Guest i dont think it was a coincidence that during the Foreign Policy debate, mitt romney kept bringing it back to the economy. Most people turning in were not going to be paying that close attention to some of the Foreign Policy issues, and i dont think many \ voters go to the polls to vote based on what our decisions will be with china or cuba, for that matter. But they do vote with their pocketbooks. Statewide unemployment in florida is 8. 7 , but it is much higher in various pockets of florida. In some counties, as high as 12 unemployment. As we all know, that does not talk about the underemployed. The economy is still struggling in florida. We have signs of it getting better, but i heard a story that foreclosures in the state are the highest in the nation. Theres a lot of economic pressure in the state. People are feeling the pain, and whoever sells the economic message best is going to do well in this state. I should add that the Republican Party in the state is very strong. The
Agree that this is the right way, you know. And, so, what is it that didnt happen . Well, clearly in all of the reports that came back in terms of have you had a chance to read the acc jc report . There are clearly areas that have not been accomplished. And, so, specifically yes. There are i mean, a lot of that is the fit matt portion of it. So, what specifically, though . Having measures in place around payroll, around, around the Financial Stability pieces of it. This is so, this is, this is the interim counselor working with her board of trustees to implement policies that will address those pieces. Thats not the special at that time, the limited power that the special trustee had, that wasnt his responsibility to say, you need to go and get your staff to do this. The trustees were still our elected trustee were were very much in place to do those pieces. So its the mayors decision because of the trustees that we are where we are . No, were not were not interested at all in placing
I dont know not with the example that i gave. Okay. But we know that, we know that the structure of many of the departments at city college are not on solid ground. The thing that i dont understand is that the state chancellor had, you know, people from that department, that agency at city college for the last year. Supposedly working on these things, right . And now it turns out that city college supposedly didnt do enough, right . Even though it was following the guidance of these people who were advising them. And now the same people have been assigned to work with city college to address the deficiencies that city college could not address with these people advising them. applause so, ill tell you, in terms of common sense, having been a counselor on the School District, if the School District hired someone to help it comply with some of the deficiencies, an agency finds that the deficiencies are still there, i would question the School District rehiring that consultant to address
Lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to justify any fiscal financial mismanagement by anyone, but i do want to make sure that i know what it is but it is based on facts. [speaker not understood]. applause and thats why thats why the Mayors Office the matt report is important. If we can get reports from persons in various areas and thats exactly why we have bens office engaged and why we have kates office engaged. So, these are going to be ways in which, again, we look at it from a very different perspective, being mindful about the fiscal responsibility that is put forward. And then having said that, you know, the other area that the mayor just wants to really push around is enrollment. And i know, supervisor avalos, you asked what is it that we can all do that kind of brings us all together. We clearly have some differences of opinion in which each of our energies want to be focused. But i think the
~ havent we . I dont know not with the example that i gave. Okay. But we know that, we know that the structure of many of the departments at city college are not on solid ground. The thing that i dont understand is that the state chancellor had, you know, people from that department, that agency at city college for the last year. Supposedly working on these things, right . And now it turns out that city college supposedly didnt do enough, right . Even though it was following the guidance of these people who were advising them. And now the same people have been assigned to work with city college to address the deficiencies that city college could not address with these people advising them. applause so, ill tell you, in terms of common sense, having been a counselor on the School District, if the School District hired someone to help it comply with some of the deficiencies, an agency finds that the deficiencies are still there, i would question the School District rehiring that consulta