JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 On Wednesday, the city of Jacksonville held its first two workshops in Mandarin to facilitate the idea of creating a community advocacy group called the \u201cMandarin Area Preservation Project.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first meeting was held at Mandarin High School in the morning and the second takes place at the Mandarin Senior Center from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re here today to help build a consensus on creating an entity that will facilitate with one voice a community of neighborhoods,\u201d Jacksonville City Councilman Michael Boylan (R-District 6) said.<\/p>\n Boylan represents Mandarin. He secured over $150,000 from the District 6 Strategic Initiative fund to hire consultants to help facilitate this grassroots initiative. <\/p>\n Once the group is formed, it would have to be able to stand on its own. <\/p>\n Boylan said the purpose of the entity would be to preserve the character and quality of the neighborhoods, and keep people informed about ongoing issues. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cTo head off the concerns that may be raised \u2026 and the frustration that people have saying, \u2018I didn\u2019t know how to deal with this,\u2019 now they do,\u201d Boylan said.<\/p>\n \u201cI love the idea of this committee to be able to represent our area of Jacksonville,\u201d Fred Pozin said.<\/p>\n Pozin has lived in Mandarin for over 40 years. He said this sort of group would greatly benefit the area.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to bring the community together to be one singular voice, talking to our leadership downtown being able to say \u2018here\u2019s what we want, here\u2019s our vision for our community,\u2019\u201d Pozin said. \u201cI love the idea of this committee to be able to represent our area of Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n Applications to be on the steering committee are open. They are due on August 10. <\/p>\n Those who have questions are asked to contact Lara Diettrich at (904) 501-6622 or by email at ldiettrich@halff.com.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 On Wednesday, the city of Jacksonville held its first two workshops in Mandarin to facilitate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":962099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[15619,5229,386835,45753,48495,6279,3188,723,386836,11561,7310,425,30170,37632,386834,257883,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-962098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_jack","tag-america","tag-area_preservation_project","tag-boylan","tag-councilman","tag-district","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-fred_posen","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-local","tag-madison_foglio","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin_area_preservation_project","tag-michael_boylan","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116991000807387681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}