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School District’s Office Of Supplier Diversity And NAACP Host End Of Year Celebration
On Wednesday, Decem- ber 14, the Hillsborough County Public School Dis- trict Office of Supplier Di- versity and the
Hillsborough
Branch of the NAACP hosted its ‘End Of Year Cel- ebration’.
School Board members, district employees, consult- ants, NAACP board mem- bers and small business owners enjoyed the lunch, networking and program held at the Sam Horton In- structional Service Center.
The Hillsborough County School District Board ap- proved policy in April 2010 to dictate the direction in which the District would in- fluence the use and partici- pation of small businesses. Since that time the District has worked closely with the NAACP and has a Satellite Office within the NAACP’s Empowerment Center.
The office’s chief officer of diversity for the district is Minerva Spanner-Mor- row.
County
The Chief of Schools and Ad- ministration, Harrison Peters with School Board member, Susan Valdez.
NAACP officers and board members, Joe Robinson and Yvette Lewis.
Steve and Tracy Weston.
Yancy Wilson, Danny Persaud, Eric J. Graham, Larry Davis, Max Volmar, Jr., and Craig Rainey.
Gretchen Saunders, chief of business for the district and Ben- nie Smalls, of the NAACP.
Lamar Dula and Chuck Laney.
Pamela McCoy and Johana Ro- driguez.
School district consultant, Robert Morrison, Esq.
Roberta wards.
Warren
and
M.
Ed-
AC Thomas, Collette Glover Han- nah and L. Thomas Robinson.
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