Municipal Roundtable
The FUFC Municipal Roundtable is a peer network of local government staff and public-sector professionals across Florida. It creates space for staff, including parks and recreation staff, municipal arborists, and city and urban foresters, to connect, share ideas, discuss real-world challenges, and strengthen urban forestry programs in communities of all sizes.
What is the Municipal Roundtable?
The Municipal Roundtable is a Florida Urban Forestry Council initiative designed to support the people working every day to manage public trees and urban forests. It brings together municipal staff for practical conversations, shared learning, and regionally relevant collaboration. The goal is simple: help communities learn from one another and build stronger local urban forestry programs.
Why It Matters
Support for professionals doing the work
Many municipal tree and landscape programs are led by small teams — and sometimes by just one person. The Roundtable helps connect those professionals with peers who understand the same challenges.
Practical problem-solving
Discussions focus on real municipal topics such as ordinances, staffing, storm response, tree risk, planting, maintenance, budgeting, contracts, and working across departments.
Regional collaboration
Each region has its own needs, pressures, and opportunities. The Roundtable helps local governments learn from nearby communities while still being connected to a larger statewide network.
A stronger voice for municipal forestry
By bringing professionals together, the Roundtable helps elevate municipal urban forestry issues and encourages broader collaboration, education, and visibility within FUFC. This aligns with the original proposal goal of increasing engagement, supporting learning, and expanding FUFC’s impact among municipal professionals.
Who Should Participate?
The Roundtable is intended for municipal arborists, urban foresters, public works staff, parks staff, planners, sustainability staff, and other local government professionals involved in urban forest management, policy, planning, and implementation.
What participants can expect
- Regional meetings and peer discussion
- Hybrid opportunities when available
- Topic-based conversations on municipal issues
- Shared tools, templates, and lessons learned
- Connections to education and CEU opportunities
- A welcoming place to grow relationships with peers across Florida
Current Regional Groups
The Municipal Roundtable is growing through regional working groups that help local professionals connect more easily and discuss issues that are relevant to their area. Existing and emerging groups reflect FUFC’s commitment to expanding support for municipal forestry across the state.
- Tampa Bay
- Naples / Southwest Florida
- Jacksonville / Northeast Florida
Meeting Schedules
- BARF – Bay Area Regional Forestry that meets on the last Tuesday of the Month from 1:00 – 3:00 pm
- SWFL – Southwest FL Region meets on the last Thursday of the Month from 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Why Join Through FUFC?
The Roundtable is one more way FUFC supports members through education, connection, and leadership development. It gives municipal professionals a direct way to engage with peers, contribute ideas, and help shape the future of urban forestry in Florida.
That matches the proposal’s emphasis on education, membership growth, and meaningful engagement.
How to Get Involved
Interested in joining a regional group or helping start one in your area? We would love to hear from you. Whether your community has a well-established program or is just getting started, there is a place for you in the conversation.
Contact Shannon Brewer or fill out this form.
Municipal Roundtable Contact Form
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