Melody Shacter
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  • M4 5/12/2014
  • M5 6/10/2014
  • M5 6/10/2014
  • M6 7/10/2014
  • M7 8/11/2014
  • M8 9/10/2014
  • M8 9/10/2014
  • M9 10/10/2014
  • M10 11/10/2014
  • M11 12/10/2014
  • M11 12/10/2014
  • M12 1/12/2015
  • F1 1/23/2015
  • F1 1/23/2015
  • F2 2/6/2015
  • F2 2/6/2015
  • F3 2/20/2015
  • F4 2/27/2015
  • F5 3/6/2015
  • F6 3/13/2015
  • F7 3/20/2015
  • F7 3/20/2015
  • TRF 6/22/2015

Contact Information

Address
426 Orange Bluff Avenue
Jacksonville, FL - 32211
Phone
904-465-2104
Candidate's Statement

Melody Shacter is a longtime Arlington resident with extensive, successful business and community service experience. Having owned and led businesses in the medical and homebuilding industries, Melody is ready to bring her strong leadership style to Jacksonville’s City Council. As an entrepreneur, Melody founded Home Companion, Inc. in 1988, a company providing in-home nursing, homemaker and childcare services. She sold the company to Mayo Clinic in 1998 and remained as its director until 2002. She then joined her husband David at the company he founded in 1993, Harmony Homes of North Florida. While Melody served as chief operating officer Harmony Homes built more than 1,200 homes in Jacksonville. The company was eventually sold to Drees Homes in 2005. Melody was then named president of Drees Homes. When the need to homeschool her youngest son arose, she left the business world to devote eight years to home and community involvement. In 2013, Melody and her husband David founded a new homebuilding company called TerraWise Homes, Inc. Melody is now vice president of TerraWise Homes. Melody has served tirelessly in our community volunteering as a support member, chair and board member for many nonprofit organizations including: - Served as host mother to seven International Rotary students - Past board member, membership chair, treasurer, and president of the foundation of her church - Learn-to-Read mentor and teacher - Civitan Club member - Past Chair of Elder Care Task Force - Past board member, Arlington Community Garden She currently serves as: - Jacksonville Arboretum and Gardens Development Committee member - North Florida Builders Association member - Steering Committee of the Woman’s Giving Alliance, co-chair of both the Education Committee and Diversity Task Force - Board of Trustees, Finance Committee member, Treasurer and Foundation board member of WJCT - Board Member of Beautiful Jacksonville - Arlington Newcomers Club member - Clifton Civic Association Representative for the Greater Arlington/Beaches Citizens Planning and Advisory Council - Founding member of The Shacter Family Foundation -Recipient of Rotary International\'s Paul Harris Award Education: Bachelors Degree (Business, Sociology and History) Masters Degree (MBA) Read more about Melody at VoteShacter.com
Note: The candidate's photograph and statement are supplied by the candidate and are not endorsed by the County Supervisor of Elections or checked for accuracy.
The following financial reports are available:
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Candidate qualifying forms and miscellaneous documents