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Community Development Board Members Not Contacted About Charter Application
August 14, 2008
More information has emerged about a school charter application filed by the Century Community Development Partnership (CCDP) in the name of the group and the Century Blue Ribbon Committee on Education.
The Town of Century’s Blue Ribbon Committee has already said this week that they never saw the application that was filed in their name. Click here to read that story.
And now NorthEscambia.com has learned that members of the CCDP never saw or even knew about the application either prior to it being filed by CCDP leader Irvin Stallworth. Stallworth is also the chairman of the town’s Blue Ribbon Committee.
“I had no knowledge of the charter application” Sue Straughn told NorthEscambia.com. Straughn sits on the board of directors for the Century Community Development Partnership, and she is a prominent Pensacola television newscaster. “I know that it did not ever come before the (CCDP) board. They only thing we every discussed was housing for Century.”
“I knew nothing of the application as well. No one polled me,” said CCDP board member Pat Crawford from the University of West Florida. “We discussed housing. We never discussed schools.”
La-Vonne Haven, executive director of the Gulf Wind Council of Camp Fire U.S.A. and CCDP board member echoed Straughn’s comments. “I wasn’t aware of the charter application until after it was filed,” she said. “I was told that I was missed when Rev. Stallworth polled all of the board members to see if the application should be filed.”
CCDP board members Hosea Pittman told NorthEscambia.com that he had been out of state for an extended period due to a family illness. “They may have attempted to call me, but I have been out of state. They did not reach me about the application.”
The other member of the Century Community Development Partnership is school board member and superintendent candidate Claudia Brown-Curry. NorthEscambia.com attempted to reach Brown-Curry, but were unable to speak to her. She did return our phone calls Wednesday night following a political rally, and she did leave a message on our voice mail. But no one was in our office to speak to Brown-Curry when she returned our call after 9:00 Wednesday night.
We have left messages and made multiple attempts to reach Stallworth since Sunday, but as of early Thursday morning he had not returned our phone calls.
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