City of Gainesville, Florida
Office of Mayor-Commissioner Edward L. Jennings, Sr.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall did for a period of one year commencing October 1994, serve as the LAST Chair of the Downtown Redevelopment Agency and did attend many, many, long meetings of the Agency and the City Commission providing his personal and nationally recognized professional input to those meetings; and
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall did for a period of one year commencing October 1995 serve as the FIRST Chair of the Downtown Redevelopment Advisory Board and did attend many more long meetings of the Board and the Community Redevelopment Agency and the City Commission; and
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall had the dubious distinction of serving as the Chair of the Downtown Redevelopment Agency and Advisory Board while they did not have a Community Redevelopment Manager and ended up unintentionally becoming the de facto unpaid Community Redevelopment Manager; and
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall put in personal and professional time above and beyond the normal volunteer's expectations in order to effectively and superlatively represent the interests of Downtown and Fifth Avenue/Pleasant Street before the City and public; and
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall has provided invaluable technical assistance to the City staff and its recommendations on various aspects of redevelopment, site selections and locational analysis; and
WHEREAS, Grant Thrall will always be LAST and FIRST in the hearts and minds of downtown redevelopment memories.
NOW, THEREFORE , I, Edward L. Jennings, Sr., by the authority vested in me as Mayor-Commissioner of the City of Gainesville, do hereby proclaim the LAST day of December 1996 and the FIRST day of January 1997, as
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the official seal of the City of Gainesville, Florida, this 11th day of November, AD, 1996.
Signed
Edward L. Jennings, Sr.
Mayor-Commissioner
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