After a year of planning, 120 members of the business, education, medical and law enforcement fields, along with people from nonprofit and faith-based organizations, took part in the inaugural Community Alliance of Sarasota County Legislative Summit on Tuesday in an effort to hammer out issues the Alliance would like to present to the state Legislature.

“Our purpose is really to bring the entire community together to talk about key issues around health and human services and education, so that we can develop our legislative agenda and our legislative priorities to present to our delegation for the issues that we think are most important around the community,” said Community Alliance Legislative Advocacy Committee Chair Kathryn Shea.