As part of her recent evaluation, Escambia Children’s Trust executive director Tammy Greer listed her accomplishments and challenges.
Under her accomplishments, she listed regular work items such as reviewing prior board minutes, paying bills, proposing ideas, attending meetings, exploring benefits and doing media interviews.
Meetings: Achieve Escambia, Lindsey Cannon-Children’s Home Society, Julian & Kim MacQueen, Community Action Program, Pace Center for Girls, Studer Community Institute, Dr. Ed Meadows, Michelle Watson, Quint Studer, Equity Project Alliance, CivicCon, Halfway Home Re-entry, Gulf Coast Kid’s House, Junior League, Kindergarten Community Action Network, Early Learning Coalition, Pensacola Women’s Alliance, Ted Kircharr, Carolyn Appleyard, Jenn Grove, Jenn McPherson, Laura Gilliam, Myra Van Hoose, Rusty Branch, Bruce Watson, Terry Horne, Dan Duncan, Cecile Soon, Studer Family Children’s Hospital, Adm. Cozad, Chamber Policy Committee, Parent University, Mental Health Task Force, Andrea Krieger, idGroup, Lakeview, Kyle Schooner, Todd Thomson, Kammy Young, Debra Goldberg, Circuit 1 Community Town Hall, Ministry Partnerships, Gun Violence Roundtable, FDOJ Youth Mental Health Summit, Build to Thrive Virtual Summit, The Lodges, Chandra Smiley, Abraham Sculley, School District Food Services Director, Sheriff Chip Simmons, ECSD Foundation, Joe Davis, Michael O’Neal, School District transformation team, PSC Non-profit Training.
Under ‘Unanticipated Challenges:’
Greer writes that setting up and running the Trust has been made difficult “by the number and extent of public record requests received, the negative newspaper and blog articles published, and the fact that ‘everyone knows everyone’ in the county.”
She has faced challenges connecting with a couple of board members and has hired a board liaison to help her get on each member’s calendar once a month.
She writes that operating in the Sunshine has “created unexpected obstacles to timely communication,” adding that it has taken her several months to “figure how to maneuver within the guidelines and get things done.”
The “gigantic unanticipated challenge” is “figuring out how to make the greatest positive impact with our limited funding.” How is that unanticipated? The voters have always expected the receiving the greatest impact.
Another challenge is “nurturing provider organizations’ leaders to be more open to change.” Greer say the Trust will be exposing outdated and unproven practices that need to be replaced with evidence-based practice —which has been the point of my criticism. She writes, “I have experienced surprising resistance to change from a few local providers’ leadership.”
The last challenge she lists is leveraging the Trust funds with state and federal funding. This would seem to be a challenge for the providers, not the Trust.
Read Greer Self-Eval
The Personnel Committee gave her these scores (1-5) – 5 means “exceeds expectations:”
Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz
Planning: 4
Financial & Program Management: 4
Operations Management: 4
Community Relations and Advocacy: 4
Governing Board Relations: 4
Patty Hightower
Planning: 3
Financial & Program Management: 3
Operations Management: 2
Community Relations and Advocacy: 3
Governing Board Relations: 3
David Peaden
Planning: 4
Financial & Program Management: 4
Operations Management: 4
Community Relations and Advocacy: 3
Governing Board Relations: 3
Melissa Sidoti
Planning: 3
Financial & Program Management: 4
Operations Management: 4
Governing Board Relations: 3
No Name Given
Planning: 3
Financial & Program Management: 3
Operations Management: 4
Community Relations and Advocacy: 4
Governing Board Relations: 3
Tori Woods
Planning: 5
Financial & Program Management: 5
Operations Management: 5
Community Relations and Advocacy: 5
Governing Board Relations: 3
Tim Smith
Planning: 5
Financial & Program Management: 4
Operations Management: 5
Community Relations and Advocacy: 5
Governing Board Relations: 4