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Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward and GRU CEO Ed Bielarski discussed an upcoming referendum on the control of the city-owned utility at a town hall.

The referendum will ask voters if control of Gainesville Regional Utilities should return to the city commission from a state-appointed authority.

This is the second special election on the issue in a year after a previous vote was nullified due to misleading ballot language.

Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward and Gainesville Regional Utilities CEO Ed Bierlarski met in a rare joint public appearance at a town hall on Oct. 28 to discuss next week's referendum that will once again ask voters to decide the future of the GRU Authority board .

The authority was given control over the city-owned utility after the Florida L

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