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Friday, February 03, 2012
Alert! Amendment shifts county health departments to counties

This week a strike-all amendment for HB 1263 relating to the reorganization of the Department of Health was filed. Among many other provisions, the bill would require counties to take over their local county health departments with the state establishing block grants. Specifically, the provisions of the bill include: A requirement that the Department of Health contracts with each county to establish and maintain a county health department; Defines specific services to be provided by a county health department Read More
Friday, February 03, 2012
FAC says goodbye to John Ricco

This week FAC said goodbye to our longest serving employee John Ricco. John has been with FAC for eighteen years. And it goes without saying that his unwavering dedication and loyalty to our organization has made us what we are today. John started with FAC has an intern, served as a lobbyist and for the last 10 years built the FAC Enterprise Division from the ground up, and where Enterprise Programs account for more than 40 percent of our revenues. Read More
Friday, February 03, 2012
FAC Legislative Day a Success!

This week marked more than 200 commissioners and staff coming to Tallahassee to lobby in support of home rule and against unfunded mandates. The day started with a legislative briefing which included updates from Senate President Mike Haridopolos. The President spoke about frustrations of Washington passing down mandates to Florida and reaffirming his commitment to limit unfunded mandates to counties. The President was also on hand to answer questions from the crowd on a variety of legislation being debated this year. Read More