Plugging Away in the ROSSAC Humbug Environs

Mr. Valdez's Cat, Ms. Mendacity Pussywillow

In response to the first reader below, I have learned to be suspicious of the data I get from the school board and from ROSSAC minions. Often what they tell you is at complete variance with what is going on and what they have done. Then it's time to get your your Ouija Board and contact the genies of doubt to suggest what is really happening behind the scenes.

I asked Ms. Cobbe maybe two weeks ago for the job description of the Ms. Smith principal person whom the parents refused to tolerate any more. It Smith had been a teacher, Ms. Elia and the ROSSAC thugs would have kicked her clear to the Alaskan tundra while the board ninnies cheered.

But she's an administrator. So Ms. Elia created her another job out of thin air. I quickly got the salary from Ms. Cobbe: $60,000, same as she made as principal of Alafia. But I still await the job description.

Here's what I think happened. The superintendent has been accustomed to creating and handing out such jobs to free-floating administrators who landed in a pickle with no other formalities: just put Administrative Culprit on the payroll and let those fools the taxpayers subsidize this rape of tax money.

Nobody ever asked for a job description until the kid here came along and started doing so. Now the long wait for the job description of Smith's new paper-shuffling at $60,000 per annum tucked away in some cozy administrative office somewhere is due to Mr. Valdez's not having the time or the inclination to manufacture one. The old rascal will eventually get around to it, and Linda Cobbe will dutifully forward it.

That's the kind of razzmatazz this administration of lies, fun, and videotapes that the administration conducts.

Notice that Mr. Solis's-- from the university's legal gaggle-- diction. He doesn't employ the one-syllable word "use"; he shovels up the four-syllable "utilizes."

That feint is a dead giveaway that you are dealing with an attorney who probably had to take the bar exam twice--three times in the ethics section.

A parent told me that the pschology exam of the toe cracker revealed no pathology. That means he or the adminstration slipped the examining psychologist with a degree from Saskatchawan Psychological Department of Fun and Games money under the table.

lee
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Lee,

If they do give you the Toe-Cracker phych report, my guess is they will doctor-it-up to protect him like they did before.

If I recall correctly, Kipley & Co. somehow ammended what the DCF investigator said. Isn't that grand! They get to interpret what the investigator reported for their benefit (that was after the SDHC attorney made some incorrect statements).

Is there any way of knowing whether or not the document you get is legitimate and original?

Keep up the great work.

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From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:40 AM
To: 'gsolis@admin.usf.edu'
Subject: FW: public information

Mr. Solis: The Attorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for a public-information request. Mine has languished longer than that by far. I ask again to know how much money the university paid the Gonzalez firm last year for its services.

Lee Drury De Cesare

From: Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:35 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: FW: public information

Dear Lee Drury de Cesare:

The University utilizes the law firm of Thompson, Sizemore & Hearing, P.A. on various legal issues. In response to your request, attached please find a copy the agreement between Mr. Gonzalez’s law firm and the University of South Florida. Mr. Gonzalez is not employed by the University of South Florida.

Sincerely,

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu


From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:13 PM
To: Visot, Cynthia
Subject: public information

Dr. Visot:

I cannot find where to send a request for public information. Therefore, pray send this to the right person for a response to my request:

I would like to know if Tom Gonzalez is the attorney the university uses in its legal business with the workers and faculty, and if those are not areas of his employment at USF, is he at all employed by the university at all, in what area, and what was his salary last year?

Thank you.

lee drury de cesare
15316 Gulf Blvd. 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33709
tdecesar@Tampabay.rr.com
From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:40 AM
To: 'gsolis@admin.usf.edu'
Subject: FW: public information

Mr. Solis: The A ttorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for a public-information request. Mine has languished longer than that by far. I ask again to know how much money the university paid the Gonzalez firm last year for its servcices.

