| About Frank Halas |
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Commissioner Halas was born in Michigan in 1941. He attended a one-room country school as a child. After graduating from high school, he attended the Detroit Institute of Electronics before enlisting in the US Army during the Vietnam era. His tour of duty ended with an assignment in Berlin where he served two years in the Signal Corps working with high security communications systems.
On return to civilian life, he married and began to raise a family in Michigan. He enjoyed a successful 31-year career with the Ford Motor Company. The majority of those years were devoted to the Advanced Engineering Center specializing in Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) testing. Through these years, he honed his skills for dealing with budgets, large projects and supervising diverse staffs. While at Ford his expertise was advanced through specialized studies at the Henry Ford College in Dearborn. Later his position as Operations Supervisor NVH Road Test and Florida Evaluation Center/AVT brought him from Dearborn to Naples during the winter months to utilize the Ford Test Track located in eastern Collier County. The 16 years he spent coming to that facility endeared the beauty and quiet sophistication of the area to him. Upon retiring in 1998, his love for the region turned toward more focused civic interests including protecting and enhancing his neighborhood - the Vanderbilt Beach area. His civic activities include membership in the VFW, Collier Audubon Society, Rookery Bay, the Conservancy of SW Florida, North Bay Civic Association, the Estuary Conservation Association. He also served on the Vanderbilt Beach MSTU and the Vanderbilt Beach Property Owners Association as President as recently as 2002, prior to being elected to serve as Commissioner for District 2. Frank and Diane Halas enjoy a large combined family of eight children and eight grandchildren. The Halas' married in 1997 and have called Collier County their full-time home since 1998. Commissioner Halas considers some of his highest priority items to be the preservation and protection of our natural resources, restoration of the Vanderbilt Lagoon, enhanced Land Development Codes, better access to the gulf for all citizens, a sound infrastructure of public services, and economic diversification.
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Frank Halas was elected to the Collier County Board of Commissioners in 2002. Reelected in 2006, he is serving his second term in office. Commissioner Halas serves as the Commission’s liaison to the Economic Development Council of Collier County. He is the Collier-Lee County representative on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Counties and is a member of their Impact Fee Task Force. He also sits on the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Previously he served as chair of the commission, chair of the Tourist Development Council, and liaison to the Productivity Committee and the Canvassing Board. A life-long Republican, he is a member of the Republican Executive Committee of Collier County and a Precinct Committeeman.