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Board proposes living‑shoreline discussion and a workshop on improving advisory impact
Summary
Members asked to schedule a November presentation on living shorelines and FGCU mangrove research and proposed a workshop to clarify how the Environmental Advisory Board can better influence planning and policy; the assistant city attorney said any change to the board’s duties would require an ordinance amendment or city‑manager action and offered to present the board’s founding ordinance.
Board members suggested topics for the November meeting that include a Living Shoreline project and a presentation by Florida Gulf Coast University researchers on mangrove research. The board discussed using the November meeting to showcase student research and to promote living shorelines as a resilience tool.
Board members also proposed a workshop to explore concrete ways the Environmental Advisory Board can influence planning and policy. Assistant City Attorney Travis Carey told the board that the panel is governed by the ordinance that created it and that broadening the board’s formal duties would require an ordinance amendment initiated by City Council or potentially a city‑manager directive; he offered to provide the ordinance text and to brief the board on its current legal duties.
The board asked staff to invite the council liaison, Councilman Baucher, to a potential workshop and to schedule a session where the city attorney’s office explains the board’s legal scope. The board agreed to pursue the Living Shoreline topic for November and to work with staff on a workshop date.
