Mayor Craig Lowe, right, poses with Sen. Bill Nelson on Tuesday.
Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe will visit the White House for two receptions today after spending Tuesday on Capitol Hill meeting with the city’s congressional delegation.
“Since I’m on vacation I may as well work,” Lowe said in a telephone interview from Washington during his self-funded trip.
The receptions are not listed on the White House’s public schedule, but the mayor said the first is a lunch with David Agnew, the deputy director of intergovernmental affairs for the White House. The second will be a nighttime function that Lowe expects President Barack Obama will attend.
On Tuesday, Lowe met with Sen. Bill Nelson, Rep. Cliff Stearns, Rep. Corrine Brown and a member of Sen. Marco Rubio‘s staff, with whom he discussed the process to clean up the Koppers Superfund site and the prospect of getting federal money for the Paynes Prairie sheetflow restoration project. He said he also thanked them for their help in getting a grant to expand the city’s bus maintenance facility.
See photos from the meetings on the mayor’s Facebook page.
