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Monday, March 20, 2017
| Donna Fiala, Collier County Board Chair | |
| Location: | IWCA Clubhouse |
| Time: | 10:15am |
| Description: | Collier County Commissioner Fiala presents an informative update as to events and developments happening in and around Collier County. She was elected Commissioner of Collier County District 1 in 2000 and ran unopposed in 2004 and 2008 for re-election. In 2003, 2008 and 2015 she served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners and served as the Board’s liaison to the County Government Productivity Committee. In 2003 and 2009 she served as Chairman of the Board and the Tourist Development Council. Commissioner Fiala was elected for a fourth term in 2012 and has announced that she will run again for a fifth term in 2016. If elected, she will be the only Commissioner in recent Collier County history to serve more than four terms.
As Commissioner:
• A Certified County Commissioner by the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) and appointed to the FAC Board of Directors to help guide the state wide agency representing all 67 Florida counties in adopting bylaw changes, monitoring finances and making other decisions to direct the association. • Since 2000, served as the chair of the Local Coordinating Board for the Transportation Disadvantaged, overseeing the 17 member board that develops local service needs and provides advice and direction to the Community Transportation Coordinator to serve the needs of citizens who are unable to drive due to medical and a variety of other issues. • Served as a member of the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (SWFRPC). • In July 2015, nominated and appointed to the National Association of Counties’ Environment, Energy and Land Use (EELU) Steering Committee representing Collier County and the State of Florida for matters pertaining to air, water, energy, and land use, including water resources/management, storm water, pesticides, air quality standards, climate change, solid, hazardous, and nuclear waste handling, transport, and disposal, national energy policy, renewable/alternative energy, alternative fuel vehicles, energy facility siting, electricity utility restructuring, pipeline safety, oil spills, superfund/brownfields, eminent domain, land use, coastal management, oceans, parks and recreation. I
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