BY DAN HILDEBRAN
The Keystone Heights City Council appointed a Navy veteran to its Heritage Commission and a PhD to the city’s planning and zoning board during its August 4 meeting.
Navy veteran Ekaterina “Kat” Glenn has been a personal and mortgage banker with Regions Bank for the last seven years.
She told the council her family moved to Keystone Heights two years ago and “we love the small feel of this community.”
“I’m a big advocate for volunteers, and my company that I work for highly encourages us to give our time to either our church or to parts of the community,” she said.”
In her application, Glenn said, “I am interested in advocating for policies that encourage preservation, offer flexibility for restoration efforts, and educate the public on the long-term value of protecting our architectural heritage.”
Planning and Zoning Board applicant Geraldine Robbins is a Tallahassee native and has lived on Nelson’s Point for four-and-a-half years.
She holds a PhD in public policy evaluation and analytical methods from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
“My areas of expertise include strategic planning and defining actionable, impactful, measurable outcomes,” she wrote on her application. “My major contribution to the board will be guiding, focusing, and balancing the interests, goals and dreams of the residents and City of Keystone Heights – as they pertain to planning and zoning.”
Since 2015, Robbins has been a contracted program evaluator for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering & Technology Directorate, Technical Development Programs.
“Not an engineer, but I play one on TV,” she joked with council members. “Keystone Heights is, in my view, in a unique position, and the future is here, and I would really like to be a part of that.”
