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WEEKEND Basketball Acting Music Fest EVENTS tonight Your Age opens tonight PAGES 8, 10A PAGE 1B PAGE 2B $1.00 FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020 / 16 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS • fbnewsleader.com City wants new digs JULIA ROBERTS these functions where feasible.” News-Leader “I believe we want to keep it down- town,” Kreger said. Fernandina Beach’s City Hall is not Faced with dwindling options, the large enough to accommodate the entire commission considered earlier this city staff, so the City Commission is month and again Tuesday paying nearly looking at options to find or build a new $40,000 to Bhide & Hall Architects to facility. evaluate its remaining choices for City Until recently, commissioners had Hall and make a recommendation. been considering four options on the City Manager Dale Martin alterna- table: buying the U.S. Post Office build- tively suggested the city issue a Request ing on Centre Street; moving City Hall to For Qualifications for a “needs analysis” the Peck Center, which already houses to determine what size and type of facil- some city staff; remodeling the current ity the city needs. City Hall at 204 Ash St.; or construct- Commissioner Chip Ross suggested JULIA ROBERTS/NEWS-LEADER ing a new building on a city-owned lot inquiring about the building that cur- City officials go over a “punch list,” checking the utilities Thursday on the three docks at the Fernandina directly across South Second Street from rently houses the Nassau County School Harbor Marina before the southern basin of the marina reopens today. The entire marina has been closed the current City Hall. District’s administrative offices at 1201 for repairs since October 2018. Some of the options were discussed Atlantic Ave., but Commissioner Mike at Tuesday’s regular commission meet- Lednovich countered that trying to pur- ing. chase the district property, which is a In August, the U.S. Postal Service former school and has several outbuild- Southern basin open at marina told the city flatly that its Centre Street ings currently used for storage, is point- building is not for sale, so the city less. JULIA ROBERTS Commission meeting, City Manager in contact with boaters displaced by the removed that option from its list. “The likelihood of that school prop- News-Leader Dale Martin said Bronson Lamb, the repairs in October of 2018 and also with Then, Vice Mayor Len Kreger point- erty, of them selling it to us, that’s the project manager for the repairs at the many new boaters on the marina slips ed out that the city’s Comprehensive post office chase, chapter 2, so why even The southern basin of the marina, recommended the opening of waiting list. We have scheduled boats Plan addresses keeping “public servic- spend any money going down that path?” Fernandina Harbor Marina began the three docks in the southern basin. to begin coming in Friday. Westrec and es” in the historic district, which is in Lednovich asked. “When you hire some- receiving boats today and will be full Lamb told Martin that some minor the local marina staff are prepared and section 11.03.19 of the document: “The one to do a needs assessment, they go during the 2020 Isle of Eight Flags “punch list” items the contractor con- ready to provide the first-class experi- City shall encourage retention of essen- all over the map. I cannot believe that Shrimp Festival, according to Marina tinues to work on would not have any ence ‘Florida’s First and Last Stop’ has tial public services, such as a post office, between (the current City Hall) being Manager Joe Springer. The expect- effect on boaters using the docks. come to be known for.” He said boaters library and other government functions, renovated and building a new structure ed opening for transient boaters is “We are thrilled with the news,” wanting to get on the waiting list can in the historic downtown district, and March 1. Springer said. “Westrec (the company encourage reuse of historic buildings for DIGS Continued on 6A At the Jan. 21 Fernandina Beach City that manages the marina) staff has been MARINA Continued on 6A ‘Three Rivers’ development is now called ‘Tributary’ GreenPointe Developers LLC of “It should be noted that these Jacksonville has announced construc- amounts are in 2005 dollars and will 3,200 homes plus park, school site coming to county tion is underway on “Tributary,” the have to be adjusted for inflation,” states new name for the long-planned Three the project’s documentation. Rivers Developers LLC project totaling “The $3.5 million will go to the coun- almost 1,600-acres in Nassau County, a ty, and the county and the applicant are development that has navigated state, going to pick a project – it has to be a regional, and local planning and nego- state road, but we can