Letter to the editor
With less than 65 days to go before City of Gainesville voters get a chance to vote on yet another GRU governance ballot question, let’s take some time to provide an update on the legal proceedings churning along behind the scenes.
First, the Gainesville Regional Utilities Authority (GRUA) is in the process of appealing the decision delivered by Judge Wright of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, in which he could not find a state law that precluded the City of Gainesville (City) from changing its charter. What I find so disturbing is that rather than waiting for the appeal process to play out, the City is attempting to use the referendum to dissolve the GRUA before the appeal is even heard…