Northwest Florida Leadership institute slipped into state budget
Posted on May 12, 2009 - Filed Under Business
Not all leadership institutes and programs are legitimate. It is a good idea to research any program before going into. Here is an interesting story out of Florida about how a leadership institute has become political.
Kelli Hernandez of the Northwest Florida Daily News discovered that the Northwest Florida Leadership Institute was all about politics.
According to the proposal for the school, it was needed because the need for leadership development had become more pressing.
The reporter found that Florida State Rep. Ray Sansom ended up inserting more than $8 million into the state budget for a school that nobody in the local business community asked for or needed.
This institute was never even discussed with the Senate Education Committee Chairman Don Gaetz, despite the fact it is being built in Gaetz’s home town of Gainesville, Florida.
According to the article Gaetz said he did not understand why the institute was needed in the first place since leadership training had always been done due to the need to pursue leadership skills.
The college will remain under scrutiny until it is built and opened. So far the college will see no further funding from the state and there are talks to have it taken out of the budget entirely. This of course is just one example of how a potential place for education can be used at political oil to start a fire in the state of Florida. There are many programs and ways to gain expertise in the leadership development and ways to obtain leadership training. In this economy, wasteful spending even for something like this institute can’t be tolerated.
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