City, County and Local Government Law.

• Author: Lieberman, Michele
• Position: Annual Reports of Sections and Divisions of the Florida Bar: 2018-2019

The City, County and Local Government Law Section has completed another successful year. This year the section continued our commitment to provide quality continuing legal education, resources to local government practitioners, and encouragement to students interested in the field of local government law.

This year, the section presented several outstanding educational programs including Sunshine Law, public records and ethics for public officers and employees, and the annual daylong board certification review course. In addition, the section's biennial public finance seminar was held in conjunction with the section's 42nd Annual Conference, which included our annual business meeting and a two-day seminar on a broad array of pertinent subjects.

Annually, the section provides grants to local government attorney's offices of counties, cities, school boards, and special taxing districts in the state of Florida to fund paid college student or law student internships during the summer. This year the section awarded $25,000 in internship grant funds.

This year, we continued our longstanding program of awarding $500 to one student from each of the state's 12 law schools. Nominated by their school, these students have excelled in a law school course focused on local government law issues or have exhibited an interest in local government law during their final law school year. In addition to a cash award, these students were invited to join the section at our annual meeting luncheon where they had an opportunity to network with section members.

The section published two editions of The Agenda, a publication provided to our members containing...