Pinellas County, FL -- April 15, the deadline for filing income taxes, will be here before you know it. Do you know if you are entitled to the Earned Income Tax Credit?

Learn more about the Earned Income Tax Credit and the possibility of free tax preparation help during a conversation with Eddie Burch. The communications specialist with the Juvenile Welfare Board will be the guest on There’s No Place Like Home, the radio show sponsored by the Housing Finance Authority of Pinellas County.

At the Dec. 6 Board of County Commissioners meeting, board members named Pinellas County Commissioner John Morroni chairman for 2012. He replaces outgoing chair Susan Latvala.

Commissioner Ken Welch was selected as vice chair.

Morroni has represented single-member District 6 on the commission since 2000, previously holding office in the Florida House of Representatives (1992-2000). He served as commission chairman in 2005. He and his family live in Feather Sound.

Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch will host Community Office Hours on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the West St. Petersburg Community Library at St. Petersburg College, first-floor, Room LI142, 6700 Eighth Ave. N., St. Petersburg.

The Community Office Hours program allows Pinellas residents to voice their opinions, ideas and concerns relating to county issues, without having to travel to the County Courthouse in downtown Clearwater.

No appointment is necessary; the commissioner will meet with constituents on a first-come, first-served basis.