Chairman Jared Grifoni

Term: 2016 - 2020 and 2020 - 2024

Jared Grifoni

SERVICE TO OUR CITY

Jared was elected to the City Council in November 2016 was re-elected in November of 2020 for his second term. During his service, he has been selected three times as Chairman and four times as Vice-Chairman by his peers on City Council. Jared has also been appointed as the Marco Island representative on the Collier County Tourist Development Council and he has served in that role since the end of 2020.

PERSONAL AND FAMILY

Jared moved to Marco Island in 2007 and is a full-time resident and homeowner. He lives with his wife, Elsa, and their four children, Calvin, Tosca, Lorenzo, and Matteo. They love living in Marco Island and enjoy soccer, gardening, boating, going to the beach, attending art and music shows and other community events on the island.

Jared has served on the Greater Marco Family YMCA Community Relations Committee and he and Elsa are members of the Marco Island Center for the Arts, the Marco Island Fire Foundation and the Italian American Society of Marco Island and other island community organizations. Jared is also a youth soccer coach and has coached in the Optimist Club of Marco Island, Mexi League and with club Azzurri Storm. The Grifoni family is very active in the community and regularly supports and attends events hosted by local civic associations, schools, and groups in Marco Island and Collier County, including Meals of Hope, Salvation Army, Marco Patriots and Kiwanis.

Jared and his family are very passionate about the environment. They frequently work on local beach clean-ups and are long time volunteers for the Audubon of the Western Everglades, specifically with the “Owl Watch” program helping to collect data and track the burrowing owl population to ensure they are thriving and protected in Marco Island.

LOCAL BUSINESSMAN & ATTORNEY

In September 2015, Jared was recognized as one of Southwest Florida’s rising business leaders in Gulfshore Business Magazine’s annual 40 Under 40 rising stars feature. Jared was recognized in part for his work as an integral and leading part of the operation of SWFL Dunkin’ Donuts franchise consisting of 20 thriving locations and over 400 employees in Collier, Lee, Hendry, Hardee, and Glades and DeSoto Counties before most of the business was sold in 2016.

Jared is a licensed attorney and leader in multiple small businesses based in Marco Island and Collier County.

EDUCATION

Jared is a graduate of Merrimack College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a double major in Philosophy. Jared received his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School, where he received an honorable mention award for outstanding performance in oral advocacy and became licensed by the Florida Bar in 2008.

Jared has continued pursuing his passion for education and self-improvement in 2019 by completing a course of study in Stoic Theory & Practice through the School of Essential Studies of the College of Stoic Philosophers, and in 2023 by receiving both his coaching National D license and National C license through US Soccer and the Florida Youth Soccer Association. 

EDUCATIONAL SPEAKER & GRASSROOTS LEADER

Prior to his election to the Marco Island City Council in 2016, Jared was a sought-after speaker and grassroots leader on issues pertaining to fiscal conservatism and constitutional rights in Collier and Lee Counties for events, meetings, political forums, schools, and civic associations.

Jared has spoken at colleges and high schools throughout the community including Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida SouthWestern State College and Golden Gate High School.

Jared led local efforts to protect the 2nd Amendment, to restore local control/home rule in education, to protect taxpayers from millions of dollars of hidden debt increases, and championing a repeal outdated, job-killing regulations in Collier County.

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