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Charter Review Board asks staff for citywide orientation, agrees to prioritize public-lands and election items

2066490 · January 4, 2025
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Summary

Fort Lauderdale’s Charter Review Board voted to ask staff to produce a citywide orientation and to focus early work on public lands and elections after months of internal education and public-access concerns.

Fort Lauderdale’s Charter Review Board voted to ask city staff to develop a citywide orientation and communications plan and agreed to prioritize a short list of items the City Commission identified, including public-lands rules and election-related charter language.

Board members said the move is intended to improve public outreach after two years of education-focused meetings and concerns that the board’s prior work had not reached neighborhood groups. The board’s motion asked Anthony, the board liaison, to draft an outreach/education program and report back by the next meeting.

Why it matters: Board members repeatedly said that poor public awareness hampered the board’s previous recommendations…

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