Attached are the following:

• Notes taken at the workshop

• Workshop evaluation & comments

• Names and telephone numbers of workshop participants to be used for networking purposes only

Please remember to do the following if at all possible:

1. Contact and thank Representative Dennis Baxley for coming to the workshop and for helping us get the Sick Leave Bill passed last year.  Telephone 352-732-1313 or 850-488-0335 dennis.baxley@myfloridahouse.gov

2. Contact and thank the following Senators and representative for agreeing to file bills for our three 2005 legislative priorities:
   • Senator Dennis Jones ® Pinellas County, sponsor of Senate Bill 1266 to raise the retirement multiplier from 1.6% to 2.1%.  Telephone 727-549-6411 or 850-487-5065 jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov 
   • Representative Joe Pickens ® Putman County, sponsor of House Bill 563 companion Bill to above Senate Bill 1266.  Telephone 1-866-487-7507 or 850-488-0665 joe.pickens@myfloridahouse.gov
   • Senator Al Lawson (D) Leon county, will file companion Senate Bill to House Bill 781 below. Telephone 850-487-5004 lawson.alfred.web@flsenate.gov
   • Representative Bob Allen ® Brevard County, sponsor of House Bill 781 to raise the insurance supplement from $5 to $7.  Telephone 321-449-5111 or 850-488-4669 bob.allen@myfloridahouse.gov
   • Senator Charley Clary, ® Fort Walton Beach, sponsor of Senate Bill 788 to extend the DROP for administrators.  Telephone 850-833-9159 or 850-914-6252 clary.charlie.web@flsenate.gov
   • Representative Ralph Arza, ® Miami/Dade, will file companion House Bill to above Senate Bill 788 above.  Telephone 305-8272720 or 850-488-1683 ralph.arza@myfloridahouse.gov

3. Set up a networking procedure in your district for a quick response to a grass roots call to action such as a telephone tree, an e-mail tree, or some other mechanism.

4. Lobby local legislators now before the legislative session starts and share pertinent information with them about our three legislative priorities.

5. Read all the materials provided at the workshop regarding the priorities and share the one pager with the legislator before you leave.  Talk to the legislator’s assistant if you cannot get an audience with the legislator.

6. Share all you have learned with your colleagues.

7. Be sure we all speak with the same message.

8. Plan to attend the FASA Legislative Days on March 14, 15, & 16.

9. Log on to HASA’s Web Site and click on HOT MAIL to get the latest news on legislative activities.

10. Establish Political Action Committees (PAC) as soon as possible and affiliate yourselves with the FASA/PAC.

11. Join FASA and ask others to do the same.  We need a strong State Organization if we are to become a strong voice in Florida Politics.

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FASA Networking Action Workshop Notes

February 19, 2005

Notes taken by Mari McBryar 

In attendance:  Rob Aguis (Pasco), Kenneth Allen (Hillsborough), Jesus Armas (Palm Beach), Scott Atkins (Pasco), Terry Aunchman (Pasco), Nuri Ayres (Hillsborough), Cindy Bania (Pinellas), Dennis Baxley (FL Representative), Diane Bell (Palm Beach), Michael Bohnet (Pinellas), Patricia Bowman (Seminole), Janelle Buck (Hillsborough), Betsy Butler (Brevard), Larry Carmichael (FREA), Lorraine Colby (Sarasota), Barbara Dick (Hillsborough), Theodore Floyd (Hillsborough), Brian Flynn (Manatee), Beverly Girard (Sarasota), Ellery Girard (Sarasota), George Hatch (Polk), Clyde Hoff (Charlotte), Cathy Hoff (Charlotte), Peggy Johns (Pinellas), Jean Leone (Hillsborough), Gaye Lively (Pinellas), Ken Marsh (Sarasota), Gay Martin (Polk), Lois Mautte (Hillsborough), Lynne McGee (Palm Beach), John Miliziano (Hillsborough), Richard Myers (Brevard), Candace Odierna (Hillsborough), Mike Phillips (Hillsborough), Vern Pickup-Crawford (FASA), Walter Pierce (Palm Beach), Patricia Ramsey-Barney (Orange), Denver Raney (Manatee), Sherri Reynolds (Sarasota), Neriah Roberts (Polk), Mike Schilsky (Volusia), Marty Shapiro (Pinellas), Tom Stanton (Pinellas), Gail Stout (Pasco), Sharon Warnecke (Lee), Susan Wilson  (Hernando), John Wilson (Polk), and Shelia Windom (Orange), Mike Eader (FASA), Juhan Mixon (FASA), Terry Golden (FASA), Pat Smith (Hillsborough), Mary Cunningham (Hillsborough), Dan Valdez (Hillsborough), Reid Wallace (Manatee) and Kathy Walker (Pinellas). 
 