Lee Drury De Cesare

From: Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:35 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: FW: public information

Dear Lee Drury de Cesare:

The University utilizes the law firm of Thompson, Sizemore & Hearing, P.A. on various legal issues. In response to your request, attached please find a copy the agreement between Mr. Gonzalez’s law firm and the University of South Florida. Mr. Gonzalez is not employed by the University of South Florida.

Sincerely,

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu

Under-the-radar Toecracker Psychological Evaluation

Ms Elia's Dog, Tiny

Linda, I learned that the administration had the toe-cracker guy see a psychologist for evaluation after a parent complained. I would like to see a copy of that evaluation. It should be part of his employment file and thus part of the public record. ldd

Show No Mercy in the Political Ring

Outside Florence on the way to visit David

Advice to District 4 Board Member Pole Girl's Opponent.

One seldom gets the chance to use vivid adjectives that describe District 4's board member.

Referring to Jennifer Falliero's conduct, we have the choice of "immoral";" sleazy"; "deceitful"; "corrupt"; "debased"; or "debauched." I like also the old-fashioned adjectives "indecorous" and "unbecoming" to portray Ms. Faliero's conduct as a board member. Those fit too. They are the adjectives my women relatives would use at the family reunion church dinner on the grounds that I attend once a year in White Oak, Georgia.

Ms. Falliero's sordid conduct on school grounds and about town the board and whole school system knew about from the teachers' lounges to the janitors' mop closets.

Her debauched conduct has made me label incumbent Falliero "Pole Girl."


As far back as Dr. Lennard's regime, La Falliero haunted head-of-Community-Relations Marc Hart's office. She became almost a part of the furniture. She claimed she needed Hart's "mentoring." Her behavior was so flagrant that Dr. Lennard told her to stop it. She ignored him.

Dr.Lennard was a case of the pot calling the kettle black I suspect.

I asked Dr. Lennard one time when he was toying with running for the state House if the rumor were true that he and Dr. James Hamilton had left their wives and set up a bachelor pad at one time. He said no. I don't believe him.

Adultery ensued in the Jennifer campaign to seduce Hart. It succeeded, alas. This selfish behavior meant pain for two sets of children. Falliero contributed to Hart's divorce. His young son's grades fell; his daughter's chronic disease exacerbated. The adultery caused Falliero's own divorce from, I believe, a county football coach.

Falliero and her coach spouse have two daughters, who got scant consideration from either parent. To safeguard her board seat, Mama Falliero bargained away child support for her husband's promise not to reveal the adultery that led to their divorce. She was a fool to think that the news would not get out; it already had. This dumb move by La Falliero deprived her children of the financial support they needed. She subsequently spoke up on the board podium to urge the need for a raise in board salaries because she couldn't make ends meet.

The board already exceeded beginning teachers' salaries by $9,000. Board parasites do nothing to earn a $40,000-plus tax take. Those board members not engaged in known adultery do nothing but pose languidly on the board dais, preening their imagined importance. They scamper around to community political powwows with tax-paid- food orgies and get fatter by the day.


Board members don't earn the salaries that exceed those of teachers. They do not do due diligence such as reading background materials and questioning school- administration documentation. They merely push the green button for whatever Ms. Elia tells them to do. They are not interested in the schools. They are interested in the social life the board position affords them.

They are also interested in abusing travel funds. In addition to their bloated, unearned salaries, they spend thousands of dollars of tax money on joy trips. Present board chair Susan Valdes pissed away $50,000 in one year for R&R rides around the country while poor county children couldn't participate in class projects because their parents couldn't afford the supplies they needed. Ms. Valdes's favorite podium quote is that she is going to "save every penny of taxpayers' money." You betcha.

Board members write no summary of their tax-paid larks around the country or reveal what they learned that benefits the schools when they return from these travel sprees. I bet the content of any essays they eked out filled with grammar and punctuation errors passim would be how to order from room service ad lib and charge it to Florida working people's taxes.

