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Staff - Updated February 2011 1000 Friends of Florida maintains an experienced, professional staff to monitor ongoing local, regional and state growth management activities and recommend actions to 1000 Friends' Board of Directors. The staff also coordinates with other public and private organizations involved in growth management issues. Charles Pattison, FAICP, President - As president, Charles is responsible to the Board for the day-to-day administration of the 1000 Friends' office which includes working with Florida's citizens and communities. He also works with the state's executive and legislative branches on land use and long range planning issues. Prior to coming to 1000 Friends, he was the Director for the Division of Resource Planning and Management at the Department of Community Affairs from 1992 to 1998. From 1989 to 1992, he worked as a Field Representative for The Nature Conservancy’s Virginia Coast Reserve. Between 1983 and 1989, he opened the DCA Florida Keys Field Office in Key West, served as the Monroe County Planning, Building and Zoning Director, and was the first executive director of the Monroe County Land Authority. Charles also has also served as a planning director in coastal North Carolina and spent five years with the North Carolina Office of Coastal Management in beach access and coastal permitting work. A North Carolina native and an Eagle Scout, he received an undergraduate degree from N.C. State in Raleigh and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina. He spent six years working on coastal development issues in North Carolina before moving back to Florida. A Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (April 2008), he serves on the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium Advisory Council, Betton Hills Neighborhood Association, External Advisory Council to the University of Florida’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and Apalachee Land Conservancy. He is a graduate of Leadership Florida, Class 18. In 2005, Charles was appointed by Senate President Tom Lee to a four year term on the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida. He was also appointed (2007) to the Florida Energy Commission’s Climate Change Subcommittee and the Governor’s Climate Action Team which developed a state climate action plan. Joanne
Davis, Community Planner - As community planner for Palm Beach County's
Green Initiative, Joanne works with policymakers, agencies, community groups,
other nonprofit organizations and citizens to provide assistance and information
regarding projects occurring with the region. Issues such as land acquisition
and preservation, smart growth, government relations, and transportation
are addressed as part of the overall comprehensive plan strategy. Davis
was instrumental in securing public funding for the purchase of environmentally
sensitive and agricultural lands and chaired the advisory committee responsible
for the implementation of the Palm Beach County program. Before coming to 1000 Friends, Joanne was an environmental consultant to
a large land planning and landscape architecture firm. She continues to
design and install native Florida landscapes for her own firm. Her education
background is in botanical science, field studies and evaluation, and
communication. Jaimie
Ross, Affordable Housing Director - Jaimie is responsible for working with local governments and with the nonprofit and for-profit development communities in the provision of affordable housing through the state's growth management laws. She promotes affordable housing through policy and administrative advocacy with state, regional and local agencies and by developing other organizations involved in low-income housing issues; providing technical assistance and legal expertise. The affordable housing program receives its primary funding from the Florida Bar Foundation.
Before joining 1000 Friends of Florida in 1991, Jaimie practiced with an Orlando law firm; the emphasis of her practice was real estate and land use law. Ross is the director of the Florida Community Land Trust Institute, a collaboration between 1000 Friends of Florida and the Florida Housing Coalition. She is the President of the Florida Housing Coalition and heads up the Florida Nonprofit Housing Advocates Network. Nationally, she serves on the Board of the Innovative Housing Institute and served on the Board of the National Low Income Housing Coalition from 1997- 2003. In 2004, Jaimie was named a James A. Johnson Community Fellow by the Fannie Mae Foundation for her accomplishments in affordable housing including spearheading the Sadowski Coalition, which successfully advocated passage of Florida’s dedicated revenue source for affordable housing. She continues to facilitate that alliance of 24 statewide organizations in support of the Sadowski state and local housing trust funds. |