Broward County Named an Official Six Pillars Community on October 17, 2012! To read story from the Sun-Sentinel, please click here.
| Pictured left to right as Broward County is named a Six Pillars Community are: Ron Drew, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance; Bob Swindell, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance; J. David Armstrong, Jr., Broward College; H. Wayne Huizenga; James Murley, South Florida Regional Planning Council; Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca; and Dale Brill, Florida Chamber Foundation. |
To see other photos from the Celebration Launch event, please click here.
Over 300 Broward County business, civic, government leaders and residents are leading the Six Pillars strategic planning process for Broward County.
At the state level, the Six Pillars process is being led by The Florida Chamber Foundation, and is meant to help communities throughout the state of Florida prosper and create high paying jobs by creating a visioning process through 2030. Six Pillars will be addressing these topics which have been deemed critical to economic success in the future. To learn more about these topics and the teams working on Broward's Six Pillars plan, please click on the Pillar links below:
(1) Talent Supply & Education (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
(2) Innovation & Economic Development (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
(3) Infrastructure & Growth Leadership (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
(4) Business Climate & Competitiveness (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
(5) Civic & Governance Systems (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
(6) Quality of Life & Quality Places (To view the plan for this Pillar, please click here)
To provide feedback on any of the plans, please send your comments to Ron Drew at rdrew@gflalliance.org.
To view the complete plan for all Broward County pillars in one document, please click here.
To provide online feedback regarding the Broward County plan, please click here.
To register to participate as a volunteer on one or more of the Broward Six Pillars teams, or to receive information about the process via email, please click here.
2013 Implementation Meetings Now Being Scheduled!
For information and to register for 2013 Broward Six Pillars team meetings please see below:
Quality of Life & Quality Places
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Abdo New River Room, 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
Talent Supply & Education
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Florida Atlantic University, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., 11th Floor Higher Education Building - Room HE 1110AB, Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
Business Climate & Competitiveness
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Florida Atlantic University, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., 11th Floor Higher Education Building - Room HE 1110AB, Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
Innovation & Economic Development
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Florida Atlantic University, 111 East Las Olas Blvd., 11th Floor Higher Education Building - Room HE 1110AB, Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Bank of America Community Room, 401 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
Infrastructure & Growth Leadership
8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Location: Broward MPO, 100 West Cypress Creek Road, 8th Floor, Suite 850, Fort Lauderdale
To register, please click here.
““Our goal is to bring as many stakeholders as possible into Broward’s Six Pillars planning process,” said David Armstrong, one of the Six Pillars co-chairs and president of Broward College. “Members of our community will have an opportunity to jointly agree on priorities for our County, make decisions that prompt action, measure progress, and make periodic adjustments to the Plan when appropriate.”
“Each of the Six Pillars topics is important in its own right," said Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca and a Six Pillars co-chair. “When we bring them all together to develop a strategic vision, we will most assuredly impact our future success by creating high wage jobs, a vibrant community prepared for the future and the tools we need in Broward County to compete in an increasing global competitive environment.”
Steering Committee:
Co-Chairs
J. David Armstrong, Jr.
President of Broward College and
Immediate Past Chairman of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance
Charles Caulkins
Managing Partner
Fort Lauderdale office of Fisher and Phillips LLP
Vice Chair of The Broward Workshop
Lori Chevy
Broward Market President
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Commissioner Chip LaMarca
Broward County Board of County Commissioners
James Murley
Executive Director
South Florida Regional Planning Council
Steering Committee Members
Anthony Abbate, Associate Provost for the Broward Campuses, Florida Atlantic University (Co-Chair - Talent Supply & Education)
Chief Nichole Anderson, Broward County Sheriff's Department (Co-Chair – Quality of Life & Quality Places)
Commissioner Patricia Asseff, City of Hollywood (Co-Chair - Civic and Governance Systems)
Josie Bacallao, President/CEO, Hispanic Unity of Florida
Howard Bakalar, Senior Vice President, United Way of Broward County
Earl Bosworth, Director, Broward County Cultural Division
Kevin Boyd, Chairman, Broward Days, Boyd Public Relations
Sidney Calloway, Partner, Shutts & Bowen LLP
Isabel Cosio Carballo, Director of Public Affairs, South Florida Regional Planning Council
Linda Carter, President/CEO, Community Foundation of Broward
Steven Cernak, Port Director, Broward County Port Everglades
Carla Coleman, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute SE Florida/Caribbean
Michael De Lucca, President/CEO, Broward Regional Health Planning Council, Inc.
