Pat Drago exits Volusia County Schools school-building post

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Pat Drago — In this 2008 photo, Drago reports to the Volusia County School Board. After serving 21 years in Volusia County Schools, Pat Drago is retiring.

By Al Everson
BEACON STAFF WRITER

posted Apr 2, 2009 - 9:43:05am

The woman who supervised the Volusia School District's biggest capital expansion is retiring.

Pat Drago is leaving as the school system's executive director of facilities.

"Today's my last day," she said by cell phone on a bus in Tallahassee April 1. "This is my last official act."

Drago was part of a large contingent of local leaders and citizens traveling to the state Capitol to lobby lawmakers about funding for public education in a time of sharp declines in state and local revenues.

Drago served 21 years in Volusia County Schools. Asked what she considers her biggest memory and success in her career in guiding the construction of new schools and improving existing ones, Drago had a ready answer.

"Passage of the sales tax and construction of the program that was promised in the sales tax," she told The Beacon, referring to the 2001 referendum on a local-option half-cent sales tax for school construction. "That wasn't just my work, but I had a role in it."

Volusia County Schools' Community Information Director Nancy Wait said Drago's position will not be filled, but, rather, her duties will be divided between two other people in her department.

— al@beacononlinenews.com

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