HOME FEDERAL <HFBF.O> SETS SHAREHOLDER MEETING Home Federal Bank of Florida F.S.B. <HFBF.O> said it has scheduled a special shareholders meetng for July 26 to approve proposed changes to the bank's charter and merge with Barnett Bank Inc's Barnett Bank of Pinellas County, N.A. Home Federal said the meeting is to approve a definitive agreement signed May 26, calling for each share of Home Federal's common stock to be exchanged for about 40 dlrs in market value of Barnett common stock. The exchange would be based on conversion of Home Federal shares of not less than 1.935 or more than 1.200 shares of Barnett stocks. At 40 dlrs a share, Home Federal said the total market value of the transaction would be about 175 mln dlrs. Home Federal said notice of the meeting and related proxy materials, which has been filed previously with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Home Loan Bank board, were mailed on June 26, to holders of record on June 15.