Not only did Castell shut down the airport welcome room, it seems that last fall, the university asked to be released from its contract a year early, said Victoria Maleszewski, business services manager for the airport.
The contract, which began in September 1999, was supposed to expire in April 2008. The airport agreed to release FAMU from the contract.
Space costed FAMU 11,000 a year
"At this time, the annual payment due in the amount of $11,517.66 is over five (5) months past due," Malezewski said.
Continue reading FAMU's convoluted story about how this entire deal went down. It's more buck passing and finger pointing than anybody ever imagined: Airport story
See: Castell rolls up airport welcome mat
Just plain evil!
ReplyDeleteThe name of the Game is HOW MUCH EVIL CAN SHE & HER CO-CONSPIRATORS HEAP UPON THE UNIVERSITY BEFORE EITHER SHE OR IT SHUTS DOWN OR AT LIMPING IN THE SUNSET.
ReplyDeleteI agree! How much more? She has attempted to destroy everything possible about FAMU. No wonder the graduates were cold to her at the ceremony. Many walked by and did not shake her hand. She is evil!
ReplyDeleteYes evil? This institution is not broke. However, if it had knowledgeable administration with a background in higher education, the university would not be in this situation. Once again, this administration must end immediately!!! Tell Castell that!!
ReplyDeleteSo it is all Castell's fault? People on this board are blind and dumb. Just wait until Ammons has to make the tough decisions. Rattler Nation is going to turn on him as well, prohibiting meaningful change, resulting in FAMU's demise. Yes your institution is broke! With decreasing enrollment comes less money, hence no dollars for the airport lease. Also, the SUS is about to start rewarding retention and graduation rates, which will further decrease the enrollment of FAMU. So quit calling people childish things like "evil" and get real!
ReplyDelete"You are silly; now what!"
ReplyDeleteRN, can you comment on the amount of the lease at the airport and how uch money has been spent, collectively, since 1999, when the FAMU Room was established? If the Ciy of Tallahassee was allowing FAMU to lease the space for a decidely small cost, how much were these costs affecting the overall budget at the university? Surely, the costs were not so overwhelming that the university could not afford to continue leasing the space. Can we get som e solid clarification on this, please? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI agree! How much more? She has attempted to destroy everything possible about FAMU. No wonder the graduates were cold to her at the ceremony. Many walked by and did not shake her hand. She is evil!
5/04/2007 6:21 PM
Get outta here? I didn't hear about that.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteSo it is all Castell's fault? People on this board are blind and dumb. Just wait until Ammons has to make the tough decisions. Rattler Nation is going to turn on him as well, prohibiting meaningful change, resulting in FAMU's demise. Yes your institution is broke! With decreasing enrollment comes less money, hence no dollars for the airport lease. Also, the SUS is about to start rewarding retention and graduation rates, which will further decrease the enrollment of FAMU. So quit calling people childish things like "evil" and get real!
5/04/2007 9:48 PM
You're "evil" ....ROFLMBAO
We must stand up and say FUC* the SUS and SOS ( save our selves) from this new and continued racsim of the 21st century!
ReplyDeletewhat the hell...?!?!?!?!
ReplyDeletestand up and say FUC the SUS? famu is not a private institution. it is public and must answer to the SUS and the state. if famu wants to do neither return the campus to the state, find an new location for the school and go private. but until then you have to play by the same rules that other institutions abide by. this is not racism, this is accountability.
ReplyDeleteNEWSFLASH: If any wants to know the reason the airport's FAMU Room has been shut down, read the article in the Tallahassee Democrat (5/5/07) issue: www.tdo.com
ReplyDeleteJust plain dumb! FAMU how u let this crazy lady run the school in the ground is just shameful!!!
ReplyDeletehumphries has had an equal part in this. there is a suit against famu with regard to a woman that cried mismanagement at famu. she worked under humphries, but she was later terminated. you can't just blame castel. the responsibility lies in many hands.
ReplyDelete3:13---who is this person that you speak of? You gotta give up the goods, name-wise.
ReplyDeletewere there a LOT of students that didn't shake her hand? if so then that speaks volumes about her relationship with the student body.
ReplyDeleteI can testify to students walking by her. It was a shame!! I saw at least 10. However, I did not view the entire ceremony. I was told by graduates that the faculty were rolling eyes as she passed going to the stage. She is such a fake at that ceremony. Please view the grad ceremony on FAMU 20.
ReplyDeleteIf I had been scheduled to graduate Spring '07, I would've postponed my graduation, taken another course and graduated during the summer just so that woman's name wouldn't be scrawled across my degree. I don't blame the students for dissing her at the graduation. She deserves every diss she got as well as every Rattler hiss she should have gotten as well.
ReplyDeleteItis unfortunate that the university is givingup this space. I agree that this is a meaningless expense when the university has so many more important items to spend its monies on. This is something another group or sponsors should do on behalf of the university. Why doesn't the alumni association pay for this? They have $1.2M dollars and do very little with it to support the university or students.
