The University of Florida board might make a long-awaited determination this week on choosing a web site for a deliberate faculty campus within the downtown Jacksonville space.
UF and the town have been in discussions for the previous two years concerning the college constructing a graduate campus in Jacksonville financed by a mixture of state, metropolis and personal funding.
When the UF Board of Trustees meets for a two-day assembly beginning Thursday, the board’s Governance, Government Relations and Internal Affairs Committee will vote to make a suggestion to the total board for a closing vote on subsequent day on the positioning.
City Council President Terrance Freeman listens as Mark Kaplan, vice chairman of presidency and neighborhood relations on the University of Florida, talks in March final 12 months a couple of potential UF campus in Jacksonville.
An outline of the motion on the committee’s agenda states that “by productive discussions between the college and the town of Jacksonville, the events have recognized a web site that they imagine is right as a web site for the college’s Jacksonville campus.”
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“The University and the town are prepared to right away begin the work essential to finish the switch of the positioning,” reads the word.
The council’s agenda package deal doesn’t establish the positioning. In the previous, areas thought-about had been within the LaVilla space of downtown and the sports activities complicated what is currently the Jacksonville Fairgrounds.
The prospect of a UF campus in Jacksonville has locked in $250 million in funding: $150 million from the state, $50 million from the town of Jacksonville and $50 million from non-public donors.
The University of Florida has a long-standing presence in Jacksonville by UF Health Jacksonville and its educating hospital affiliated with UF’s colleges of drugs, nursing and pharmacy.
This article initially appeared within the Florida Times-Union: The University of Florida board will choose the site for the university’s Jacksonville campus
