Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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M: I think it was administrators ...

W: They had to live in that district to be elected from that

 district.

M: Okay. That was something entirely different.

W: And then they were elected by districts.

M: Which were the special school tax districts, weren't they?

W: Yeah. Well, no, they were the countywide districts, but they

 were political districts. You had to live in that district,

 you were elected only by that district, where they're now

 elected countywide regardless of which district they're'in.

 And at that time there were three county school board r onSo

 There's seven now I think.

M: Right.

W: After the trustees were abolished by referendum why, then they

 moved the school board from three to five and then later they

 went from five to seven.

M: When was the school board or the trustee system ... you're

 talking about 1947, aren't you?

W: Not, I don't know when it was, but it was after '47.

M: Oh, thta was something else then.

W: Well, in '47, no, in '47 they made one district whose boundaries

 were coexistent to the county, but you still A had that three

 trustees who had the district millage controlled and employ-

 ment within that district. But gradually they became reccending,