On top of Falliero's adulterous behavior, this insidious specimen of corrupt public servant moved secretly and illegally from Brandon, her official Number 4 district, to South Tampa's Number 2 district. This is Candy Olson's bailiwick. She is the board member with an exotic marital history: her lawyer spouse divorced her after discovering he was gay and then sent out the message that he had "never been happier."

Like so many social naifs, Falliero suffered from the myth that South Tampa is the Hillsborough County Riviera. She is convinced that South Tampa is the place where all the swells luxuriate and conduct literary receptions at which they discuss Thucydides' comments on the Peloponnesian War, Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, and the less well known poetry of Virgil whilst they waltz around wearing designer duds.

That's malarkey. My family lived in the South Tampa arrondissment twenty years while our children went to Grady, Coleman, and then graduated from Plant. I can say with certainty that South Tampa erudition stops at the National Inquirer and bodice-ripper epics and that the concept of elegance consists of plastic flowers in the foyers of lot-line to lot-line hulking, behemoth houses. These bloated productions are what incoming parvenus throw up after buying and knocking down some little postal worker's cottage built before the South Tampa real-estate gold rush. The women all roll bandages at the Junior League and wear Dillard's off-the-rack couture. Chanel doesn't sell in Dillard's.

Falliero's board decorum coincides with her whacky ideas of posh neighborhoods.

This feckless mother and board member jerked her two poor daughters out of Brandon schools and signed them up at Plant. Anybody who has tried to move a child from one school to another knows how hard that is to do. My read is that Ms. Elia picked up the phone and ordered the Plant principal to expedite the move. He ran, not walked, to the counselors to order them to sign up the Falliero daughters. Poor girls: hostages to their mother's randy endocrine system and false ideas of posh.

The reason I can say for a certainty that Falliero committed adultery is that Marc Hart called me to come over to the beach and show me the part of his divorce deposition that confirms the fact. The administration and board finally fired the poor guy on a manufactured charge to save Falliero's "reputation." Then he couldn't get a local job to earn money to help his former wife support his children because the parochial government employment underground had blackballed him.

Just when you think the press has gone to sleep permanently, some one of the tribe wakes up and prints that a school board member has snuck out of her district illegally and set up housekeeping in Golden South Tampa. That's what Lois-Lane Ms. Stein of the SPTimes did. In addition, Stein afterwards tracked down Falliero and made her admit that she had lied about the moving caper.

Exposed, the ethically mobile Falliero tucked her tail between her legs, snatched her poor daughters from Plant, and scurried back to Brandon. That's where she now hunkers like a civic vulture waiting to run again for Board Seat 4 and settle in for four more years to pursue her dicey conduct as a member of the outfit that leads the schools for our children's and grandchildren's (I still have one grandchild going to Plant in the fall) wellbeing.

I forgot to mention that at the end of Falliero's adultery saga, the board--all of them--voted her in as chair. They saw nothing wrong with adultery on school grounds by one of their number although they would do a quick turnaround if their constituent parents found out about the adulteress chair and raised a squawk. That information's getting out would cause an uproar from the parents and public; then the rest of the board would discover a reason to do a quick kickout of Falliero as chair. But until the public finds out and raises Cain, an adulteress and her supporters run the schools.


So far Ms. Falliero has one opponent. He is a pharmacist. Woe betide the voters of Hillsborough County if this guy suffers from the chivalric code and won't bellow loud and clear about his opponent's moral disabilities and other flaws to the voters. If he does not have the courage to do so, he might as well resign himself to counting pills and not bother running for the board. He must also realize that unless voters get hit over the head with a news two-by- four, they vote incumbent because that is the only name they know.

The voters need acquaintance with Ms. Falliero's disabilities for sitting on a school board, and the opponent in the election is the only person who will brief them.

Many naive political candidates foster the belief that the newspapers will rescue them by printing the skullduggeries of their opponents.

