Board Members

Please see our Events page for a complete listing of meetings. The minutes from all meetings can be found HERE.

Our board is dedicated to guiding and serving the needs of the Early Learning Coalition of Putnam & St. Johns Counties and the community. Our current Chair is Nancy R. Pearson.

Our full roster is below.

Count or N/A	Designation in F.S. 411.01(5)5	Mandatory Member	Voting Member	Name	County		Length of Current Term and End Date
I. REQUIRED MEMBERS
	Chair, appointed by the Governor	Yes	Yes	Nancy R. Pearson	St. Johns		4 Year April 30, 2013
	Private sector appointed by the Governor	Yes	Yes	VACANT			4 Year
	Private Sector appointed by the Governor	Yes	Yes	VACANT			4 Year
	Department of Children & Family Services district administrator or designee	Yes	Yes	Patricia Hubbard	Both		4 Year February 2013
	District superintendent of schools or designee	Yes	Yes	Lucy Brosky	Putnam		4 Year July 2013
	Regional workforce development board chair or director, where applicable	Yes	Yes	Bruce Ferguson	Both		4 Year December 2014
	County health Department director or designee	Yes	Yes	Sherry Russell	Putnam		4 Year August 2013
	President of a community college or designee	Yes	Yes	Melanie Rosen Brown, PH.D.	Both		4 Year February 2016
	Member appointed by Board of County Commissioners	Yes	Yes	Commissioner Mark Miner	St. Johns		4 Year December 2012
	Head Start Director	Yes	Yes	Mary Ann Holanchock	St. Johns		4 Year July 2013
	Representative of private child care providers	Yes	Yes	Jeff Kamm	Both		4 Year September 2012
	Representative of faith based child care providers	Yes	Yes	VACANT
	Representative of program under Disabilities Education Act	Yes	Yes	Nancy Elliot	Putnam		4 Year August 2015
II. CONDITIONAL MEMBERS These members are mandatory, if applicable in the coalition’s locality.
	Children services council or juvenile welfare board chair or executive director, if applicable	Yes, if applicable	Yes	NA			——
	Child care licensing agency head	Yes	Yes	NA			——
	Central child care agency administrator	Yes, if applicable	Yes	Connie Stophel	Both		4 Year August 2015
III . PRIVATE SECTOR* Includes Governor appointments. Total must be more than one-third of membership. Example: A 15 member board would require 6 private sector business members.) Neither they nor their relatives may have a substantial financial interest in the design or delivery of VPK or SR services.
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Bridget L. Van Landingham		St. Johns	4 Year December 2012
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Adam Deputy		Putnam	4 Year December 2014

	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Kenneth Forrester		St. Johns	4 year July 2013
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Jared Dollar		Putnam	4 Year August 2015
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Mike Siragusa		St. Johns	4 year June 2013
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Janet Westling		St. Johns	4 year August 2013
	Private Sector Business	No	Yes	Kim Kendall		St. Johns	4 year December 2014
IV. OPTIONAL MEMBERS*Neither they nor their relatives may have a substantial financial interest in the design or delivery of VPK or SR services and they may not duplicate representation of a legal entity. (Some exceptions provided in OEL-PG-0002-10). Multi-county coalitions are limited to 2 per county.
	Parent	No	Yes	NA
	Non-Profit Child Care Provider {if mandatory provider is not a family home provider}	No	Yes	NA
	DCF Staff {if there is noLicensing Agency}	No	Yes	NA
V. EX-OFFICIO NON-VOTING MEMBERS* In a multi-county coalition, each ex-officio member position may be filled by multiple non-voting members but no more than one voting member shall be seated per member position. If an early learning coalition has more than one member representing the same entity as a “Required Member” position, only one of such members may serve as a voting member.
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