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From the President
Engagement is Key in Serving Our Cities
Congratulations on a successful 2024 Legislative Session!
You played a pivotal role in our accomplishments this session through your meaningful engagement and respectful dialogue. Your intentional collaboration with the state legislators, as well as your expanded education, certainly paid off.
Local voices making local choices continues to be at risk. However, thanks to the work you and our legislative team put in this session, we were able to stop several preemption bills including those that attempted to diminish our revenue sources. You shared your stories with our legislators and asked them to let cities do their job, and it worked.
We also had many wins this session that were a priority of the Legislative Platform that we set at the Legislative Conference. (See p. 44 for the conference recap.) Many of you played important roles as leaders and members of the Florida League of Cities (FLC) policy and advocacy committees. (See committee lists beginning on p. 28.) You served as ambassadors for the League’s Local Voices United effort. (See article, p. 49.) United, we advocated on behalf of Florida’s cities as one, and the success was evident. (Read the full outcome of the legislative session on p. 25.)
The League will continue to provide resources to help us navigate even the toughest situations while we serve our cities. Let’s stay involved by attending the monthly FLCitiesStrong webinars and Annual Conference in August. (See our Conference Save the Date information on the next page.)
Thank you for embracing my Serving Our Cities initiative and joining me in this commitment to educate ourselves so we can be the strong leaders our cities need. Through your advocacy, we have fostered stronger relationships with legislators, safeguarded the interests of our cities and achieved remarkable progress.
Together, we will positively shape the future of the cities we serve.