Wrong. Newspapers suffer galloping timidity and don't want to make the power people mad by printing the truth about them. Newspapers are especially timid today since more and more are going under as victims of the blogs and online mega-papers. I can't imagine how the legend of the Crusading Press emerged. It's just a big fib.

I myself have abandoned the print press. I pull up the HuffingtonReport first and then the NYTimes. Only my computer averse husband of 53 years reads the SPTimes. He cuts me recipes out of it.


I think the current print press thinks it can run on automatic and last a few more years by not offending anybody with printing unsavory truths. My belief is that if its minions had the moxie to slap out the news of the community's power base's mess-ups such as the Falliero adultery story that took place on school grounds, newspapers would keep readers longer. But I doubt they can bring themselves to that level of go-to-hell courage. Timid people fill press ranks--especially management that muffles young reporters when the latter want to do a juicy story.


First campaign shot across the bow: To get the message out on Falliero's moral morbidity, the pharmacist guy must attend a meeting of the board before which he will have sent out a press release to both print press and TV. Heck, he should throw in the radio stations too. It should say something to the effect that the school board incumbent has a sexual history that must come out for the voters' review before election. He should say that he will answer questions in the ROSSAC lobby after the meeting on whatever date it is.

The word "sex" must be in the press release. Twice if the pharmacist can swing it. That word draws the press when nothing else does. If the board has the guard kick our pharmacist candidate out of the lobby, he must invite the press to follow him to the sidewalk, which is good old American public free-speech space. I, by the way, have been kicked out of the school board lobby. I lived to tell the tale.

I am sorry to report that Falliero is pretty. She's getting a little long in the tooth, but she is the best-looking board member, not a notable encomium when you see the pusses on the rest of the board.

The pharmacist candidate should scrub up and look as pretty as he can, and he must not use any of the adjectives suggested in the top paragraph of this message. He must not say that Ms. Falliero's behavior is slutty; he must say her conduct is "untoward," "shocking," or "unfortunate." Think Victorian adjectives for the press conference.

Once Mr. Pharmacist has the press's attention because of invoking sex, he must mention two other areas that concern him about Falliero's candidacy.

The challenger must point out that Falliero has joined the rest of the board in defying the law by refusing to make the administration carry out the bullying law as lawmakers wrote it. The law includes both students and staff. The language of the bill repeatedly cites adults employed by the schools.

Explain that the board and administration don't want the bullying law implemented as written because then teachers would have a resource to file bullying charges against the board and administration when both cook up false Professional Standards complaints against teachers to make them scared to critique the board's and administration's mis-running of the schools for fear that the critical teachers' will lose their jobs in retaliation.

Say that neither Falliero of the unfortunate moral status nor any of the board that supports her fall from grace will ask the Attorney General for an opinion on whether HB 669, the bullying law, applies to staff as well as children. Say this flouting of the law comes from the board and administrations' wanting to shut up teachers' criticism. Say that you, Falliero's opponent, will ask for the Attorney General to render that opinion the minute the voters elect you.

A third issue on which to attack Pole Girl is Ms. Falliero's hostility to the First Amendment, discussed in Ms. April's commentary that I ran last week for La Griffin's two opponents. Ms. Falliero had no better sense than to write with editing help from the Community Relations office since she is not a whiz in the literacy department a letter to the SP Times demanding its management to put a person on duty to review letters to the editor that criticized board members and zap the critical letters. Ms. Falliero is whacko and ineducable on the right of citizens to free speech, including freely criticizing the school board and rehearsing her adultery history when the spirit moves them to do so.

I am good willed to write to Dr.Genshaft and ask her if USF routinely grants degrees to people so illiterate that they have to get writing help. I think people like Falliero, who got a degree from USF, as far-fetched as that fact seems to be, should sue the university for its letting her loose not able to write without a coach.

I would also recommend that our challenger leaflet born-again churches after Sunday services with information about Ms. Falliero's honky-tonk ethics; born-agains don't like school-board Jezebels and harlots. They won't vote for them. The Bible says born-agains shouldn't. Check out Leviticus.

