BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – 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.”
Gainesville City Manager Andrew Persons said the meeting was “really just an information opportunity, to share information in terms of the work that the City has done to date on the Cultural Arts Center.” He reminded Commissioners that the City Commission declared in February 2023 that gun violence is a public health crisis. That declaration led to the One Nation One Project work that “recognized the role of arts programming in improving community health and preventing gun violence.”…