The FES Broward Chapter Legislative Breakfast was held on December 15 at the Tower Club in Fort Lauderdale. CMA Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE served as the emcee, CMA Project Engineers Teresa Lewis, P.E. spoke as chapter President and Vince Locigno, P.E. led the event and served as moderator as the chapter Vice President. The legislative forum is an opportunity to discuss important issues for the FES / ACEC-FL 2022 legislative agenda with some local representatives from Broward County and the engineering community. The representatives who attended were Chip LaMarca, Christine Hunschofsky and Dan Daley. Other CMA staff in attendance were Charmaine Emanuels, P.E., Shahin Hekmat, P.E. and Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, FACEC.  Sixty people attended the event. https://www.fleng.org/general/custom.asp?page=Broward

CMA sponsored a young family of four living in Palm Beach County, as part of the Adopt-A-Family program. Adopt-A-Family’s mission is to strengthen families with children in their efforts to achieve stability and self-sufficiency by providing access to all-encompassing services. Since 1983, Adopt-A-Family has grown into the largest service provider for homeless families in Palm Beach County – providing access to services for more than 2,000 families with children per year. Thank you to the Community Service committee for coordinating the drive.  For more information, please visit https://adoptafamilypbc.org/

CMA staff members Jose L. Acosta, David Cowan, Suzanne Dombrowski, Shahin Hekmat, Diego Jara Li, Tanya McCormick, Nick Musick, Justin Tagle and Brent Whitfield attended the 2021 Joint Professional Societies Legislative Breakfast at the Doubletree by Hilton in Palm Beach Gardens on December 14. CMA served as a table sponsor and Brent lead the event organizing committee and moderated the panelists who presented on planning for a resilient Florida.

We are proud to announce that the following CMAers Nicholas Karpathy, Sathvika Ramaji and Justin Tagle recently passed the PE exam. Congratulations!

The CMA Community Service Committee in the Orlando Office participated in the ASCE Younger Member Forum Food Drive in Winter Park on November 17. A total of 563 pounds of canned goods were donated to Second Harvest food bank!  CMA Associate Engineer Madeline Batey coordinated the collection and delivery of the canned goods. Thank you to everyone who helped make this food drive a success! https://www.eastcentralasce.org/

CMA’s Community Service Committee held our annual food drive this month to benefit Feeding South Florida (FSF) and raised $440 dollars in addition to collecting six boxes of donations. CMA donated 185 pounds of food which is the equivalent of 154 meals! CMA Senior Engineer Jennifer Smith, P.E. delivered the donations to the FSF warehouse on November 12. FSF partners with over 400 nonprofit agencies and distributes 44 million pounds of food annually throughout Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. Thank you to our entire team for your generosity and support! https://feedingsouthflorida.org/

CMA Director of Water Resources Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP, Principal Engineer Safiya Brea, P.E., LEED AP and Executive Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E. F.ASCE, attended the Leadership Florida Annual Meeting at the Diplomat Beach Resort November 12-14. https://www.leadershipflorida.org/

The FES Broward Branch Induction was held virtually on November 10^th. The President of FES, Carlos Penin, P.E. inducted CMA Project Engineer Teresa Lewis, P.E. as President, CMA Project Engineer Vince Locigno, P.E. as Vice President, and CMA Engineer Charmaine Emanuels, E.I as the Scholarship and Student Liaison Chair. Other CMA staff members Safiya Brea, P.E., Shahin Hekmat, P.E., and Daniel Davila, P.E. attended to support the branch and newly inducted members. https://www.fleng.org/general/custom.asp?page=Broward