I.  The Importance of Grassroots Lobbying 

Speaker:  Representative Dennis Baxley, Chairman, House Education Council 

• Schools/districts full of Democrats, but Tallahassee full of Republicans.  Need to form relationships with them.  Although focus on teachers and classrooms is important, it is overshadowing leadership!
• Be specific with legislators!  Give solutions – don’t be non-specific – it’s very important.  Communicate!  Get your ideas across:

LAIR:

L = Listen and learn

A = Acknowledge and affirm what is being said;

I = Investigate and clarify.  Probe the thinking behind what’s being said

R = Respond = don’t react.

• Don’t fail to use your lobbyist – they know the issues and people and tell the truth to you.   BUT – no one can replace you when taking issues to legislators.

Some emerging issues: 

• Career/Vo-Tech:  Reshape how we do business.  Drive points of relevancy all the way to post-secondary levels.  Know where student is going when they come out – school or workforce?
• A+ and AYP:  Smooth some things out – don’t want to pit Governor against President’s program.
• Class Size Amendment:  We need help!  Asking voters to give the 6 degree correction – give management flexibility to make needed changes, to use some resources for other incentives such as teacher pay raises to attract the “good” ones.  Have to work toward a balanced end.
• Voluntary Pre-K:  400 million dollars will prepare more 4-year-olds for school – has to make a difference.  V = Voluntary.  Credentials are not everything – need to know KIDS!  Expand opportunities for access to every 4-year-old.
• Board of Governors:  Clarify roles; better Leadership Development programs; we are looking at 60% turnover ahead in administrators.

Questions:

1. How do we get legislators to change their impression that administrators are not educators?

Answer:  Don’t play the blame game – be positive, not negative.  Invite legislators to your schools – emphasize the positive, your goals and plans, be confident!   Don’t give up. 

2. Reward program for administrators? 

Answer:  A++ package coming soon – professional development piece should be significant with dollars to match.   Administrators want to better themselves and WIN.  Opportunities are on the way. 

3. Difference between A+ and AYP?

Answer:  Have to look at the BIG picture – The struggle is achieving the very thing we submitted to DOE.  Again, adjustment is needed.

4. Social Promotion: How is it being addressed?

Answer:  Sad but true, social promotion exists.  The only thing that could affect change, and all the way back to Pre-K, is 3^rd grade retention.  Must view retention differently than failure.  Set some benchmarks, bench points and give flexibility to schools to help kids learn. 

II. Restoring Sick Leave – How Did It Happen? 

Speaker:  Mike Eader, Executive Director, FASA 

• First order of business in new job – sick leave bill.  Highest priority; couldn’t do it without grassroots network help.
• Get to know your legislators.  Lobbying is all-year- round. 
• Best shot is when they are running for election; invite them to your school.  Explain our positions and reasons to support or delete legislation.
• For Legislative Days:  Get enough information.  Give complete information so questions can be answered.  Emails – phone calls made the difference for the sick leave bill.  
• How to deal at the last minute?  Find people close to Governor to make a difference; do a call to action; Rep. Baxley went to bat for us and got it done.   Veto letter turned into “signature into law”. 
• Need to meet geographically across the state to get all fellow administrators together to affect grass roots effort.

