SunSentinel Mention

November 1, 2019

Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP

President, Chen Moore and Associates

Last week: With the 2020 Census on the horizon, Broward’s Complete Count Committee has been hard at work identifying trusted community members to motivate their neighbors to participate. To ensure a complete and accurate count of all Broward residents, the County has partnered with a local marketing firm to plan and implement a robust marketing campaign for reaching historically hard-to-enumerate communities. Last week, The Village Square, in partnership with Broward College and Florida Tax Watch, hosted a forum on the critical role cities, counties, and communities will play in achieving a complete count. There’s just too much at stake for anything less. #BrowardCounts

Looking ahead: With the 2020 Census just around the corner, localities across the U.S. are investing in the necessary infrastructure to ensure a complete count in their communities. Nowhere are the stakes higher than in Florida, the third largest and fourth fastest growing state in the country. Undercounts result in losses of millions, even billions, of dollars which Floridians are entitled to for schools, roads and highways, education, safety, and more. I applaud the League of Women Voters of Florida for recently encouraging Governor DeSantis to form a statewide complete census count effort, and I echo their sentiments. Make every Floridian count!

SunSentinel Mention

October 25, 2019

Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP

President, Chen Moore and Associates

Last week: It's unfortunate such discord has been sown in our community surrounding Bonnet House. There is a reason why the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation is reorganizing the current management of Bonnet House, Inc. which by the way the Florida Trust created in 1990. The Florida Trust's sole purpose is to preserve and protect Historic Properties in Florida, and they are good at. We all need to let the reorganization run its course. I’m confident that Florida’s preeminent organization of preservationists and historians teamed with local Broward leaders will reorganize leadership at Bonnet House to bring back a fiscally successful grounds, our last UNDEVELOPED Gem on Fort Lauderdale Beach.

Looking ahead: Census 2020 is just around the corner. Everyone in Broward needs to be counted. Federal dollars related to population fund programs for children, the elderly, and lower-income households alleviating the need to supplement programs with local taxpayer revenue, not to mention our representation in Congress. As a father of a young child under five, I too need to make sure my child gets counted. It is vitally important that influential leaders and residents of our community participate to ensure a complete count in Broward. The county will be rolling out a robust marketing plan in the coming months. For more informations visit www.browardcensus.org. Lets #GoBroward #BrowardCounts

SunSentinel Mention

October 4, 2019

Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP

President, Chen Moore and Associates

Last week: This past week I attended a project review meeting with a municipal client for the projects they submitted for funding under the one cent sales surtax monies. I am appreciative of the MPO staff and consultants who are wading through 506 projects from 28 municipalities. While the final process is still being worked out, I do want to be sure that all the cities (and Broward County) recognize that these monies are intended to be additive to existing budgets and not a replacement for funds that should have already been dedicated to our vast infrastructure needs.

Looking ahead: Next week, the 2019 Annual Convention for the American Society of Civil Engineers comes into Miami. While this is normally a meeting for a very specific technical audience, this convention is special. There will be an unveiling of the Proof of Concept for the Future World Vision. Future World Vision uses data-driven, in-depth, scenario-planning analysis to reimagine infrastructure through five potential future worlds. The first “world”, called the Floating City, will be featured in a booth where participants can “tour” a floating city of the future through a virtual 4D experience. Come experience the future.