I would also find out how far you have to stand from a school to leaflet and then leaflet the teachers with campaign literature when they leave school every day.

I'll help; I'll take a number of schools if the challenger pharmacist will provide me the leaflets. There is nothing I like better than to leaflet. Some of the happiest times of my life have been spent on the picket line.

Keep in mind that there are a whole lot more teachers than board members and administrators. To get teachers' vote, remind them how the board and administration routinely file cooked-up Professional Standards charges against teachers to frame them soas to scare them about losing their job.

Don't bewilder voters with too much information. Pick three things against Falliero and hammer them. That's the way I taught students that the possessive precedes a gerund.

On a slow day I hope our pharmacist challenger of the Pole Girl will say that he plans to lower board salaries to that of the lowest-paid teachers in the system. That will knock about $9,000 from the loot of these parasites and will panic the public-money blood suckers who presently occupy the board. In addition to being lazy, they are greedy and feed obscenely from the public trough while doing nothing to improve the schools.

More advice will come to the candidates from time to time from this blog. But I have provided a start for our noble druggist candidate. Go, Mr. Pharmacy guy, go! lee

On another matter: You may recall that Gonzales was part of the Al-Arian farce at USF. You can read more about it at http://w3.usf.edu/~uff/AlArian/Aftermath.html#RecommendationDismiss. or google Arian Gonzalez usf -ariane and find other hits. Gonzalez must be very busy at SDHC and USF and etc, etc. I think his firm has a hammerlock on school jobs. I have a request in for public information about how much the Gonzalez team got paid last year for their legal services by USF. I have also learned that the trial Gonzalez lost six years ago in the Erwin whistle-blower case cost $34,000 billed to the taxpayers along with Mr. Erwin's $165,000 settlement. When Gonzalez and his co-counsel complained to the judge about the amount of the award, the judge is supposed to have said that it would have been more if Mr. Erwin had had a better lawyer. So taxpayers footed the legal bill for the criminal behavior of Dr. Lennard, ROSSAC minions, and the board for punishing Mr. Erwin when he reported criminality in the schools. Tom Gonzalez played his usual part in providing legal cover in this obscene case. He hired an investigative firm that he dismissed when it discovered only that the administration and board were trying to frame Mr. Erwin, make people think he was crazy, and fire him without his pension lee

From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:58 PM
To: 'linda.cobbe@sdhc.k12.fl.us'
Subject:

Linda, how are you doing getting me the cost of the Whistleblower trial? I want a separate figure for the Gonzalez firm's payout along with the total cost of the trial. I have decided I can make do without the Gonzalez salary for the seven years on the board job. I will use the $175,000 base for one year that you sent me. ldd

I have an offer that I will accept from a reader to translate my pdf files into Word. I have a Pdf program but am still trying to figure it out. My code is the English language; there I am master of the game and can't be trapped. But the computer lore sometimes befuddles me. For instance, I am now struggling to install a new printer. Also if I could prevent these pests from sending me erectile-dysfunction ads to post on my blog, I would be in hog's heaven. lee

When at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try, Double-try Again

Secretary Smith:

This is another reminder that the Hillsborough County schools have failed to implement the bullying law by leaving out the staff and teachers that the law cites repeatedly as protected by the legislation as well as the students.

Board Attorney Tom Gonzalez announced in a public meeting at the behest of Board Member Candy Olson that the bill did not apply to staff and teachers, only students.

I filed an ethics charge against him with the Florida Bar for this distortion of legislation to fit the administrative goal of the board and administration to deny teachers and staff the protection of the bullying law so that the board and administration could continue to terrorize teachers with the threat of job loss if they made any suggestions or criticized the administration's and board's running of the schools.

You had the schools submit a plan to implement this law. As pubic information, I would like a copy of this submission from the School Board of the Hillsborough County schools so that I can post it on my Web site.

