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Recognizing and Celebrating Our Members
This issue of Quality Cities highlights the importance of our members. We are very grateful for your strong commitment to your cities.
We had a successful annual conference in Orlando, and Greg Ross, Mayor of Cooper City, took the President’s helm. We’re excited about his Serving Our Cities initiative. Read about it on p. 32. We also welcomed a new Board of Directors. (See p. 50.) We have other conference coverage in this issue, including John Land Years of Service Awards, the E. Harris Drew Municipal Official Lifetime Achievement Award and information about our First and Second Vice Presidents.
This year, FLC University recognized 131 elected city officials who earned gold, silver or bronze status in the inaugural year of the Certificate Program for Elected Municipal Officials. We include the names of those officials in this issue. (See pages 46-48.)
We’re excited to share information about the winners of this year’s Florida Municipal Achievement Awards. We hope you enjoy the articles about the City of Dunedin, City of Groveland, Town of Jupiter and City of Miami Beach
The League held its first-ever statewide FLC Insurance Summit this year with a strong presence from the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust (FMIT). We highlight the FMIT’s efforts after Hurricane Ian on p. 56. Also, we want to congratulate two other Trusts celebrating important milestones of serving our members. The Florida Municipal Pension Trust Fund (FMPTF) is celebrating 40 years, and the Florida Municipal Investment Trust (FMIvT) is celebrating 30 years. Thank you, members, for your participation.
This issue also mentions several videos posted on our newly redesigned qualitycities.com website. Please check out the city news on the site, and see the “share your story” button to submit your events and videos/photos.
The 2024 Legislative Session begins January 9. We look forward to seeing you at the Legislative Conference on November 30 as we prepare to protect local voices making local choices.
Respectfully,
