission.  Heaven help us.

 

Found the article about the Northwest jacksonville Economic Development Fund and kados to the reporters for getting an award for their work on the article.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-03-28/story/broken-trust-ho...

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