Position Statement of

Professional: (Click here for Tim’s full resume)
Planner III, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Principal Planner, St. Johns County, Florida; Senior Planner, City of Port Orange, Florida; Planner, City of Largo, Florida; Planner I, City of Tarpon Springs, Florida.

APA: Florida Chapter APA: Executive Committee, 2000+; First Coast Section, Chairman, 2000 +; Legislative Policy Committee, 1998+; Awards Committee, 2001; Suncoast Section Treasurer, Secretary. Masters in Public Administration, University of Central Florida, 1990; B.S., Aviation Administration, Indiana State University, 1981.

Position Statement: Let’s build an APA focused on improving the quality of planning practice nationwide, an APA that works to create an atmosphere in which we can practice the ethical, inclusionary, smart-growth type of planning APA has advocated for so long.

Instead, the APA Board raises dues year after year so it can squander hundreds of thousands of our dues dollars to study APA governance and "branding." Wouldn’t planning be better served if our dues were spent on building political and public support for sound planning practices?

As APA charts its course in a new century with a struggling the national economy and war, it is more important than ever that APA:

	More effectively market ethical, smart growth, inclusionary planning practices to elected and appointed officials in local and regional governments, where most planning takes place, not just to the federal government.
	Learn how to convey these planning concepts to the public and elected officials in language they can understand. Stop pretending there is no bad planning going on. Let’s explain why it’s bad and how to turn it around.
	Make it safer to practice top-quality ethical planning by fully funding and staffing the Planners Support Committee so it can help courageous planners address underlying causes of our nation’s domestic problems without risking their jobs. APA should not be afraid to publicly challenge a community that threatens a planner’s job security because she performed ethical, sound planning.
	Furnish sufficient staff and financial support to chapters to develop effective lobbying and public relations efforts at the state and local levels where the laws that govern most planning are adopted.

If APA doesn’t start applying sound planning and fiscal practices to its own governance, it won’t have the financial resources to implement any of this. APA barely escaped a deficit in 2000. The Board should quickly rebuff the counter-productive efforts to enlarge the size of the Board and exclude independent people from APA leadership.