Mayor-Elect Donna Deegan, the first woman to be elected mayor of Jacksonville, will be officially sworn in to office Saturday amid two days of celebrations of the historic event.
The inauguration events, which all require tickets, kicked off Friday morning with the Mayor’s Inaugural Prayer Breakfast at the Garden Club of Jacksonville in Riverside. The interfaith event included Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders wishing the new mayor well.
Deegan spoke with News4JAX after the breakfast about her latest staff selections, which include former City Councilman Garrett Dennis, a Democrat, and outgoing Republican Councilman Al Ferraro, who also ran for mayor -- against Deegan. “I hope that I have set the table pretty well for how I’m going to proceed. We are going to have a lot of diversity. We’re going to have a lot of across the aisle conversation in the mayor’s office in the appointments that I make,” Deegan said. “I want to bring diverse voices into the room, people of every political persuasion, so that we could have good conversations to bring the community and I’m so far very pleased with it.
The breakfast was followed Friday by the Mayor’s Inaugural Kick-Off Celebration at 5:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront.Deegan will be sworn in during a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Jacoby Symphony Hall at the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 300 Water St. Tickets to the free event are “sold out.” To join the waitlist,The Mayor’s Inaugural Ball will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at The River Club at One Independent Drive, Suite 3500.
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