A.G. Gancarski
Though the HRO Committee of the Whole fireworks will heat up Council Chambers Thursday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will be walking a Westside neighborhood instead of being on hand for the procedural drama.
Curry’s spokeswoman, Marsha Oliver, said this is part of the mayor’s weekly commitment to “engage with citizens,” by visiting neighborhoods, meeting residents, and hearing their concerns.
The choice of the neighborhood, near Playschool Drive in the Jacksonville Heights area, was the No. 2 priority of the Sheriff’s Office, in terms of neighborhoods that need stabilization; Curry will be accompanied by the ShAdCo head for that area.
Before his walk last week in the Moncrief Road area, Curry spoke about what these forays into neighborhoods are intended to do.
Curry, noting his gratefulness to the media for covering the relaunch of Jax Journey, renewed his earlier pledge to “invest in neighborhoods.”
“We’re here and committed to make sure it’s happening,” the mayor said.
“We’re about getting things done. This sends a message to neighborhoods [that] we care and are looking out for them. We’re here and we’re ready to take action” on a “whole lot of neglect over the years.”
