MediaUpdate

​At the December 10 Joint City of Gainesville/Alachua County Commission meeting, Gainesville City Commissioner Desmon Duncan-Walker presented her vision for a Cultural Arts Center, and although there are no funds allocated to the project, County Commissioners indicated that they are “all in.”

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​​Alachua County and the city of Gainesville recently announced office closure and service schedules in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day.

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​Health departments in Alachua and Marion counties have issued multiple rabies alerts in the past month, demonstrating the rampant run of the disease amongst wild animals in North Central Florida.

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​ At the December 10 Joint City of Gainesville/Alachua County Commission meeting, Commissioners discussed the County’s food system initiatives and heard an update on their efforts to provide emergency food assistance in response to an early-November suspension in SNAP funding.

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​The Gainesville and Alachua County Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization (MTPO) voted to offer Anoch Whitfield, a deputy director at the city of Ocoee, the position of executive director to guide the organization into its next phase. 

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