Remember that welcoming FAMU lounge at the Tallahassee Municipal Airport that greeted tens of thousands of visitors to the Florida Capital each year? Well, it's no more. Yesterday, interim president Castell Bryant ordered the place emptied, even the throw rugs were taken. It seems Mrs. Bryant felt that FAMU no longer needed the space and it wasn't worthwhile.
We're not sure what the problem was, the furniture in FAMU welcome room was donated by Badcock. We were told by airport workers that the space may now become an FSU welcome room.
Interestingly enough, the Tallahassee Airport is managed by Provost Debra Austin's husband Ken.
Dang! Just how mad is Castell? What is the real scoop on why this happened? How much did such a thing cost, contract-wise? So folks who come to the city will not be greeted by the Orange and the Green? That's cold-bloodied. But seriously, what's going on with that and why did it happen? Was having a FAMU lounge out there bad publicity for the airport or what? I'm sure the reasons, according to CVB, are sinister.
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy. She is one vindictive, evil woman. Those of you who work for her better lay low.
ReplyDeleteThis he she is not crazy,he she's mentally ill it need to be taken out in the wood shed with cooking oil poured all over her and burn the hell out of it, this thing has more hell in it than the devil himself.
ReplyDeleteMan, I haven't flown out of Tallahasse in awhile now and it made me proud seeing the beautiful orange and green FAMU set-up whenever I flew out of the Tallahassee Airport. I'm almost certain FSU will jump on this ASAP. Castell you are what you are. And what that may be can't be posted on this website.
ReplyDeleteYou know the first thing that New BOT needs to do is limit the power of a interm President cause this is crazy how can someone temporary have this much power to do this much to a school in such a short period of time and not even be permanent to even see it thru. We need of have a investigation for her and TK cause some thing very foul going on between those two. All I keep seeing is giving to FSU everything she can give, what payoff is she getting. As for FSU damn can't ya come up with your on original ideal once in your life..
ReplyDeleteThe bitch done lost her mind! The BOT needs to order her to have it restored AT ONCE!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease contact Provost Debra Austin's husband Ken Austin. He played a major role in taking away the FAMU Welcome Room.
ReplyDeleteKenneth Austin, Director of Tallahassee Regional Airport, 3300 Capital Circle SW, Ste 1 Tallahassee, FL 32310-8700, Phone: (850) 891-7800 Fax: (850) 891-7837 Email: austink@talgov.com
Well, I guess if SOMEONE planned to destroy FAMU there was no need to welcome anyone. After all, who needs to come to an institution that won't be in existence?
ReplyDeletewhat ought to be in that room .... just as it is now ... with the grate locked in the closed position .... is CASTELL
ReplyDeleteYou gotta admit, that is so
ReplyDeleteT-R-I-F-L-I-N-G, it's funny! We should probably expect Lee Hall to go up in flames sometime tonight. Then, bulldozers will be ordered in to rip the eternal flame out of the ground.
Go 'head Castell, withcho bad self!
I can't wait to sit down and have a drink with my new best friend.
Hell hath no fury like Castell scorned
Castell is a disgrace to the FAMU family. If I hired someone that caused that much damage to my company, I would've been fired on the spot!!
ReplyDeleteEVERY BOT TRUSTEE THAT VOTED FOR AND SUPPORTED CASTELL FOR INTERIM PRESIDENT NEED TO RESIGN OR BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY!!!!
RN, can you give us some solid information on why this happened? I'm sure that CVB didn't simply have the FAMU Room evacuated becuase she's "angry" or any silly thing like that or simply because she wanted to continue to throw her weight around since she's under the gun. What really happened? Was this a BOT decision? Did she simply operate on her own in terms of the decision to have the room shut down? Who gave her permission to do this? I know that the provost's husband is director of the airport, but what, if any did either of them, Debra Austin and/or Ken, play in the termination of the Famu Room?
ReplyDeleteHere's more info. We learned this afternoon that contract has conme up for renewal, and Castell didn't want to renew it. The City was letting us have the space for minimal cost and after FAMU folks have been blowing up the airports phone lines. They are willing to let us still have the space.
ReplyDeleteNo this wasnt a BOT decision. In fact, we understand that CVB isn't even returning Board members calls.
Keep up the good work Rattlers. Now lets pay for the room and make it special. Interactive and informative for middle schoolers as well as recruiters and visitors.
ReplyDeleteYall making me use up all my dang daytime minutes! LOL
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have no information, I am sure this was a gift to Debra Austin's husband. I have not been in the Tallahassee Airport in a decade, but I remember the FAMU Welcome area being in a Large area in Prime real estate in the airport. If we were paying minimal cost, I am sure he wanted to lease the space out to a vendor to generate more revenue.
