Applications are being accepted for two Pinellas organizations. Both the Suncoast Health Council and the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative have vacancies they are looking to fill. The organizations are looking for residents who care about their community and want to better it. Let’s learn more about the two organizations and what they require.
Suncoast Health Council
The Suncoast Health Council’s purpose is to plan and advise for the health needs in Paso and Pinellas counties. It is an independent, private non-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors to represent the concerns of health care consumers, providers and purchasers in Pinellas and Pasco counties. The Health Council collects and analyzes health care data; describes community health status; identifies health care needs and resources; and works with community partners to design programs and services to respond to current and emerging health care needs.
Consumers, providers, and purchasers of health care make up the board. Members are appointed to specific member categories:
- Health Care Provider: Someone who provides health care services, such as a doctor.
- Health Care Consumer: An individual who is neither a purchaser nor provider, who receives medical care from licensed practitioners and who may or may not access public and/or private health insurance coverage.
- Health Care Purchaser: An individual licensed to provide or who provides health care services to individuals and/or groups, such as insurance executives.
Applications are currently being accepted for Health Care Provider (two appointments), and Health Care Consumer (one appointment).The two-year term will expire on Sept. 30, 2024. Applications are still being accepted for one vacancy as a Health Care Purchaser. This vacancy represents a current 2-year term set to expire March 31, 2023.
The Suncoast Health Council holds meetings on the third Wednesday of alternating months, from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., in the Madison Building located at 9600 Koger Blvd., St. Petersburg.
Pinellas Public Library Cooperative
The purpose of the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative (PPLC) is to extend library services to unincorporated areas of the county and participating municipalities that do not have such services. It also improves library services to citizens of municipalities and of library tax districts that have library services.
Applications are being accepted for two appointments to the (PPLC). The criteria required for these appointments include:
- Previous experience serving on a board or similar body, and the capacity to evaluate a full range of perspectives from library service providers to library users.
- Represents the interests of all parties, including the county, the PPLC, members with or without libraries, and patrons.
- Have a vision for the future of countywide library services.
- May not be an employee or member of the governing body of a library.
This is a volunteer position with no compensation. Appointees will serve for a term of 3 years beginning Oct. 1, 2022. The PPLC generally has meetings on the last Wednesday of the month at the PPLC office in Clearwater. However, they sometimes they hold meetings at other member libraries or alternate locations.
Applications must be received by 3 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2022.