I will continue to stay engaged wherever I am needed

FOR THOSE WHO READ HEADLINES ONLY

  • I am Terry McGinn and and activist for good governance and the environment
  • I am an 18 year Sebastian resident. I have been deeply involved as a (homestead) resident  for 7 years.
  • I am an advocate for IRC Mosquito Control.
  • I am a cheerleader for Sebastian.

 

 

WHY I POST WHAT’S IMPORTANT
  • In 2010, I retired from industry after 46 years in the corporate & technical world.
  •  For 10 more years I consulted in industry and mentored some very bright persons.
  • Over those years I contributed to many sciences and technologies, leadership, finance and organizational planning and development.
  • I was told by experts that my  main skills were problem identification and solutions but more importantly, I could see problems derived from the initial solution and subsequent solutions for those newly created problems. 
  • That skill made me an effective creative manager of problems and solutions. This skill still burns brightly in my mind. If you ask all my colleagues they will confirm this skill of mine.
  • For 30 years, my wife and I taught our children life skills. My family was fortunate enough to sail the ocean, and we embedded ourselves for 17 years in the island life of the Bahamas, both sailing and living in Eleuthera. 
  • Island life and sailing throughout the Bahamas exposed me to the environment and as a resident and ex patriot I was deeply immersed in environmental issues in a 3rd world country, as well as the bureaucracy that made their “world go round”.
  • I slowly became an activist for those persons I came to love and the environment I lived in. (That included personally recovering from Hurricane Andrew (direct hit) in 1992, 4 subsequent smaller hurricanes, storms at sea and pollution affecting both the island land and the ocean).
  • After 20 years of living (part time) and cruising offshore from Nantucket to the Florida Keys and Bahamas, we sold our homes and moved to the City of Sebastian in 2007.
  • While also in Bucks County, PA.,  I continued to  have my hands full as the founding president of a community organization of 165 home planned development including all infrastructure.
  • By 2018 we sold that home and I was done with all that and focused on my life and homestead in Sebastian.
  • The next 8 years saw me involved in the Indian River Lagoon, the Mosquito Control District, and the City of Sebastian, a wonderful, well run community.
  • I have served on the Sebastian Budget Review Board (4 years)
  • I have had 90% attendance at both Sebastian City Council meetings and IRCMCD meetings since 2019 (sometimes on zoom or you tube).
  • I was active in both a city wide recall of much importance and led an opposition to a huge hotel threatening to pollute the Indian River Lagoon (the hotel was not built)