pick the project tiations for the past 15 years. The new between all of us – for that money to community is being built 1.6 miles west go to and the county has the control,” of Interstate 95 along State Road 200/ Attorney Emily Pierce, representing A1A. Three Rivers, said at the time. In 2006, the Nassau County Board Using U.S. government Consumer of County Commissioners approved a Price Index data, $3.5 million in 2005 Development of Regional Impact for the dollars, adjusted for inflation, is $4.5 mil- proposed development with a stipulation lion as of December 2019. requiring the developer, Three Rivers Nassau County’s principal planner, Timber LLC to commit to a $12 million Doug McDowell confirmed the $3.5 mil- financial contribution to fund transporta- lion amount, but a question about the tion improvements to offset the impacts project’s documentation referencing of the development to the regional trans- inflation and the county possibly being portation system, according to previous be owed more than that amount was not News-Leader reports. But in 2011, after answered by the press deadline. languishing during the Great Recession, “In Resolution 2015-64, the propor- Three Rivers applied for a reduction in tionate share contribution of (approxi- the $12 million payment and the request mately) $3.5 million must be received was approved by all involved agencies, prior to any construction in Phase 2 of including the state Department of the DRI. Phase 1 of the DRI includes Transportation, the regional planning 1,400 residential units and 200,000 sq. ft. council and Nassau County Planning of commercial. Any construction beyond and Zoning Board. that would require the contribution to In 2015, the state’s order to contrib- be paid at that time,” McDowell wrote ute $12 million toward transportation in an email. improvements was reduced from $12.5 GREENPOINTE DEVELOPERS LLC million to $3.5 million. TRIBUTARY Continued on 5A Callahan family searches for missing woman KATHIE COLGROVE was in a relationship with Jerry Randall deny whether she was seen by anyone Community Newspapers, Inc. Salis III. other than possibly Salis, according to The 37-year-old Salis lives on the family. A Callahan family wants their loved Sycamore Street not too far from Ratliff Calls to her cell phone go straight to one to return home. and Morris roads near the Nassau voicemail, so family members don’t know Katherine Melissa Bodden Gelaro, County line, according to the Bodden if the phone is operable. Law enforce- 47, is missing. She goes by Melissa family. ment officers recovered Melissa’s 2013 Bodden. He appeared in Duval County court Hyundai Elantra last week. The last time dad Henry Bodden saw on Dec. 24, the day before Bodden’s fam- “They found her car, but they’re not his daughter was around 9 p.m. Dec. 19. ily contacted the Nassau County Sheriff’s telling me where they found it,” Bodden Bodden, who lives with her dad and two Office to report her missing. said. “The keys were still in the car.” adult sons, was only supposed to be Salis faces charges of burglary, car Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper going out for a little while. theft, grand theft, drug possession, and told the Nassau County Record Tuesday “She went and took a shower, got possession of a firearm by a convicted that the car was found in Jacksonville dressed and said she’d be right back,” felon. Law enforcement officials have and is at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office he said Monday evening. “I don’t know not said whether Salis is a person of impound lot now. where she went. If I knew, I’d go get interest in Bodden’s disappearance. “We are working closely with the her.” He was arrested after bounty hunters Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in trying to The family reported her missing apprehended him as he came out of the locate her,” Leeper said. Dec. 25 when she wasn’t home to spend woods near Sycamore Street. There was Calls to JSO and the Nassau County Christmas with them. a warrant out for his arrest, according to detective on the case were not returned She has also missed her Jan. 12 birth- online news reports. by press time. day, which she shares with her oldest Melissa Bodden may have been in Friends of Melissa Bodden started a son. the vicinity of Sycamore Street on Dec. SUBMITTED Before her disappearance, Bodden 23, but investigators won’t confirm or MISSING Continued on 5A Katherine Melissa Bodden Gelaro INDEX RELIGION, 4B LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS CLASSIFIEDS, 6B SCHOOL NEWS, 3B The Fernandina Beach Jaycees COMMUNITY, 5B SERVICE DIRECTORY, 6B joined the Nassau County School EDITORIAL, 7A SUDOKU, 2B Board in calling for a referendum to OBITUARIES, 2A SPORTS, 8A change the superintendent’s job to OUT AND ABOUT, 2B WEEKEND, 2B be an appointed position.