Katherine Weitz will represent Alachua County’s outlying municipalities during a one-year term on the Gainesville-Alachua County Joint Water and Climate Policy Board.
The board’s six current members appointed Weitz by a vote of 4-1 today, with Mayor Harvey Ward absent.
The seat has been vacant since early 2023 following the departure of Hawthorne’s Patricia Bouie-Hutchinson, then a City Commissioner and now Vice Mayor. Former High Springs Commissioner Byran Williams briefly filled the role in September 2024, but left before the board’s next meeting…