Keith Schnars - Civil Environmental

Home Browse Search

II ''" ''�''.l• DEBBIE LOVEAICP , t • n ` ;, 1 Ms. Love has over 20 years experience in urban, comprehensive and land planning, including ;: t the preparation of neighborhood and redevelopment plans; land development regulations 0 I and comprehensive plans and amendments; community visioning and workshop facilitation; y '• • capital improvement programming; affordable housing; environmental impacts; floodplain • if �c s`: ; management and mitigation; and grant writing. ® I RELEVANT EXPERIENCE • wwersergonseene ACADEMIC GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR. VARIOUS CLIENTS: In the City of Indian Rocks Beach, • BACKGROUND Ms. Love successfully submitted a $500,000 Cooperative Funding Initiative grant application • BA Business to the Southwest Florida Water Management District; the application proposed to complete Administration, Daytona stormwater improvements including the use of special filtering devices to better mitigate • Beach University pollutant loading in near shore waters. In the City of Marathon, Ms. Love administered 0 a CDBG Small Cities Grant for sewer connections for low CO moderate income families; Business Administration, prepared an application and administered an EDC grant for a stormwater pilot program in O Applied Management a low income neighborhood; and prepared an application for an FMA grant for the new fire Specialty, Kaplan School of ® Business station which received $1.2 million in funding. Additionally, she prepared an FRDAP grant application for land/improvements for a community park that received $3 million in funding. 0 PROFESSIONAL In the City of Lakeland, she prepared and administered of 4 HMGP applications to fund • CERTIFICATIONS stormwater improvements that received $1.8 million in funding. In the Village of Islamorada, • Certified Member of the Ms. Love prepared a DEP planning grant application that received $45,000 in funding, while American Institute of on behalf of the Middle Keys Community Land Trust she prepared and administered a $1.2 0 Certified Planners, million FHA grant; prepared and administered an Enterprise Foundation grant application AICP#022684 that received $300,000 in funding;and prepared and administered a $1.2 million grant award 0 from the Monroe County Land Authority. • National Charrette Institute CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, KEY BISCAYNE, FL.: Keith and Schnars O was contracted to develop a Capital Improvements Program (CIP), including establishing Certified Watershed a process the Village could utilize each year to manage their capital improvement projects. ® Manager, 2003 The Keith and Schnars Team guided establishment of the administrative structure to assist 0 Florida Green Home in the development of the program, and undertook the following tasks: set the mechanism • Standard Certifying Agent, for public input; developed the policy framework for the CIP to address the issues of the • Florida Green Building community's financial viability, community development, levels of service standards, and Coalition, Inc, 2006 other strategic goals; formulated evaluation criteria to determine capital spending levels and • to guide capital project selection; prepared a public facilities capacity analysis to identify the PROFESSIONAL capital improvements that should be constructed to meet current and future needs through • AFFILIATIONS the long-range planning timeframe; analyzed the status of previously approved projects • American Planning to evaluate whether or not the projects were on schedule and on budget; assessed the Association financial capacity of the Village of Key Biscayne to undertake new capital projects; evaluated 0 funding options; compiled, evaluated and ranked project requests; and undertook financial • Treasure Coast Chapter programming over a five year and ten year timeframe. Ms. Love served as Project Manager of APA and Primary Author. (5/08 to 4/09) 0 FEMA Task Force, • 2000 - Current • State of Florida Hazard • Mitigation Advisory Team • 2003 - Current • Florida Floodplain Managers Association, • Founding Member and • Region IV Director, 2000- 2006 • . a T,rm KEITH and SCHNARS,RA. ®, _ RFQi 2-04-02 PAGE 31 :- v FLo un SS/g LOCAL FIRM