Team Members
- Flo Entler, Chair (CCNA 2nd Vice President, Arlington Park)
- Barbara Powell Harris (Area A Director, Central Cocoanut)
- Sherman Baldwin (Park East)
- Ted Wilson (South Poinsettia)
Latest Committee News
- June – met with city staff and the Parks Committee.
- March 4 – met with Jerry Fogle, Parks and Recreation Director. Jerry will be meeting with Development Services Director Lucia Panica and Joe Polzak, City Attorney, and will get back to us.
- January 29 – met with City Directors Lucia Panica (Development Services) & Steve Cover (Planning) to introduce the team and discuss our objective.
- January 4 – committee established at member meeting
Background: The Board of Directors of the Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations voted unanimously to add a new Strategic Initiative to the list of initiatives generated by our 2023 Summit. This initiative is to prioritize efforts to rezone or otherwise protect spaces in the City of Sarasota that are neighborhood and/or community parks currently zoned G (Government Zone) to either POS (Parks and Open Space), MP (Marine Parks), or other appropriate designation. This decision was made in recognition of, and in furtherance of, the position paper unanimously adopted by our membership on the Commercialization and Privatization of City of Sarasota Parks dated 4/6/2024.
Goal: To provide broader protections applicable to all city parks. As the city grows, our parks are essential for quality of life, sustainability and environmental issues.