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Cynthia Curry is resigning as Gainesville's city manager after starting in an interim role in November 2021.
A major challenge during her tenure was the state-mandated transition of Gainesville Regional Utilities to a new authority.
Curry denies her resignation is linked to a recent state financial review, stating it was simply the right time to leave.
When Cynthia Curry started as Gainesville's interim city manager in November 2021, the city was in turmoil.
Curry said the problems stemmed from years of unstable city management, which led to incomplete financial reporting and questionable programming. That prompted a visit in 2022 from the office of the Florida Auditor General and a Florida Joint Legislative Auditing Commitee (JLAC) that discovered substantial p