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By My Nassau Sun
Aug 23, 2008
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Tropical Storm Fay
The waiting game
Flooding was the primary concern for Nassau County Emergency officials Thursday evening as slow-moving tropical storm Fay finally started its move westward after stalling over the Atlantic for most of Wednesday and Thursday.
"We are still looking at all these bands of rain coming in, and given the slowness of the system, it's going to keep pushing against us until it wears itself out," Emergency Management Director Nancy Freeman said.
Given that officials began the week bracing for a hurricane, Freeman said damage was fairly minimal as of Thursday. There were reports of power outages and several downed trees but no injuries.
Nassau County offices and courts were closed on Thursday and Friday, as were public schools.
The storm suspended early voting in Nassau on Thursday and Friday, but voting was expected to resume today.
Moving to Peck
Fernandina Beach City Commissioners gave City Manager Michael Czymbor the go-ahead Tuesday to proceed with plans to move the city's Finance and Information Technology departments into the Peck Community Center once they're approved by the Peck Center Committee.
Southside residents raised concerns about the best use of the center, located in the former all-black Peck High School, after the city notified three Nassau County nonprofits - Communities in Schools of Nassau County, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nassau County and Nassau Habitat for Humanity - in June that they might have to leave if the city needed the space. City Attorney Tammi Bach already is based in the Peck Center.
Czymbor this week presented a plan calling for all the nonprofits currently housed in the center, including the Amelia Arts Academy, the Housing Assistance Corp. and the Northeast Florida Community Action Agency, to stay but with CIS and Habitat moving into smaller spaces. The center's library, reception room and auditorium would be untouched.
However, as part of the reshuffle, the arts academy will lose its Studio 7, a roughly 670-square-foot room used for piano and dance lessons, choral practice and music storage.
Academy Executive Director Richard Dickson told commissioners the loss would create hardships for the arts school, but that it could work around the space issues if there were regular and permanent access to the center's auditorium.
The Peck Center Committee is scheduled to discuss the plan when it meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Peck Center.
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