May 2021 New Member

The following membership applications have been received. If no current member comes forth with a reason why these applicants should not be approved as members, he/she will be invoiced for dues. Brooke Bailey, District VII, Management Analyst, City of Largo, Affiliate Member; Cynthia Barber, District I, Deputy City Manager, City of Tallahassee, Full Member; Jennifer…

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April 2021 President’s Message

Well, there is t-minus one month until FCCMA’s biggest event of the Program Year: the FCCMA Annual Conference. Now I know many of you are excited to get back to an in-person event for the first time in more than a year, but before we get there, I need to carry out one of my duties…

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A Path Forward:  How Alachua County is Engaging in a Public Conversation on Truth and Reconciliation

By Gina Peebles, Assistant County Manager – Chief of Staff, Alachua County In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened a public museum and memorial in Montgomery, AL for the 4,400+ African Americans who were lynched between 1877 and 1950.  In Florida alone, 317 documented lynchings occurred (https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore).  While 18 are recorded on the…

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