Gainesville City Commissioner Bryan Eastman appointed to serve on Florida League of Cities legislative policy committee
Press release from City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gainesville City Commissioner Bryan Eastman has been appointed to the Florida League of Cities (FLC) 2023-2024 Municipal Administration committee. During his one-year term, Commissioner Eastman will help develop the League’s Legislative Platform, detailing priority issues that are most likely to affect daily municipal governance and local decision-making during the upcoming legislative session.
“I’ve been a longtime supporter of the work of the Florida League of Cities and their commitment to local communities and local control. I’m honored to be selected to serve on their Municipal Administration Committee,” said Commissioner Eastman.
The Municipal Administration committee focuses on code enforcement, elections, emergency management, gaming, homeland security, public meetings, public property management, public records, public safety, and procurement, as well as charter counties and special districts.
“Local government is the one closest to the people, and we need a state that respects home rule and local priorities. I look forward to working with local leaders across Florida to make that happen,” he said.
As a member of FLC’s Municipal Administration committee, Commissioner Eastman will join municipal officials from across the state to help FLC staff visualize the real-world implications of proposed legislation on the communities they serve. To get a broad spectrum of ideas — and better understand the impact of League policy proposals on rural, suburban, and urban cities of all sizes — the FLC works to have each of Florida’s cities represented on its legislative policy committees.
For a complete list of committee members, as well as more information on each committee and the FLC’s legislative policy development process, visit the FLC website.
“I’ve been a longtime supporter of the work of the Florida League of Cities and their commitment to local communities and local control…”
It’s apparent he’s not only out of touch with local communities but reality as well. Crime is increasing, taxes are increasing and utility rates are through the roof.
Hope you liberal lemmings are enjoying what you voted for. I say “what” because it’s difficult for many of you to determine “what” actually is.
Highly educated? Sure you are.
Just what we need- another pandering, libtard wokie in an important decision making role with local government. Unreal…
He already is in local government as a totally unqualified city commissioner. This is a quasi official position to bring intelligence and experience he doesn’t have to help other politicians who are qualified.
I gotcha; what I meant/should have said was “another” important decision-making role…
And yes you’re spot-on.
He hasn’t done sh!t to keep the panhandling bums out of the street medians…when the sun goes down, all vagrants and panhandlers should be at Grace Marketplace.
It’s wrong to select people who only represent 3% of the city’s population, to advise on policymaking for other cities.
The winner of a fair election represents all voters, no matter the turn out. Keep in mind that the country has had 2 presidents in the last 20 years who lost the popular vote and we had to live with that travesty because of stupid winner take all state allocation of EC votes. Nothing like that occurred in the last city election.
Are you new to America and freedom?
He’s not representing all voters. He’s representing specific political ideologies that haven’t done anything to better the community and those ill-conceived ideas have only increased the debt burden on residents.
He still thought, along with that nut job Saco, they were deserving of a raise.
The Florida League of Cities had 5 legislative policy committees. Having know people that served on them in the past, while the intent is good – to get a municipal input on a variety of statewide issues, they end up being a bit of a CF as you can have 50 people on each committee from all different types of communities with their own agendas. They meet three times a year, which entails travel expenses. Each committee comes up with two main legislative priorities that are pushed in the next legislative session, which, for the most part, isn’t always effective.