{"id":3148,"date":"2011-01-10T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:00:21","slug":"county-transcript-attributes-statements-to-wrong-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"County Transcript Attributes Statement To Wrong Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

<\/strong>In Friday\u2019s edition of the Sentinel,<\/em><\/strong> some comments about the Head Start Program were attributed to the wrong commissioner. The Sentinel<\/em> <\/strong>has since learned that Commissioner Kevin Beckner,<\/strong> nor Commissioner Sandra Murman<\/strong> made the statements.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, when contacted by the Sentinel,<\/em>
\nCommissioner Les Miller, Jr.,<\/strong> referred to the last 30 minutes of the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners regular meeting held earlier during the day. On Friday, Commissioner Miller<\/strong> contacted the Sentinel<\/em><\/strong> and stated that the comments had been erroneously attributed to the wrong person.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Upon further inspection of the transcript, it was determined that the comments had not been made by Commissioner Kevin Beckner,<\/strong> but to Commissioner Sandra Murman, <\/strong>as the transcript indicated. The Comments were taken from the County\u2019s video of the meeting and presented verbatim.<\/p>\n

Terry McElroy, <\/strong>who is the Technical Manager for HTV for Hillsborough County said, \u201cThe Closed Caption Transcriber types about 300 Real Time words per minute. She just didn\u2019t change the name of the person speaking when she turned the page.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Kevin Beckner<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe statement attributed to Commissioner Beckner<\/strong> was by Commissioner Les Miller.<\/strong> The file has been corrected with a highlighted paragraph identifying the correct speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

The following statement is now correctly attributed to Commissioner<\/strong> Les Miller, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLes Miller, Jr.: \u201c<\/strong>I appreciate what all has been said by Commissioner Beckner <\/strong>and Commissioner Sharpe<\/strong> concerning Head Start, and there are some concerns in the community, there are some concerns of rumors\u00a0 going around concerning privatization, and I think that a lot of this started before I got here.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I heard it in the community, and I think that one of the things that is a concern and\u00a0— I might [private]as well be up front, there is a concern that there is an effort between the Children’s Board and this county to privatize Head Start.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a major, major concern out there \u2026I think that one of the major problems has been that the Policy Council feels that there\u2019s information that has not been shared with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a concern they have, and before I got here you talked about some language that you asked that the Children’s Board work with the\u00a0— with the county.<\/p>\n

\u201c…That wording or that discussion that appears to be the thorn in the claw is that there\u2019s an effort to privatize the Head Start Program with another entity, being the Children’s Board.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, if that happens, the efforts that this county puts forth, (not the readiness part of it because the readiness part is done by the Hillsborough County School District). But, the holistic approach of how you have families working with their children and the families getting educated to raise the children to have a holistic approach is a concern that if privatization will not occur. That\u2019s the major concern\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething has to be corrected because we\u2019re in a situation now that this whole thing can mushroom and explode before we even can put our hands on it. So I think one of the major, major issues that we\u2019ve got to take a handle on and make it perfectly clear, that Head Start, the Head Start that this county operates, will not be privatized, that’s the major issue \u2013 it\u2019s not going to be privatized.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the swirl of information out there in the community. I know it. I hear it every day almost. \u2026We\u2019re not going to privatize, we will continue to have a Head Start Program just as it is now\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026We\u2019re going to have to do something to let the people know that we are not looking at privatizing Head Start, and if we are, I\u2019m going to be the first one to start jumping on this table screaming and hollering why we should not,\u201d Commissioner Miller<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Miller<\/strong> said during a telephone interview that his major concern about the Head Start Program is to preserve the services that it offers to families in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe County educates not only the child, but the parents and the entire family. It gets them ready for school and for the world. I feel that if this program is privatized these families will not be offered those services.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major, major concern. The services will not come to the people who deserve and need them the most and I will continue to fight for these people. Turning the program over to the Children\u2019s Board is privatization to me.\u201d[\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor In Friday\u2019s edition of the Sentinel, some comments about the Head Start Program were attributed to the wrong commissioner. The Sentinel has since learned that Commissioner Kevin Beckner, nor Commissioner Sandra Murman made the statements. On Wednesday, when contacted by the Sentinel, Commissioner Les Miller, Jr., referred to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}