{"id":6482,"date":"2015-02-03T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2015-02-14T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:27:24","slug":"jim-tolbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/jim-tolbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Tolbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6483\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141029-Jim-Tolbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141029-Jim-Tolbert.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Tolbert at work\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141029-Jim-Tolbert.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141029-Jim-Tolbert-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141029-Jim-Tolbert-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighborhood Development Services director Jim Tolbert is headed south to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvilletomorrow.org\/news\/article\/19893-tolbert-out-as-city-development-director\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new job in Georgia<\/a>.<br \/>\nJim has been in charge of the department that oversees the fate of neighborhoods so we&#8217;ve had much contact over the years.<br \/>\nHis is a critically important, tough position which he has handled with grace and good humor. I will miss him.<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s last official words to me were encouraging, about getting long standing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicwoolenmills.org\/090324\/verbatim.html\" target=\"_blank\">zoning issues<\/a> rectified. That work now falls to his successor.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-ville.com\/will-departure-citys-development-chief-mean-big-changes-city-hall\/#.VND2VMaHjoF\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Tolbert&#8217;s departure<\/a> I hope we can find an owner&#8217;s manual for the City.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6474\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/box.jpg\" alt=\"30 x1028 px box\" width=\"1028\" height=\"30\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/box.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/box-300x9.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/box-1024x30.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8qFvo2qJOU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city, sixth-largest in the state with a 2010 population of 93,853, wanted to separate itself from what it saw<br \/>\n as wasteful government spending in surrounding communities. The city benefits greatly, though, from the number of Fortune 500<br \/>\ncompanies headquartered there, boasting an extremely high per capita income, with the median family household income,<br \/>\naccording to a 2008 census estimate, approximated at $129,810, and the average family income $169,815.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/22\/sandy-springs-georgia-privatize-outsource_n_852466.html\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quickfacts.census.gov\/qfd\/states\/13\/1368516.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy Springs<\/a>, Mr.Tolbert&#8217;s new town, has a considerably different socio-economic profile and governmental services structure than Charlottesville.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,34,12,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-government","category-neighborhood","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}