ReplyDeleteI am sure Dedra will chime in and say they give scholarships---$22,000 when you have a $1.2M budget? That's peanuts.
Also, BOT members could each contribute $1000 or less for this? How about FAMUans who are in business in Tallahassee---lawyers, realtors, physicians and others. They could use it as an advertising tool for their business as well as a FAMU meet and greet. There could be a plague with all the sponsors names on it and a table where they could provide business cards/literature. The rest of the space could continue to be devoted to the university. Highlighting FAMU graduates and their success is a good recruitment tool for the university.
We could also rotate sponsorship of the room on a regular basis. The month that a given alumnus or business sponsors there could be a special display featuring that persons relationship to FAMU---Alumnus of the month.
I think we should keep the room. I suggest the alumni association and alumni office take over this project. Also, the two local alumni chapters should be able to handle this arrangement. Marion,Alan have your chapters and members step up to the plate.
Sounds good, 10:29. I'm not so sure, however, about the BOT members each contributing $1,000. That move would place the room into an ownership category and problems, I'm afraid, would arise somewhere down the road, even if guidelines, specs and criteria--all developed and agreed upon by the contributing members--were documented. I'm in favor of keeping the room in many of the other aspects which have been offered, and the NAA president, Dr. Alvin Bryant, needs to see that the room is not given up and he needs to begin a rectification of this horrendous deed by CVB.
ReplyDeleteIt's so ironic ...
ReplyDeleteThat of ALL the documents that RN has been able to unearth in the past ... THIS one never surfaced - until last week!
And - I'm not faulting you guys one bit ... Because HAD you guys been able to find out about this - maybe even as early as LAST month - we might have been able to jump on this matter PRONTO, and get the NAA, as well as other interested backers & sponsors, to pony up to keep this room.
To willingly give up being able to reach 2 MILLION PEOPLE coming through that city for less than $1,000 a month like that is downright foolish ... And to have deliberately kept an issue like this from the BOT - with ALL those many Meetings they have had since 2006 - without so much as a discussion about it should be grounds for immediate dismissal.
But - Nonetheless ... Those of you who "claim" to be SO wanting to get this room back so bad ... "It's Simply Time To PUT UP - Or SHUT UP!"
"It's Simply Time To PUT UP - Or SHUT UP!"
ReplyDelete5/06/2007 7:34 PM
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Anybody that believes the Tallahassee Airport has 2 million visitors a year needs their head examined. I know what Airport folks say, but just cause they said it don't make it true.
ReplyDeleteTallahassee Airport would be lucky to have 500,000 folks come through it.
Irreplaceable
ReplyDeleteDedicated to Castell & Co.
HMMMMM
To the left
To the left
Everything you own in the box to the left
It’s in the audit
That’s our stuff
If FAMU bought it
Please don’t touch
Keep talking that trash that’s fine
But could you board your broom at the same time
And it’s FAM’s name that’s on that Tag
So get to steppin you triflin’ Hag
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
we’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up Challis and see if she home
Oops I bet you thought that we didn’t know
What you think we are firin’ your ass for
Cause yall was untrue
Lyin and stealin and doin what you want to
So Casty drop off them keys
And hurry up before yo broomstick leave
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
We’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So you robbed FAMU of everything
But how about she’s still something
Though she’s nothing at all to you
But we won’t shed a tear for you
We won't lose a wink of sleep
Cause the truth of the matter is
Replacin you with James was so easy
HMMMMM
To the left
to the left
To the left
to the left
I like this comment (below) that was posted in the Tallahassee Democrat on Saturday in regards to Castell "Cruella" Bryant's decision to close the FAMU Airport Room...I agree that they take her and her buddies' salaries/bonuses and pay to re-open and keep the FAMU room open. Of course, there are bigger problems to focus on, but this was something that made us proud to see and others enjoyed it as well.
ReplyDeleteComment:
We all know whose fault this is and why this is happening. How in the world can a university, which pays such astronomical salaries to its administrators, be deficient in the rent on one room at the airport, a room, mind you, that only costs $11,000 per year? As I traveled through the airport on business, I was always so proud to see the FAMU Room, and I'm sure I speak for thousands of FAMU supporters and visitors who enjoyed seeing the very nicely appointed room. How difficult could it have been to write a check to cover the rent for one year? The Board of Trustees should have taken $11,000 of those "bonus" dollars from the interim president's paycheck and seen to it that the rent was covered at the airport. Eleven-thousand dollars is not a great deal of money, but I guess it is when you have a bunch of people who would rather reward their buddies with little snippets here & there. This simply makes no sense to me, and it is a rather egregious act of the part of the university's interim president.
Posted by: GirlSouthern on Sat May 05, 2007 11:37 am
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Irreplaceable
ReplyDeleteDedicated to Castell & Co.
