Dear Friends,

The day of my swearing is fast approaching.  Many of you have asked for me to let you know when and where so that you may attend.  I would be honored if you attended.  The Citrus County School Board Organizational meeting and swearing-in takes place on Tuesday, November 16^th at 4:00pm in the Board Chambers at the Citrus County School District Offices located at 1007 W. Main Street, Inverness, Florida 34450.  If you’d like to, you can also put this on your Facebook calendar by CLICKING HERE.

Hope you can make it and if you can’t, please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.  Don’t forget you can follow all my School Board happenings at my blog site at www.OurCitrusCountySchools.com. Please share the web site with others ,  too!

Thank you for all of your encouragement and support!

Thomas

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I ask that if you have not already voted, that you please get out and vote today!

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Tuesday October 26th, 2010 was a Special Meeting and Workshop for Citrus County School Board.  Clancy J. Mullen of Duncan Associates (DA) presented and the Board voted to accept the education impact fee study submitted by DA and hired by the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC).  The Study will be presented to the BOCC at a later date.  The report generally showed a reduction in local building costs which would result in a slightly lower proposed School Impact Fee schedule then the previous 2007 fee schedule.   At the last school impact fee adoption the BOCC adopted the school impact fees at 50% of the proposed amount.

The Board also heard a proposal by a Principals Committee made up of elementary, middle and high school principals about using funding from the federal jobs bill to hire three aides for all traditional schools. The school district has $3.2 million available through the jobs bill with hopes of receiving the funds again next year but there is no guarantee that the bill will be available after that.

Citrus County Schools Assistant Superintendent Mary Curry presided over the State of the District, Part II report which covered Gifted (a.k.a. Reached), Horizon, Plato, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) and Penn Foster.  In addition, Ms. Curry updated the Board with feedback comments she just received from the Department of Education on Florida’s Race to the Top.

Next Regular Board Meeting is November 9^th, 2010 at 3:00pm.

Related Links

• Duncan Associates
• impact fee
• Citrus County Board of County Commissioners
• Citrus County Schools
• Gifted (a.k.a. Reached)
• Plato
• Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
• Penn Foster
• Florida’s Race to the Top

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