At the Nov. 11 organizational meeting, the Pinellas County School Board conducted nominations and elections for board leadership and the board’s nonprofit leasing corporation.

Nomination and election: Mrs. Hine nominated Caprice Edmond for chair; with no additional nominations, Edmond was elected by voice. For vice chair, nominations were taken for Dawn Peters and Katie Blaksberg; the board voted in order and Dawn Peters received four votes and was elected vice chair.

Leasing corporation: The board then convened the Pinellas School Board Leasing Corporation. Board attorney David Kaspersky explained the corporation’s purpose: a nonprofit vehicle the board uses to participate in Certificates of Participation (COPs) borrowing. He recommended appointing the school board chair as the corporate chair and the vice chair as the corporate vice chair; the board approved the motion 7–0.

The chair returned the gavel to Caprice Edmond following the organizational votes.