Financial experts warned how board members words can influence financial markets that hold the district’s debt. Author: Eric Glasser Updated: 5:12 PM EDT May 18, 2021
TAMPA, Fla. As the Hillsborough School District grapples with its future financial challenges, board members got a strongly worded bit of advice Tuesday.
Experts essentially urged board members to watch what they say when they talk about district finances – not just as a matter of money but of federal law.
As the Hillsborough school district worked to avoid a state financial takeover, there was no shortage of blaming and badmouthing. Now, school board members are being advised to turn down the rhetoric.
The show will go on at New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Hillsborough Commission approves $7.3 million construction on a long-planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmaGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. Wednesday, Hillsborough commissioners voted 5-2, for a $7.3 million construction contract to build the center. [ Hillsborough County ]
TAMPA â The show must go on, a Hillsborough Commission majority decided Wednesday.
In a 5-2 vote, the commission awarded a $7.3 million construction contract for a 20,000-square-foot performing arts center in New Tampa, a project first proposed in 2004.
By Gordon Byrd
Apr 23, 2021
TAMPA Hillsborough School Superintendent Addison Davis acknowledged that the way hundreds of teachers and school board employees found out they were losing jobs in a cutback.. through a curt e-mail. was not appropriate.
Davis said he was out of town at the time but still takes responsibility.
The cutbacks and the way they were handled led to calls from parents and teachers to fire Davis. But the board got a brushback pitch from State Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who warned in a letter that the board faced a takeover if it didn t handle its finances.
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