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Proposed Modifications to the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act (B)
The Countywide Visioning and Planning Committee (CVPC) has created a task force for modifying the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act (BAA). City staff has reviewed the BAA, and is proposing limited modifications.
Explanation
On January 24, 2008, the newly re-instituted Countywide Visioning and Planning Committee held its first meeting with Commissioners Craig Lowe and Scherwin Henry serving as Gainesville's representatives on the Committee. The CVPC is chaired by County Commission Chairman Rodney Long.
In the effort to collectively look at the BAA, each municipality in Alachua County was asked to provide a letter to Chairman Long with their position on potential changes to or elimination of the BAA. The City Commission discussed this issue at the regular February 25, 2008 City Commission meeting.
At the March 6, 2008 CVPC meeting, each municipal representative on the CVPC presented their particular municipality's position on the BAA and provided the Committee with comments. Based on the input received from the City representatives, the overall consensus was to keep the BAA and provide modifications. Chairman Long appointed a task force consisting of five individuals (two city representatives in favor of the BAA, two representatives against the BAA, and one neutral member) to work on possible modifications to the BAA. The following CVPC members were appointed by Chairman Long to the task force: Jean Calderwood (Chair/City of Alachua), John Glanzer (Newberry), Jim Gabriel (High Springs), Craig Lowe (Gainesville), and Kit Randall (Hawthorne).
The Task Force has scheduled a series of meetings in April with the intent of bringing back their BAA modifications and recommendations to the CVPC during the first week of May.
The current plan for modification of the BAA includes a request from Representative Debbie Boyd that each city have a town hall meetin...
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