Jessica Jordan, Gainesville Times
- Men’s faces beaded with sweat as they loosened their ties to escape the humidity lingering after the summer afternoon’s storm. And one mother’s face carried warnings for her children squirming in the church pews.
But roughly all 50 faces – mostly black, a few white and one Latino – turned their gazes to four of the five Gainesville school board members seated Thursday in the pulpit of Bethel A.M.E. Church on Mill Street. They wanted answers.
With a now defunct Monday deadline looming for the Gainesville city school board to finalize the 2009 budget, taxpayers demanded answers from board members trying to chip away at the school system’s estimated $6.5 million deficit.
