Newsletter End of 2013
LAND LINES Promised Lands Officers Anthony Palermo, AICP Chair VACANT Vice Chair Jacqueline Genson, AICP Secretary Jason Green, AICP Treasurer Alexis Crespo, AICP Immediate Past Chair Joseph D. Irvin, AICP Professional Development Officer Professional Development/Events Standing Committee Fred Reischl, AICP Jennifer Pellechio Josh Overmyer, CFM
Thank you for celebrating with us at the Promised Lands Annual Meeting & Holiday Social at Bahama Breeze in Fort Myers. A very nice tradition continues. With help from the Calusa Section Florida Planning and Zoning Association, we collected money and made a $126 cash donation to the Harry Chapin Food Bank of SW Florida. Thank you to FPZA and Tina Ekblad, AICP, for co-sponsoring this celebration once again. Congratulations are due to the Roland Eastwood Planner of the Year Julia B. Davis, AICP. She was a fantastic choice for this honor, and was thrilled with the recognition at the holiday social. Julia is the President of Omnibus Innovations Group, Inc. of Cape Coral and is a consultant on transportation disadvantaged programs and transit planning. She is also the unofficial leader of Reconnecting Lee, an advocacy group for good planning and professional development programming in Lee County. Julia recently retired from Florida Department of Transportation's District One office in Fort Myers. She has a distinguished career in planning - including service at the SW Florida Regional Planning Council and Lee Tran. This event also gave us a chance to recognize our immediate past Chair Alexis Crespo, AICP and thank her for her years of service to the Section and to her fellow planners.
We were also sad to say good-bye to Roxanne Reed, our Section's Vice Chair, who is headed to Tallahassee with her family. Charlotte County and the Promised Lands Section will miss her presence greatly. She was a great VP and we wish Legislative Committee Kathleen Oppenheimer Berkey, Esq., her all our best. AICP
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APA FLORIDA ANNUAL SPONSORS Theriaque & Spain
Our Section - stretching from DeSoto, Glades, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, and Hendry - is 177 persons strong. In 2013 we gained a few new members, after a few rough years of bleeding membership. New members are always welcome to join us, or rejoin us. Plans are underway for our APA State Conference in Jacksonville in September 2014. Kathie Ebaugh, AICP, from our Lee County Planning Division is leading the way again as our state's Vice President of Conference Services. Personally I'm looking forward to attending the APA Florida Executive Committee retreat in the Pensacola area in February, even though it is over the hills and (very) far away. The retreat will also give Kathie and me a chance to attend the APA Public Policy Workshop - a short drive away in Tallahassee February 4-5, 2014.Check out the APA Florida website for more information about that.