Speaker:  John Miliziano

Executive Director, Hillsborough Association of School Administrators, &                  President, Tampa Bay Area Coalition

• Became involved when the Superintendent assigned him be rep on HASA committee and look at the Sick Leave Bill.  A lobbyist was hired for about 8 years to battle John McKay.  Sick Leave Bill was the paramount issue across the state at the time.  FASA was working to defeat bill as well.
• Everyone had separate approach to defeating bill.  Finally, Tampa Bay Area Coalition got together to share information, support each other, etc.  Unified goal was to get Sick Leave Bill passed.  Get unified message to Tallahassee.  Grassroots support grew. 
• Folks in Tallahassee knew how to put a package together and know the right folks to help get the Bill through the legislative process. 
• Network together, speak as one voice, join the state organization – need strong local and state organizations.

Speaker:  Vern Pickup-Crawford, FASA Consultant    

• A major philosophic change occurred when Republicans came into House and Senate.  1998 elected the third Republican Governor in history, but for the first time in years, total Republican legislature that had an agenda to show that Democrats were doing things wrong.   Much of agenda was to undo 100 years of work.   They now own the system, but cannot attack themselves.  Have had to take a little different attitude – we need to build on that. 
• Invite legislators into schools – let them see what is going on.  Principals in particular should be the education leader to be able to give first hand information from experience to legislators – establish that rapport and earn that degree of respect to slip in issues such as retirement, sick leave, etc.  Talk about education first, and then add issues of retirement, sick leave, etc. 
• Rapid response calls to action are necessary.  Governor’s Kitchen Sink Bill (everything in it) will need immediate response time – matter of hours, not days.

Speaker:  Juhan Mixon, FASA Lobbyist  

• Lost terminal leave because John McKay came in as President of Senate/Rules Chair - most powerful person because they set agenda for bills to appear.   No communication system in place, no quick response system in place – we became doom and gloom. 
• Went to McKay to make deals.  We didn’t have a focused message when we went to McKay.  Districts started using other issues to deal. 
• Local associations began forming PACs.  Got a lot of attention.  Politicians were thinking of how to get re-elected.  PACs communicate a lot.
• Third year Sick Leave bill came up.  Jerry Melvin went up against Charley Clary.  Charley won by only a few hundred votes.  School administrators made the difference in the election and Clary sponsored the bill for administrators. 
• Ralph Arza is in good with Governor.  We attached our wagon to his star.  So, we found the right sponsor, communicated, focused the message onto one-pager and we distributed it to people.  Gave them the reasons and something to leave with legislator.  Opportunities to lunch with legislator.  Total focus was terminal leave. 
• Got hung up in House, but Legislative Days turned the tide – the bill got moving.      FASA agreed to endorse FAIR amendment in return for help with Sick Leave Bill.  John McKay called Tom Lee to release bill before the Senate.   
• Bill came up in Senate – McKay’s former aide tried to amend the bill with non-relevant amendment to kill the bill.   Steve Wise (Jacksonville) called point of order and amendment was removed.  Stalled again on Governor’s desk.  Veto message was written; Arza and Baxley were contacted and communicated with the Governor.  Governor agreed to reverse the Veto. 
• Lessons:  Focused message; networking; Legislative Days; Lots of issues including:  AYP/A+, grading alternative schools, etc.  Can’t win a war playing defense; win issues by playing offense. 

III. FASA’s 2005 Legislative Platform 

Speaker:  Terry Golden, FASA Lobbyist

• Each of the constituent organizations of FASA puts together priorities; Legislative Committee at FASA starts looking over them in the summer and in the fall the FASA Board finalized everything to be consistent and tidy.   Legislative Agenda is formed. 

