WE MEET AT THE RIVER CITY BREWING CO.
Lunch begins at noon - Meeting starts at 12:30 p.m.
Lunch begins at noon - Meeting starts at 12:30 p.m.
Welcome Jerry Holland, Supervisor of Elections
Duval County’s Supervisor of Elections Office is one of the first counties in Florida to return to a complete paper ballot trail for all voters, fulfilling a promise by Holland. In 2006, our office completed the Election Center to better serve each voter in Duval County. In 2007, our office installed the Relia-Vote absentee mailing equipment, a system to lower the cost and yet speed up the absentee voting process while also allowing each absentee ballot to be tracked through the postal system.
Throughout Holland’s three consecutive terms, his office has registered 43,185 students in Countywide Student Voter Registration Drives held each school year. Holland’s goal is to introduce students to the electoral process to strengthen the foundation of our Democracy and to continue educating future generations.
Jerry Holland continues to assess the distribution and locations of precincts throughout Duval County to more evenly allocate the number of registered voters per precinct. Within the three consecutive terms, he has established early voting sites throughout the city, made each of the 250 precincts ADA accessible and secured AutoMARK voting machines with capabilities to assist all voters. Each of these initiatives is in an effort to make voting more accessible to everyone.
Holland served as the 2002-2003 President of City Council during his first term on the Council. In 2003 and 2004, he also served as President of the Northeast Florida Regional Council representing the seven counties in northeast Florida. Holland sponsored legislation that addressed many important issues facing our city. He drafted the legislation that completely re-wrote our Animal Control laws. He proposed the legislation that provided an additional twenty-five thousand dollars of homestead exemption for low income seniors. Holland is often thanked for his legislation that approved the purchasing of thermal image cameras for all fire stations allowing rescue personnel to find citizens in burning buildings. He brought forth legislation providing for a Drive Education Safety Trust Fund when the program was in jeopardy of being dropped. To maintain the Veterans’ Memorial Wall Monument, Holland introduced legislation allowing the wall to exist in its current location and then design a park surrounding the wall after the razing of the old coliseum.
Holland earned his Master’s degree in Education and his Bachelor of Business Administration in Transportation and Logistics from the University of North Florida. He was selected as the University of North Florida 2008 Outstanding Alumnus for the College of Education and Human Resources. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Data Processing from Jones College and is a graduate of Fletcher Senior High School.
In 2008, he received the Civil Rights Restoration Community Award given by the Jacksonville Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity. In 2009, Holland received the Business Diplomat of the Year Award given by the International Visitors Corp of Jacksonville. Over the past three consecutive terms in office Holland has had the privilege of hosting foreign delegates from 32 countries. Each visiting delegate had the opportunity to contribute in a discussion of our electoral process and see how to protect voting rights, encourage voter registration and oversee voting to guarantee fair and accurate elections. In 2010, Holland graduated with an Elections/Registration Administrator (CERA) certificate through the Elections Center’s Professional Education Program. His goal is to preserve and accelerate public trust in the democratic process by providing elections with transparency and integrity.
In his spare time Holland raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by running marathons. He has successfully completed four marathons.
Holland and his wife, Beverly, have one son, Brian married to Kylie. They recently became the proud grandparents of their first grandchild. He and his wife have been members of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville since 1978.
Minutarian Minute Week 5
Our District’s Light Up Rotary Seminar is fired up and ready to do exactly what the name implies – Light Up Rotary! There are many avenues of service in Rotary and this seminar will touch on several of them. The major topics include Foundation, Membership, Public Image and New Generations. We are also including our Rotaract leaders in several of the New Generation sessions. If your club sponsors a Rotaract Club please let the leaders in that Rotaract Club know they are invited to attend sessions designed specifically for Rotaract. In respect for the younger generations need to sleep on a Saturday morning, their sessions will start just before lunch!
For the rest of us, plan to arrive around 8:30am. We are fortunate to have Rotary International Director Robert Hall join us. He will be our keynote speaker at lunch. The seminar will conclude at 3:00pm.
So please join us on Saturday, August 16th, at the Thrasher-Horne Center on the Orange Park Campus of St. Johns River State College. You can register by going to the District Events column on the home page of our District’s website: www.rotary6970.org. There you will also find more detailed information about the seminar.
Other Upcoming Events:
• On Saturday, October 11th, the Rotary Leadership Institute will hold its first sessions for the year at the Orange Park Campus of St. Johns River State College. More information is available on our District’s website.
Yours in service to Rotary,
Percy
District Governor 2014-2015
Rotary International District 6970
Our newest
Rotarian - Diane Pauly
Sponsor, Bob Massey (L), Pres Bill Jaycox and PP Mike Darragh welcome Diane to the club.
Meet Jill Moore
A $22k check from the proceeds of the Alhambra event was presented to Builder's Care
Meet Jill Moore
Jill is Vice President, Mortgage Originator for EverBank where she has worked for 15 years. Jill was born in Michigan
and moved to Jacksonville in 1978. Most of her family has migrated this
way as well. She has been married for 14 years to Donald Moore and she has a 23 year old son
that is
about to graduate from UNF and is currently working at Capital Grill.
Their family enjoys traveling and have been to Banff Canada, Hawaii, CA and NY. Typically they enjoy long weekends in Savannah or St. Augustine.
Jill loves to run, ride bikes, work out and spend time with her family.
Pictures from the July 29th Meeting
A $22k check from the proceeds of the Alhambra event was presented to Builder's Care
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