Seminole County, FL, Council Meeting
14 January 2025
Gordon Brown (187 words)

Chairman Zembower, commissioners, and staff, thank you for this moment of participation in your meeting. 

 As constituents, we share the responsibility, along with you, to preserve and nurture our communities.

 We recognize that our communities become more diverse every day.

 We also know that we live in an environment that is both wondrous and fragile.

 As decisions are made, now and in the future, we ask that every stakeholder is given a voice in shaping our community, and that the voiceless will be remembered in our discussions.

 May every position, assertion, motion, or debate be based upon sufficient research and reliable evidence.

 And ultimately, we look to all of our elected and appointed public servants to provide informed leadership, peaceful resolution, and fair directives.

 May I leave you today with these thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt: "There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."