Emerging issues: 

• AYP/A+
• Slot Machines – Broward and Miami/Dade
• Hurricane Waiver Issues – Class Size waivers – hold harmless on FCAT.  Federal hold harmless on No Child Left Behind.
• Alternative Schools – current commissioner recommended assessing alternative schools in the same vein as every other school.  Absolutely ludicrous – different
• Phys Ed – Nutrition, physical activity, etc.  Knock off the mandates.  We know what is needed.
• V-Pre-K – Lot of work to be done – very little consensus.   
• Class Size Reduction -  

IV. Playing Well with Others – Networking for Effective Advocacy 

Speaker:  Dr. Walter Pierce – Executive Director, Palm Beach County Administrator Associations

• 90% of school-based administrators are members in Palm Beach County.
• Good relationship with Superintendent – meet with almost daily.
• Regular breakfast/lunch with Board Members.
• Communication and networking:  Set up “umbrella” effect to get information out.  Within an hour, 300-400 calls and emails out to members.   Don’t do on school time or school computer.
• Need to act quickly and act with one voice. 
• Need to make it easier for APs to be FASA members.  Dues are paid from their own pockets, whereas principals can pay dues from internal accounts. 
• Superintendent and School Board Members need support of teachers/administrators to survive. 
• Principals’ salary should be in excess of $100K because of the complexities of position in these times – across the board (elementary, middle and high).   Starting:  between $80K - $96K.
• Everyone needs to be on same page, support each other. 

Speaker:  Vern Pickup -Crawford 

• Moments of crisis bring about increased membership.  Today’s enemy can be tomorrow’s friend, or vice versa.  Never close the door all the way. 
• Every principal has community members behind them, business partners, etc.  Principals and teachers are paramount to the success of the Superintendent and School Board Members.  Community is a key communicator of your issues!   Principals can be extremely influential in the community.   
• Strong relationship with Board and Superintendent essential to administrator groups. 
• Support and work closely with other district administrator associations.  People in power come from everywhere in the state. 
• Network with FASA associates and other administrator associations’ representatives at events such at Legislative Days, workshops, etc.

V.  FASA’s Top Three Legislative Priorities 

Speaker:  John Miliziano 

• Speaking points:  Everyone using the same material.  Be able to explain reasoning behind priorities.  Interested in recruiting the best and brightest leaders available for education.  Too many other opportunities for them to explore.

1. Raising the multiplier that determines retirement.  1.6% to 2%.  It’s time that Educators get fair shake.   Educators are only group that hasn’t moved up in 30 years!   We’re tired of hearing that there are too many educators.  Not enough money is their only answer.
2. HIS trust fund (health insurance subsidy) trust fund.  Funded by 1% of district contributions and then given back to retirees at a rate of $5 for each year of service after retirement.  Insurance costs have doubled but benefit stayed the same since 1997 (it was $3 then).
3. DROP – teachers got extension - administrators did not.  Administrators at 62 years old and 30 years of service have to DROP or lose the chance.  Teachers can come back after staying out a month – administrators have to sit out a year or give up benefits.  Changes need to be made.

• Documents with Legislative Bills information will be emailed to participants.
• Survey of Southeastern States retirement benefits distributed for information. Make copies and make sure legislators know that Florida can’t attract the best and brightest if the light at the end of the tunnel is not competitive. 
• Distributed pie charts/bar graphs depicting upcoming retirements or DROP participants.  54% of Hillsborough’s school based administrators are on the way out.  Teachers will be promoted to fill those positions.  44% of district level administrators are headed out, and those spots will be filled by principals and assistant principals.
• Good communication effort is Email Tree (personal, home email tree).  Forward documents or call to action.  Website is good communication tool for HASA, also.  Newsletter contains important information for communicating to our members. 

