This Months Speaker:

Chauncey Goss is our September speaker! He is the chairman of the South Florida Water Management District.

Chauncey Goss is the founder and managing partner of Goss Practical Solutions – a firm that provides federal fiscal policy analysis and budget forecasting. Prior to starting the firm, Goss served as Deputy Staff Director and Director of Budget Review for the House Budget Committee under Paul Ryan.

Before working on Capitol Hill, Goss worked for the Executive Office of the President in the Office of Management and Budget’s National Security Division where he was instrumental in ensuring the Department of Defense and intelligence community were properly resourced. Prior to that, he worked as a strategic planner under contract to the Air Force, Navy and intelligence community.

As a long-time resident of Southwest Florida, Goss first became involved with water quality issues when he worked as the Executive Director of the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association on Boca Grande in the early 1990s.

Goss grew up on Sanibel Island and currently lives there with his wife and three sons. He is active in his community and serves as an elected member of the Sanibel City Council. He is past Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Canterbury School in Fort Myers. He serves on the boards of Captains for Clean Water (Treasurer); the Southwest Florida Community Foundation (Executive Committee); the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation; and the United Way of Lee, Hendry, Glades and Okeechobee counties. He has served as an appointed member of the Lee County Coastal Advisory Council and as an appointed member to the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program’s Management Committee.

He received a B.A. (Area Studies – Political Science, Environmental Studies, English) from Rollins College and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

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We are a group of politically aware women sponsoring candidate forums and high profile speakers. We are active in our community supporting local students, local animal shelters, local women’s health related organizations and so much more. We are your neighbor, your sister, your friend. We are YOU! And we’d like to invite you to join us for lunch on the third Tuesday of each month at The Helm Club in The Landings on McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers.

Come solo or bring a friend! Sign-in with social time at 11:30 AM. Lunch at 12 PM noon; program to follow– $20 all inclusive. Please call Tina Laurie the week before at (239) 489-4701 for reservations.