Florida Governor Charlie Crist Reappoints Two South Florida Regional Planning Council Members
Dec 13, 2010
Above: City of Hollywood Commissioner Patty Asseff and former City of Coral Springs Mayor Scott Brook were reappointed by Florida Governor Charlie Crist to the South Florida Regional Planning Council today, December 13, 2010.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist re-appointed two members of the South Florida Regional Planning Council (Region 11) today, December 13, 2010.
- Patricia Asseff, 64, of Hollywood, realtor, Coldwell Banker, reappointed for a term beginning December 13, 2010, and ending October 1, 2013
- Scott Brook, 46, of Coral Springs, self-employed attorney, reappointed for a term beginning December 13, 2010, and ending October 1, 2012
Florida Senate confirmation is required to finalize the Governor’s action.
About Florida’s Regional Planning Councils
Florida law establishes that the problems of growth and development often transcend the boundaries of individual units of local general-purpose government. Often, no single unit can formulate plans or implement policies for their solution without affecting other units in their geographic area.
Thus, Florida’s lawmakers have determined that there exists a need for regional planning agencies to assist local governments to resolve their common problems, engage in areawide comprehensive and functional planning, administer certain federal and state grants-in-aid and provide a regional focus in regard to multiple programs undertaken on an areawide basis.
To avoid the proliferation of overlapping, duplicating and competing regional agencies, legislators felt that federal and state programs should have coordinated purposes and consistent policy direction and established a common system of regional planning councils for areawide coordination and related cooperative activities of federal, state and local governments. The planning councils ensure a broad-based regional organization that can provide a truly regional perspective and also enhance the ability and opportunity of local governments to resolve issues and problems transcending their individual boundaries.
Florida’s regional planning councils are designated as the primary organizations to address problems and plan solutions that are of greater-than-local concern or scope. Therefore, they are recognized by local governments as one of the means to provide input into state policy development.
Councils do not act as a permitting or regulatory entity, but do assist local governments with activities designed to promote and facilitate economic development in the geographic areas they cover.
The South Florida Regional Planning Council, which leads the South Florida region of Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, is composed of 19 voting members including county and municipal elected officials and Governor’s appointees. The Council has a five-member Executive Committee consisting of council officers and the immediate past chairman.
Its Executive Committee, in conjunction with the remaining 14 members, constitute the full Council. Three additional ex-officio members representing the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection also sit on the Council.
To view the complete South Florida Regional Planning Council membership, click here.
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