VI.   Florida Retirement System and Health Insurance Subsidy 

Speaker:  Larry Carmichael, Lobbyist, Florida Retired Educators’ Association (FREA)  

• Florida Retired Educators has multiple activities, including legislative. 
• Legislature set up FRS Board of Trustees to oversee fund.
• Attorney General, Governor, and Chief Financial Officer sit on Board of Trustees of trust fund.  All dollars that come in from employer contributions go to clearing house and then into fund.
• Coleman Stipanovich is current Executive Director.  Responsible for investing and keeping trust fund safe, along with other trust funds.
• Created in 1970 by legislature as a separate group that reports through Board of Trustees to legislature.  Administrative wing is called Division of Retirement and is set up separately.  State government is 25% of contributors, the remaining 75% throughout the state in different agencies.
• 225,000 retirees look to Division as a “payroll” department.
• Legislature, in setting up who does what, retained a lot of control for themselves (basically a good thing).
• HIS began at $1 per month, then was raised to $3 and then to $5.  Application is needed for benefits to be paid.  Can only be used for health insurance premiums.   Does not count as income for tax purposes. 
• FRS began in 1970 and smaller retirement systems (teachers, judges, etc) were combined.  Was then only funded 20%.  Legislature created a plan that enabled FRS a good rating when paying off actuarial debt. Reached 100% in 1998.  
• Actuarial value is anticipated to increase each year. 
• State Board of Administration has guidelines for investments of FRS dollars.  48% in domestic stock; 4% in global stock (offered in other countries and NYSE); 14% in international stock (not offered on NYSE);  22% in fixed income (mortgages, bonds, cash); 7% in real estate, and 5% in alternative investments.  Commitment of State Board is to make as much as possible for investors. 

Question:  At community college level, retirement options are offered.  Why can’t school districts go with alternate plan that pays more?

Answer:   State law does not authorize. 

VII:   How FASA Can Help with Advocacy 

Speaker:  Juhan Mixon 

• Networking!
• Legislative Days!  Will talk to Superintendents who won’t allow you to go.

Speaker:  Mike Eader  

• Monitor legislation.  Organize more meetings statewide.  Time to be a team!  Together everyone achieves more!  Must be a team.

Speaker - Terry Golden 

• AYP and A+ - April 1^st Deadline – Watch for Call to Action to administrators and ask representatives to call Governor.  Are going to ask for four changes – details forthcoming.   AYP will have severe impact on schools.  90% of schools are expected to fail AYP this coming year.

Speaker:  Nuri Ayres, President, FASA 

• Next step – Legislative Days!
• Build relationships!

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WORKSHOP EVALUATION SUMMARY AND PARTICIPANT COMMENTS

FASA ALERT ACTION NETWORKING WORKSHOP

FEBRUARY 19, 2005

by: Terry Aunchman

Evaluation is a necessary condition for growth. Your comments about this workshop will be an invaluable aid as future programs are planned. This particular evaluation is open ended-designed to elicit spontaneous response. Creative suggestions and critical comments on any phase of the workshop are encouraged.

1.  Workshop Format

Each category below was rated from 1-5 with 1 being low and 5 high.

	1	2	3	4	5
Choice of Activities	0	0	1	13	23
Time Allocation	0	0	4	5	31
Agenda/Program	0	0	0	5	35
Arrangements/Facilities	0	0	1	6	33

 

 

 

 

(BELOW ARE RESPONSES FROM WORKSHOP ATTENDEES)

• Kicking the workshop off with Dennis Baxley was phenomenal, he was an excellent speaker, and set the tone for the rest of the agenda.
• Good location and great lunch.
• The kick off with D. Baxley was excellent. He put things in perspective. The facilities were excellent. Attendance was appositive representation of districts and to the cause.
• Very relaxed and well paced.
• Good arrangements…but chairs were hard.
• Great except for the afternoon the chairs got hard!
• Informative.
• Nice arrangement of tables, name tags great room for such an event.
• Well-planned, good info, good time frames.
   

2.  Speakers, Discussion Leaders:

Each category below was rated from 1-5 with 1 being low and 5 high.

Below is the total number for each category based on attendee ratings.

