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FCCMA Presentation – Working with your UF/IFAS Extension Office – April 6, 2023

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Working with your UF/IFAS Extension Office April 6, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
ICMA Practice Areas: 4, 6, 8 and 14
Program Summary:The University of Florida is one of two land grant universities in the State of Florida and one of the nation’s top five public universities. With 67 offices in every county in Florida, UF/IFAS provides educational resources and support to citizens, organizations and public institutions across the state. This webinar will provide attendees with greater knowledge of the resources available to you locally through your Extension office and how to access the services of the University and how your municipality can access these services provided by the University to improve the quality of life for your residents.
Panelists: Pete Cavalli, Founder/Principal, Tampa Bay Training Jp Gellermann, Director, UF/IFAS Pinellas County Extension
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FCCMA – Senior Advisor Program

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This is a great resource with some of the best professional I have met in my career. Their mentorship, guidance and friendships have been invaluable. Don’t let this program be FCCMA’s best kept secret… Spread the word.

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Strategic Planning in Small Communities – FCCMA

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Strategic Planning in Small Communities

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Like everything else in the time of the pandemic, strategic planning has become more difficult. Between the intensely partisan and divisive politics of 2020 and the complete uncertainty of budget numbers, thinking about mission statements or visionary goals seems superfluous to many elected officials and nonsensical to others. Elected officials find themselves inundated at public hearings by residents demanding answers to national COVID policies, when the virus will be stopped, or when they can go back to their regular life. Residents want to debate the merits of critical race theory and how to address an individual’s preferred pronouns in school. Meanwhile, making sure basic services or needs are met or that employees have what is needed to do their work becomes secondary to the headline of the day or the budget crisis du jour. Source

The Guest House – Rumi

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A colleague at the FCCMA / ICMA distributed this poem, from the 13th century, name the Guest House by Rumi. It resonated with me and I had to share. As with all great works, I will let you find the meaning you derive from it. However, I think it especially imported for executive to read. Enjoy.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.