Daily Outtakes: Johnson hand picks his new board (Updated)

Opening Doors Northwest Florida CEO John Johnson has hand-picked the Continuum of Care (CoC) governance board, whose first meeting will be at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, via Zoom.

• Only two of the people invited by Johnson are on the list of recommendations made by Mayor D.C. Reeves and Escambia County Administrator Wes Moreno – Rocky Harrison and Tracie Hodson.

Several Opening Doors staff are on the invite, but it’s unclear whether they are on the new board or simply invited to participate.

Johnson’s choices:

Rocky Harrison, 90 Works president
Elizabeth Kissel, Escambia County EMS program coordinator
Laura Gilliam, United Way of West Florida CEO
Meredith Reeves, City of Pensacola assistant housing director
Tracie Hodson, Favor House executive director
Doug Brown, Community Action Program CEO
Sherri Myers, former city council member
Joy Sharp, Baptist Hospital community health program director
Sally Bergosh, Health and Hope Clinic executive director
Ben Boutwell, Century mayor
*Dr. David Joseph, Lakeview Center clinical director
*Marcus McBride, CareerSource EscaRosa CEO
Robert Wingerter, Helping Hands for New Hope outreach director
Percy Goodman, Community Enterprise Investment executive director
Brad Baker, Santa Rosa County assistant county administrator
Mike Kimbrel, Alfred Washburn Center director
Tiffany Adams, FLorida Housing and
Mindy Von Ansbach Young, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office colonel

*Opening Doors board officers

Opening Doors Staff Invited

John Johnson, executive director
Joan Vincent, accounting director
Martika Baker, HMIS director, programj director
Serene Keiek, community director
Tracy Peters, compliance officer

MIA

Organizations missing from John Johnson’s CoC board are Ascension Sacred Heart, Community Health Northwest Florida, Children’s Home Society, Pensacola State College, and First Judicial Circuit Court Administration.

Also not included are individuals who might be more critical of Opening Doors: Councilwoman Allison Patton, County Emergency Manager Travis Tompkins, and Northwest Florida Homeless Reduction Task Force co-chair Connie Bookman.

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Idalia Claims Approach $100 Million

As claims continue to be filed, estimated insured losses from Hurricane Idalia reached $97.7 million on Tuesday, according to data posted on the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation website.

The data was based on 12,308 claims reported by insurers.

The largest number of claims, 8,533, involved residential property, while other types included such things as auto damage. The data said 531 claims had been closed with payments, while 632 had been closed without payments.

source: The News Service of Florida

Dig Deeper:

Hurricane Sally claims totaled nearly $577 million, and we didn’t get nearly as many visits and press conferences from Gov. Ron DeSantis.