	1	2	3	4	5
Knowledge - Substance	0	0	0	3	37
Motivation - Zeal	0	0	0	4	36
Commitment - Interest	0	0	0	2	38
Overall Performance	0	0	0	4	36

 

 

 

 

(BELOW ARE RESPONSES FROM WORKSHOP ATTENDEES)

•  Great to hear from REP. Baxley

• Good breaks etc. well timed and well planned

• Outstanding!! Terry Golden bright!

• This was wonderful! Very helpful.

• With the exception of one, all speakers were very motivating and informative.

• Wonderful speakers.

• Recommend that we continue the FASA Alert Networking Workshops annually.

• Very informative, excellent.

• Hats off to Dr. Miliziano for orchestrated this informational event.

• Rep. Baxley, very inspirational.

• Excellent workshop with very knowledgeable speakers.

• Time well spent.

• Every speaker was very passionate, Baxley, Mixon, Pierce, “Dr J” Miliziano did an outstanding job.

• I feel that I received valuable info and handouts today.
   

3. How might this workshop be improved?

(BELOW ARE RESPONSES FROM WORKSHOP ATTENDEES) 

• Activity to force interaction? Lunch was great thank you
• We need more of this type of this collaboration.
• More time allotted for networking amongst participants, perhaps a 1-hour lunch next time.
• Please be sure to have sufficient copies of all handouts for all attendees.
• As one coming for the first time I would have liked more nuts and bolts on the legislative process. I hoped to leave here with a comfort level such that I’d feel ready to trek to Tallahassee.
• It was excellent; the only thing is to have more administrators present.
• Need opportune time on agenda for counties to plan how to designate information to other administrators.
• More time to network
• This was my first workshop. The session was impressive and encouraged me to become more active. This was time well spent.
• Specific recommendations how to/what to do next if I am not going to Tallahassee. What should I do at my level? Also little time spent on legislators/what I can and can’t do would be helpful.
• Give us names of contacts of other associations and their contact information.
• Continue workshops of this nature: continue to place major emphasis of administrator’s legislative priorities.
• Possibly a period of time for attendees to meet in small groups (mixed county groups) to share and input report out issues for that respective region.
• Thought it was excellent as is.
• We need more people as a team bring in more.
• More networking among associations- what they offer to their members and how we can improve our local associations.
   

(BELOW ARE RESPONSES FROM WORKSHOP ATTENDEES) 

• Guest speakers very knowledgeable
• Tips for keeping on point and getting the message across working together to prioritize issues.
• Sharing of information
• Stating our major issues this year when lobbying {John Miliziano} Back up info about major issues
• Hearing from Mixon, Baxley, Eader, and Miliziano about the inner workings of the passing of bills and the legislative process.
• The review of the bills.
• Focus on the issues. Keep on updating members. Thanks for getting us organized and focused.
• Concise platform issues/FRS info with tips on how to communicate with legislators.
• J. Mixon's dynamic presentation—great content and useful tips.
• To hear from key people and network with others.
• To understand the process a bill would take and the emphasis on relationships and networking.
• Hearing Dennis Baxley speak, I learned a lot about how things get done in Tallahassee. I also liked networking during lunch.
• Providing an overview on how the sick leave benefit was restored was most beneficial. To hear about this process from several viewpoints enhanced this presentation.
• Every speaker was informative. I learned a great deal from each one.
• Information o FASA legislation platform.
• The presentations made by Dennis Baxley and Larry Carmichael.
• Hearing about passing of bill.
• Meeting with FASA leaders and lobbyists. Information from Baxley on how to work with legislators, comments supported by FASA leaders.
• Overview of legislative platform for 2005.
• Representative Baxley’s presentation was wonderful. He really gave an honest perspective of legislator’s perspective and perceptions.
• Rep. Baxley was very informative.
• Rep. Dennis Baxley.