Danielle DeVito-Hurley, Attorney, GUNSTER
Commissioner Bobby DuBose, City of Fort Lauderdale (Co-Chair – Civic & Governance Systems)
Jon Ferrando, Executive Vice President, AutoNation (Co-Chair – Business Climate & Competitiveness)
Joe Giulietti, Executive Director, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
Kim Gorsuch, Circuit 17 , Community Development Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Families
Ric Green, President/CEO, Greater Pompano Beach Chamber of Commerce
Nicki Grossman, President, Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau
George Hanbury II, Ph.D., President/CEO, Nova Southeastern University
Gretchen Harkins, Assistant to the County Administrator, Broward County
Dennis Holste, Assistant CRA Director, City of Margate CRA
Mason Jackson, President/CEO, WorkForce One Employment Solutions (Co-Chair – Talent Supply & Education)
Jorene Jameson, President/CEO, Broward Education Foundation (Co-Chair – Talent Supply & Education)
Gloria Katz, Executive Director, Smart Growth Partnership
Kathy Koch, President/CEO, Ambit Advertising and Public Relations (Co-Chair – Business Climate & Competitiveness)
Roy Krause, Retired President/CEO, SFN Group (Co-Chair – Talent Supply & Education)
Dan Lindblade, CAE, President/CEO, Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
Jerry Majzlin, Executive Director, Broward Days
Pamela Madison, Deputy County Administrator, Broward County Administration
Albert Massey III, Esquire, Massey, Coican, Schuster & King, L.L.C. (Co-Chair – Civic & Governance Systems)
Dev Motwani, President and CFO, Merrimac Ventures (Co-Chair – Innovation & Economic Development)
Ramola Motwani, Chairwoman, Merrimac Ventures (Co-Chair – Talent Supply & Education)
Peggy Nordeen, CEO, Starmark International (Co-Chair – Innovation & Economic Development)
Jennifer O’Flannery Anderson, Ph.D., Vice President for Community Engagement, Executive Director of the
FAU Foundation, Inc., Florida Atlantic University (Co-Chair – Quality of Life & Quality Places)
Linda Quick, President, South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association
Cathy Randazzo, Director, Broward County Planning and Redevelopment Division
Robert Runcie, Superintendent, Broward County Public Schools
Norm Seavers, Associate Vice President - Institute for Economic Development, Broward College
Kelley Shanley, President/CEO, Broward Center for the Performing Arts (Co-Chair – Quality of Life & Quality Places)
Russ Sheppard, Sr., Vice President, Skanska USA Building Inc. (Co-Chair – Infrastructure & Growth Leadership)
Henry Sniezek, Director - Planning and Environmental Regulation Division, Broward County
Gregory Stuart, Executive Director, Broward MPO (Co-Chair – Infrastructure & Growth Leadership)
Bob Swindell, President/CEO, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance
Stella Tokar, IOM, PCC, CDP, President/CEO, Bold Consulting
Susanne Torriente, Assistant City Manager, City of Fort Lauderdale (Co-Chair – Infrastructure & Growth Leadership)
Scott Verner, President/CEO, Nipro Diagnostics (Co-Chair – Business Climate & Competitiveness)
Ben Wesley, Area Manager, Florida Power & Light (Co-Chair – Innovation & Economic Development)
A special thank you to the following Six Pillars volunteer facilitators:
Jose Batalla, Baxter Martin Advertising
Mary Becht
Kareen Boutros, The Broward Workshop
Ron Drew, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance
Anne Hotte, Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
Jody Leshinsky, Broward Cultural Division
Shawn Oden, JP Morgan Chase
Shawn Sackman, SunTrust Bank
Norm Seavers, Broward College
Ana Zeinieh, City of Tamarac