I would also like to know what you will do to see that the Hillsborough County board and administration carry out the bullying law as the House wrote it.

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

From: MacMenomay, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.MacMenomay@myfloridahouse.gov]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:15 AM
To: tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com
Subject: RE: information

Dear Ms. De Cesare:

Representative Frishe received your email and asked me to look into this for you. HB 669 was passed during the 2008 legislative session and was signed into law by the Governor on June 10, 2008. The bill “Creates ‘Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act’; prohibits bullying & harassment of any student or employee of public K-12 educational institution; requires school district to adopt policy prohibiting bullying & harassment; provides immunity; provides restrictions with respect to defense of action & application of provisions; requires DOE approval of school district policy & school district compliance with reporting procedures as prerequisites to receipt of safe schools funds.”

You can view full text of this bill at the link listed below:

http://www.myfloridahouse.com/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=38076&SessionIndex=-1&SessionId=57&BillText=&BillNumber=669&BillSponsorIndex=0&BillListIndex=0&BillStatuteText=&BillTypeIndex=0&BillReferredIndex=0&HouseChamber=B&BillSearchIndex=0

Please do not hesitate to contact our office should you need any additional assistance in the future.

Kind Regards,

Jennifer MacMenomay

District Aide

State Representative Jim Frishe

125 Indian Rocks Road North, Suite A

Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770-1727

(727) 518-3902 Phone

(727) 518-3904 Fax

From: Jim Frishe [mailto:jim@jimfrishe.com]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 10:44 AM
To: Frishe, Jim
Subject: FW: information

From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:34 PM
To: jim@jimfrishe.com
Subject: information

Will you tell me if the bullying bill (HB 669) covers students as well as staff and teachers in the schools? If you are no sure, could you get an Attorney General opinion on this issue?

Thank you.

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Just Picking Away at the Rock of Resistance

Secretary George Sheldon
Department of Children and Families
1317 Wineward Boulevard
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, FL 32300-0700
1/10/2010

Dear George:

I have received a copy of Senator Storms's letter regarding my complaint about the abusive conditions that the profoundly retarded children endure in the Hillsborough county schools.

Your local bureau chief declined since he said your agency didn't have authority to intervene in abuse by Hillsborough County schools' personnel. That leaves a whole lot of county children uncovered by your agency's protection.

I have asked you for public information that I have not received yet. The Attorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for public information.

You have far exceeded that time frame in my public-information request. I ask for it again and add this: Give me a copy of the information in your agency manual that confirms that you don't have any control over abuse of children by school personnel; in fact, give me any exceptions to protection that this manual lists.

That this in an unexplored issue that your agency has not thought of or avoided is in question. It seems a giant oversight to me and needs attention. This meeting with the Hillsborough County superintendent and board could be a start.

Senator Storms has asked you to get back to her on what you do about this problem.

I request that you come to Tampa for a meeting with Ms. Elia, me, and others. Your station chief seems a tentative person to me, and we need a firm voice in this situation. I hope that you can provide it.

Also, this meeting should not be shut up. The school board and administration have a policy of giving out manipulated information only through the Public Affairs Laundromat so that the public is kept ignorant of how the schools are really run. So I ask that you not bar any press that wants to attend. Your boss Mr. Crist believes in government in the sunshine, and this allowing of press people in would enhance that goal.

I think the board should be at the meeting. This is something its members are responsible for monitoring but have not. Their presence would mean that they can no longer say that the problem of the abusive practices in the severely retarded area is something they don't know about. Claiming ignorance of problems in the schools that people elected them to monitor is their standard defense about doing anything.

I also have a couple of teachers who want to come, and they don't get out of school until five. So the meeting should be a few minutes after five.

The school board must have a conference room. I suggest that the meeting be there.
I appreciate your help in this matter.

Respectfully,

c:Governor Crist
Marc Rubio
Sheryl S. Steckler