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Community-schools leader persuades committee to preserve recreation coordinator role
Summary
After a public statement from the community-schools coordinator describing programmatic reach and a healthy revolving account, the school committee voted 7'to preserve the coordinator of recreation and extracurricular programs position, rejecting proposed elimination as not cost-saving and operationally harmful.
Dr. Debaros Montero, who oversees community schools recreation and extracurricular programming, asked the committee to reconsider a proposed elimination of the coordinator position, arguing the role underpins one of community schools'four pillars and that the community-schools revolving account is "very healthy" with over $1 million in current funds.
"Removing the coordinator responsible for one of these four pillars weakens the entire community schools of Brockton," Montero said, describing year-round recreational programming, staffing, budgeting and facility coordination that would be difficult to reassign without loss of quality. She also noted that the staff member in the position is red-circled, meaning the salary obligation would remain even if the individual were reassigned.
Committee discussion focused on oversight of the revolving account and whether recreation programming should sit in parks and recreation rather than with the school district. Montero said community schools funds and operations are supervised by the district's finance office and that the revolving account can support the position.
Following discussion the committee voted to accept the documentation and preserve the community-schools recreation coordinator position; the motion passed with seven affirmative votes.
