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Legislative Advocacy Committee |
The
purpose is to advocate
for legislative priorities established by the Community Alliance. The
Alliance has adopted eleven legislative priorities for FY 2009:
- Juvenile Assessment
Center Funding
- Increase or Maintain
Funding for Key Services Targeting Older Adults, Particularly Frail
Older Adults
- Protect Existing and
Increase Older Adult Transportation Funding, Particularly for Low-Income
Older Adults
- Revise F.S. Section
617.0802, “Qualifications of Directors” for Non-Profit Agencies
- Additional Housing
for Low-income Retirees
- Promote the Ability
of the Physically Challenged to Socialize and to "Age in Place"
- Proposal to Add $1
Per Pack Tax to Cigarettes
- Potential of Cuts to
Human Services
- Nonrecurring Funding
for Mothers and Infants Program
- Nonrecurring Funding
for FETC and Compass Center
- Expansion of Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Program
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Legislative Advocacy Member:
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Janice Mee (Co-chair), Interested Citizen
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Caroline Zucker
(Co-chair), School Board of Sarasota County
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Ken Alexander, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
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Rose Chapman,
Jewish Family and Children's Services
- Larry Eger, Public Defender, Twelfth
Judicial Circuit
- Dr. Kay Glasser,
Glasser Schoenbaum Human
Services Center
- Bill Little, Sarasota County Health and Human
Services
- Dr. Jerry Thompson, Coastal Behavioral Health,
Inc.
- Marsha Hosack, Sarasota County Intergovernmental
Relations
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