Meet and Greet with Chauncey Goss

Chauncey Goss

Board Member of the South Florida Water Management District

Biography: 

Chauncey Goss grew up on Sanibel in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. He received a BA from Rollins College

and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He is married to Allison and they have

three grown sons. He began his professional career as the Executive Director of the nonprofit

Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association in Boca Grande and then moved to

Washington, DC and became an expert in the federal budget process working at both the White

House’s Office of Management and Budget and as Deputy Staff Director for the House Budget

Committee. He is currently managing partner of a firm he founded that provides budget forecasting

and federal fiscal policy analysis.

He has served on the City of Sanibel’s Council and was appointed by the Governor to the Governing

Board of the South Florida Water Management District in 2019 and was reappointed in 2023. He has

been Chair of the Governing Board since his appointment.

Goss is involved in his community and is a member of the Sanibel Captiva Kiwanis as well as the

Sanibel Community Church. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Canterbury School

where he has served as Board Chair as well as the Board of Directors of Captains for Clean Water

(where he is Treasurer), the United Way, and the Community Foundation of Southwest Florida

(Collaboratory). He is a trustee of the Lee County Electric Cooperative. He has been a board

member of the Sanibel Community Association, the Ding Darling Wildlife Society, the Sanibel

Captiva Conservation Foundation, and the Lee Coast MOAA Foundation.