5.  Which workshop activity was least beneficial to you?

(BELOW ARE RESPONSES FROM WORKSHOP ATTENDEES) 

• Playing well with others.
• FRS presentation.
• The selection process was excellent. All of the planned activities were beneficial.
• Every activity was beneficial, interesting and important to my position.
• FRS didn’t have an impact; I think it probably should have to lay a foundation for the actuary.
• 0—Thanks for a great day-- good workshop and good networking.
• Too much history on sick leave bill.
• FRS presentation lacked relevance to the legislative process and other workshop topics. Perhaps, if Larry showed the connection to the 1.6—2.0 multiplier and the insurance subsidy as it relates to the current platform.

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NAMES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS OF WORKSHOP ATTENDEES

To be used for Networking Purposes Only

Presenters

DENNIS K BAXLEY
Florida House of Representatives, Florida House District #24,  111SE 25th Ave, Ocala, Florida 33135-2203. Work telephone 352-732-1313, E-Mail dennis.baxley@myfloridahouse.gov.

LARRY CARMICHAEL
Lobbyist for the Florida Retired Teachers Association, 850-877-7618

MIKE EADER
Executive Director of FASA, 206 B South Monroe St. Tallahassee, FL 32301, 850-224-3626

JUHAN MIXON
FASA Lobbyist, 850-222-2591

TERRY GOLDEN
FASA Lobbyist, 850-321-5775

VAN PICKET-CRAWFORD
Consultant for FASA, 561-644-2439

WALTER PIERCE
Executive Director of Palm Beach County Administrators Association, 561-755-2616

NURI AYRES
President of FASA, 813-631-4742

JOHN MILIZIANO
Executive Director of the Hillsborough County Administrators Association, 813-265-0001
 

WORKSHOP ATTENDEES

CHARLOTTE COUNTY	PALM BEACH COUNTY
Clyde Hoff 941-637-1690	Lynne McGee, 561-795-4976
Cathy Hoff 941-255-7470	Diane Bell, 561-641-1270
	Jesus Armas, 561-795-4977
BREVARD COUNTY
Richard Myers 321-633-3500	PASCO COUNTY
Betsy Butler 321-264-3085	Gail Stout, 813-794-2201
	Terry Aunchman, 813-794-9400
HERNANDO COUNTY	Scott Atkins, 813-794-0100
Susan Wilson, 352-797-7067 Ext. 402	Rob Aguis, 727-744-1700
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY	PINELLAS COUNTY
Michael Phillips, 813-635-1252	Tom Stanton, 727-547-7130
Theodore Floyd, 813-276-5596 Ext. 224	Marty Shapiro, 727-893-2926 Ext. 118
Candace Odierna, 813-744-8360 Ext.235	Gaye Lively, 727-552-1449
Ken Allen, 813-276-5666	Peggy Johns, 727-588-6346
Lois Mautte, 813-975-6945	Michael Bohnet, 727-547-7876 Ext. 2002
Janelle Buck, 813-356-1290	Cindy Bania, 588-6030
Jean Leone, 813-254-9961
Mary Cunningham, 813-272-3070	POLK COUNTY
Pat Smith, 813-273-7074	John Wilson, 863-499-2840
Mari McBryar, 813-273-7234	Neriah Roberts, 863-686-7454
Barbara Dick, 813-231-1970	Gay Martin, 863-419-3166
	George Hatch, 863-701-1104
LEE COUNTY
Sharon Warnecke. 239-410-6212	SARASOTA COUNTY
	Lorraine Colby, 941-361-6240
MANATEE COUNTY	Sherri Reynolds, 941-927-9000 Ext. 34309
Denver Raney, 941-708-8770 Ext. 2249	Ken Marsh, 941-927-9000 Ext. 31111
Brian Flynn, 941-708-6100	Beverly Girard, 941-486-2199
Reid Wallace, 941-721-6840 Ext.201	Ellery Girard, 941-927-9000
ORANGE COUNTY	SEMINOLE COUNTY
Patricia Ramsey-Baney, 407-921-3314	Patricia Bowman, 407-320-8902
Shelia Windom,  407-884-2265 Ext. 237
	VOLUSIA COUNTY
	Mike Schilsky, 386-734-7190 Ext. 20596