COUNTY COMMISSIONER LINCOLN REPRESENTS FLORIDA KEYS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

​MONROE COUNTY – Monroe County Commissioner Michelle Lincoln represented the Florida Keys this past week in Washington, D.C., including in a valuable panel focusing on the challenges to intergovernmental collaboration in disaster resilience. The panel discussed access to federal funds, mitigating risk, and other issues.
 
The National Association of Counties (NACo) facilitated an intergovernmental roundtable on disaster mitigation in conjunction with the annual legislative conference. About 50 federal, state, and county leaders for a day-long roundtable discussed building capacity for resilience and disaster mitigation. Lincoln is slated to be the next Florida Association of Counties President and was invited to speak about Monroe County’s experience in successfully accessing federal support during an emergency.
 
“Lincoln represented Monroe County’s experience in our successful post-disaster recovery and securing grant funding for our efforts to build future resilience,” said Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi.
 
Lincoln also met with the offices of Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Congressman Gimenez to discuss new earmark requests and the progress made on prior year’s earmarks, like for the Twin Lakes Key Largo project that is out to bid. They also discussed other federal issues and priorities, like National Flood Insurance Program protections, Risk Rating 2.0, resilience funding, Everglades restoration, and Veterans issues.