Some 230 people filled the reception hall at Brownsville Assembly of God Church tonight to hear from several elected officials and community leaders at a town hall meeting hosted by Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May.

At May’s invitation, Quint Studer, owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and businessman and philanthropist; Malcolm Thomas, superintendent of Escambia Schools; David Stafford, Supervisor of Elections; David Morgan, Escambia Sheriff; LuTimothy May, pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church; Ashton Hayward, Pensacola Mayor; Casey Rodgers, U.S. District Chief Judge; and Lonnie Wesley, pastor of Greater Little Rock Baptist Church took questions from the crowd.

Progress+Promise editor Shannon Nickinson served as co-moderator.

The majority of the questions focused on education issues, from the K-12 level up to workforce training opportunities. One of the hottest topics for Superintendent Thomas was around plans for the district, should the half-cent sales tax be renewed by voters in the fall, that would include building several new schools in the central, west and north and redistricting attendance zones.

If you missed the meeting, watch the PNJ’s livestream of it here:

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