ReplyDeleteRN, this is 2:19, again. One last question: what was it costing us to maintain the space if the city was letting us have it for minimal dollars? I mean, surely whatever these minimal costs were was something that CVB could even live with (and the FAMU budget could withstand). So I'm thinking that if and when CVB comes back into Tallahassee (for whatever reason) via the airport, she simply doesn't want to be greeted or see the likes of anything remotely associated with the university that, as she is so likely to claim once she's departed, treated her so badly. How much could the FAMU Room cost for it to be relegated to the dustbin of memories? Thanks for the previous repsonse to my earlier concerns. I love RN.
ReplyDeleteTicket prices are up and traffic is down at the Tallahassee Airport since AirTran left town two years ago.
ReplyDeleteSo that can't be it.
da rattler said...
ReplyDeleteYall making me use up all my dang daytime minutes! LOL
5/01/2007 2:50 PM
We appreciate you RN/Da Rattler *big hugs*
Anonymous said...3:24 PM
ReplyDelete"So I'm thinking that if and when CVB comes back into Tallahassee (for whatever reason) via the airport, she simply doesn't want to be greeted or see the likes of anything remotely associated with the university that, as she is so likely to claim once she's departed, treated her so badly."
anon 3:24 PM .. That problem can quite easily be solved. Castell can purchase a Greyhound Bus Pass with the "performance bonus" received , thereby avoiding the airport entirely. It should be ONE WAY FROM TALLY, further insuring the possibility of the two ever meeting again.
RN as someone who has raised funds for the University and donates money yearly, could you please post some numbers for the space of the room and find out if we can install some flat screens and also internet accsess for a bussiness center in the space? If at all possible can this be placed on the main page and not as a response so that all who come onto the site will see it and we can start to coordinate the funds? Please and thank you!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy all the comments but I am about the action of moving FAMU forward and I know many of the readers of this site are as well and we can only move forward by talking with our money!
And when I say numbers I am talking money/cost....thank You
ReplyDeleteHow much longer until she is gone????
ReplyDeleteTallahassee airport is trash anyway most people don't want to fly out of their cause it cost to damn much. I hear Panama City building a international airport .. let put a welcome room there :) ...
ReplyDeleteIt's time to step up Rattlers. Its time to get thru what we're going thru!
ReplyDeleteLet's put our money where our mouth is I'm ready are you? WE NEED TO DO THIS NOW!!!!!!!
Don't let CVB win.
PS. I'm calling Tom Joyner on this one.
castell has indeed been asked to resign but has refused, although an official appeal/request for her to do so was delivered to her via ol' cussing lizzie Mac. cvb refuses to do so, exercising the language in her contract that says she can give the board sixty days notice and then go on about her sorry-assed business. well, of course, the 60-day notice deal will be july 1st. james ammons spends weekends here and he will report to the university in a "consultant" capacity beginning june 1st. his presidency begins, as we all know, on july 1st. castell is an idiot, arrogant and just plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteHas Liz McBride started her taxi service yet? Time for her ass to go, too!
ReplyDeleteI know Ken Austin personally. He loves FAMU. We play golf together and he is a straight-shooter and won just about every award imaginable as director of operations for the Tallahassee airport. He actually found a way to save the city money when George W. imposed all those 9-11 requirements on the airport.
ReplyDeleteKen NEVER had a problem with the FAMU room to this point, so ask yourself, "Why would he now." This wreaks of CAST-Hell crap! I GUARANTEE, when the smoke clears, it will not be Ken, but more of Castell's ignorance.
The latest is that W. George Allen is proposing that the University Commons be named the Castell V. Bryant Commons
ReplyDeleteGeorge Allen is an idiot. (A lot more can be said about this proposal of his, but there are so many flaws in the man's logic, until it easier to simply say that he has gone mad.)
ReplyDeleteIf Austin was smart and savvy, he'd land Southwest Airlines. Maybe the air strip of an airport would have some traffic. The city should write off the biggest room for being allowed to place that silly sign on campus, as if the city REALLY supports FAMU. Let alone have anyhting to do with the "Black Enterprise" distinction. The city needs to get the bus "system" together as well.
ReplyDeleteDid you all hear that poem he dedicated to her at the Black History Convocation? It was called "Speak the Truth to the People."
ReplyDeleteI gotta give it to them. They got each other's backs.
Irreplaceable
ReplyDeleteDedicated to Castell & Co.
By PJ & DST
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
8:47, WILL YOU JUST GIVE THE MFING SHIT UP? DAMN, WE GET IT. I bet you're an aggravating mf to be around.
ReplyDeleteTO: 5/07/2007 5:22 PM
ReplyDeleteCan't be no more aggravating than you are gonna after July 1.
i have no idea what that means.
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