HMMMMM
To the left
To the left
Everything you own in the box to the left
It’s in the audit
That’s our stuff
If FAMU bought it
Please don’t touch
Keep talking that trash that’s fine
But could you board your broom at the same time
And it’s FAM’s name that’s on that Tag
So get to steppin you triflin’ Hag
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
we’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up Challis and see if she home
Oops I bet you thought that we didn’t know
What you think we are firin’ your ass for
Cause yall was untrue
Lyin and stealin and doin what you want to
So Casty drop off them keys
And hurry up before yo broomstick leave
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
We’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So you robbed FAMU of everything
But how about she’s still something
Though she’s nothing at all to you
But we won’t shed a tear for you
We won't lose a wink of sleep
Cause the truth of the matter is
Replacin you with James was so easy
HMMMMM
To the left
to the left
To the left
to the left
Okay we get it. Please stop posting this multiple times.
ReplyDeleteTo 3:15 5/5/7
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere this morning that the lady did not win that law suit. They will appeal.
The City ought to donate the space!
ReplyDeleteWhy should the city donate the airport space? On what grounds should we expect a handout from the city in this regard? Part of "our" problem, sometime--not all the time, is the fact that we look for some kind of hook-up. I don't understand why the city should, all of a sudden, "donate" the space to us. We were getting the FAMU Room at a fraction of what they could probably get from a real vendor who wouldn't mind paying whatever price they asked. The airport is a money-making venture, so why should they just give us free space--because FAMUans fly out of (and into) their facility? Please, give me a break. And while you're giving me a break, give me some hard fact in terms of why airport management should give us something for nothing. Are you remotely aware of what airport spaces lease for these days? Surely, you don't htink that the airport was making any kind of money off the uiversity in the first place. What, pray tell, is $11,500? Facts, please, in support of your argument that the space ought to be "donated."
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteIrreplaceable
Dedicated to Castell & Co.
HMMMMM
To the left
To the left
Everything you own in the box to the left
It’s in the audit
That’s our stuff
If FAMU bought it
Please don’t touch
Keep talking that trash that’s fine
But could you board your broom at the same time
And it’s FAM’s name that’s on that Tag
So get to steppin you triflin’ Hag
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
we’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up Challis and see if she home
Oops I bet you thought that we didn’t know
What you think we are firin’ your ass for
Cause yall was untrue
Lyin and stealin and doin what you want to
So Casty drop off them keys
And hurry up before yo broomstick leave
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
We’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So you robbed FAMU of everything
But how about she’s still something
Though she’s nothing at all to you
But we won’t shed a tear for you
We won't lose a wink of sleep
Cause the truth of the matter is
Replacin you with James was so easy
HMMMMM
To the left
to the left
To the left
to the left
5/07/2007 10:52 AM
*sticking my tongue out* This is some funny stuff. ^5 to the author!
Go to the link below and follow the lyrics. Make sure you are at home or your office door is closed. FTFO!
ReplyDeleteClick on Beyonce'
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=3URfWTEPmtE
Great job -- 5/06/2007 11:28 PM
Irreplaceable
Dedicated to Castell & Co.
HMMMMM
To the left
To the left
Everything you own in the box to the left
It’s in the audit
That’s our stuff
If FAMU bought it
Please don’t touch
Keep talking that trash that’s fine
But could you board your broom at the same time
And it’s FAM’s name that’s on that Tag
So get to steppin you triflin’ Hag
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
we’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So go ahead and get gone
Call up Challis and see if she home
Oops I bet you thought that we didn’t know
What you think we are firin’ your ass for
Cause yall was untrue
Lyin and stealin and doin what you want to
So Casty drop off them keys
And hurry up before yo broomstick leave
Standing up in Lee Hall
Tellin us how we just a fool
Talking bout –
We’ll never ever ever find a Prez like you
You got us twisted
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We can have another Prez in a minute
Matter a fact he’ll be here in minute
Casty
You must not know bout FAM
You must not know bout FAM
We will have another Prez by tomorrow
So don’t you ever for a second get to thinkin
You’re irreplaceable
So you robbed FAMU of everything
But how about she’s still something
Though she’s nothing at all to you
But we won’t shed a tear for you
We won't lose a wink of sleep
Cause the truth of the matter is
Replacin you with James was so easy
HMMMMM
To the left
to the left
To the left
to the left
5/06/2007 11:28 PM
LOL...that's some funny ish...haha!! I love the altered lyrics...J. Anthony Brown couldn't have done a better job...HAHAHAHA! Good one!
ReplyDeleteThe BOT members would donate $1000 to the FAMU Foundation restricted monies to pay for the room. The monies would then be considered a donation andnot ownership.
ReplyDeleteDedra, How come you did not publish the article about losing YOUR lawsuit against the university? You always wanted to talk supposedly about the hundreds of lawsuits, why not discuss the outcome here?
ReplyDeleteDedra lost her lawsuit. HaHa Ha!!! Why not write about that? It is FAMU news, you know...