The Santa Rosa-Escambia County Continuum of Care (CoC) is accepting applications from those interested in serving on the nominating committee member, which will help select the CoC Leadership Council.
Applications can be found here and must be submitted by Aug. 30. The AD-HOC Governance Committee will review the submittals and propose five to eight people to be approved as the Nominating Committee at the CoC membership meeting on Sept. 24.
Membership/Nominating Committee members must also be an organization or individual member of the Continuum of Care (CoC). Members must fully participate and engage in all aspects of the committee, and complete external committee work as required. In addition, it is important that committee members are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive CoC membership.
If you are not currently a member, there is a link to join inside the Nominating Committee Member Application.
Pensacola City Councilwoman Allison Patton serves on the AD-HOC Governance Committee and helped draft the new CoC charter, which was approved last month.
“This charter establishes the COC membership and authorizes the election by the membership of a leadership council,” Patton said. “That leadership council will be the board that oversees the COC. Prior to that, it was the lead agency board (Opening Doors Northwest Florida) that was functioning in that role.”
She continued, “And what we have now is consistent with best practices as far as HUD and others are concerned. So I think having that leadership council to really step into that role of helping our community move forward to really put that system in place that we need of response is going to be extremely important and will help us make the progress that I think we are all hoping for.”
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