City manager to outline vision for UF and Gainesville alignment at breakfast

March 8, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gainesville City Manager Russ Blackburn will speak at the March 14 Community Campus Council Breakfast on the topic “Vision Alignment: City and University Collaborative Efforts to Achieve Top-10 Status.”

Blackburn will discuss how the success of the City of Gainesville and the University of Florida is inextricably linked by commonalities within their organizational visions; outline significant city actions in partnership with the university to foster a healthy, vibrant city and economy; and identify future opportunities for greater cooperation.

The program begins at 7:30 a.m. with a breakfast in the Arredondo Room of the Reitz Student Union. The $5 buffet is payable at the door.

For more information, call Florida Bridgewater-Alford at 352-846-3903 or e-mail her at bridgefl@ufl.edu.