welcome back to our special primary
coverage the issue of school safety is a
hot topic in Broward County where voters
are deciding if tax payers should pony
up let's look at the results right now
here are the voters who and what they
decided 64% to 36% deciding
overwhelmingly for better pay as well as
school safety with that new referendum
and the parkland shooting massacre has
no doubt pushed Broward schools right
into the spotlight at a particular
funding for school safety so well
superintendent Robert Runcie got a boost
in his budget local 10 News reporter -
ruff when a live down from the Broward
County school board where the Broward
teachers union held an election night
watch party tonight in they have to be
pretty happy with the results Terrel
well things are actually winding down
here at the headquarters for the Broward
teachers union tonight but the folks who
did gather here inside of this building
they left on a high note because that
crucial referendum was given the green
light by voters let's take you inside of
the building where an enthusiastic crowd
of teachers and other members of the
union they killed a watch party as the
results came in they were monitoring all
of the races but especially the school
board seats and the question about that
half mil property tax increase since it
passed 93 million dollars a year
excuse me will go towards the Broward
School District the biggest chunk will
go towards teacher pay raises that will
help in recruiting new teachers and of
course keeping the qualified teachers
that are already in place according to
the Broward teachers union now the Union
argues that teachers in Broward County
are vastly underpaid the rest of that
money will go towards you know hiring
more school resource officers and also
mental health professionals in schools
the salary was a piece that was you know
kind of pushing back on the competitors
but as in you know greatness of Broward
County public
and you know conditions and and how
we're you know taking care of and we
love our students and we want to be here
that peace was there now the salary was
just going to lock it in and that word
from the president of the Brower
Teachers Union who was very excited
about this she was watching this one
very closely now this extra money is
annually so only for the next four years
so down the road voters would have to
prove approve another referendum also
there has been no comment tonight from
Broward School Superintendent Robert
Runcie he was not a in attendance here
so we're still waiting to get his
reaction when that comes in that is the
latest here live in Tamarac I'm Terrell
phone a local 10 News sir Ralph thank
you to parkland parents ran for school
aboard Lorri al-hadith whose daughter
Alyssa was killed in the massacre in
parkland wince district 4 here and
winning it pretty easily 65 percent to
18 percent for her opponents and these
political newcomers were vying to
replace Abby Friedman who chose not to
seek reelection alidev is a former
physical education teacher in New Jersey
she's made it a point to hold
superintendent Robert Runcie accountable
for the parkland Massacre where she lost
her daughter and she plans to focus
extremely on school safety and local 10
News reporter Ian Margo spoke with her
tonight and he joins us live now with
much more from Tamara
yeah this race really wasn't even very
close lori alidev ended up winning with
a large majority a large percentage of
those votes and she's really looking
forward to using this new position to
make a lot of changes here in the
district take a look at this video we
were at her watch party in parkland
earlier this evening it was very calm
there but overall mood definitely very
positive as well she ran on a campaign
about safety of course but also spoke a
lot about transparency and taking
ownership for issues in the district and
then moving forward to make changes and
make fixes to those issues and she says
she thinks her daughter Alyssa will be
really proud of her victory in order for
me to make
to make sure it happens I need to have a
seat at the table and have a vote and
and I'm so excited to have one to be a
next school board member to be able to
make sure what happened to my daughter
doesn't happen to any other children and
that we make our school safe in order
for our children receive a quality
education and she also spoke to us about
superintendent Robert Runcie she says
that her new position will give her an
inside look to see if he is still fit to
be leading the district she says if he
is not she will be pushing to have a
vote to replace him you're live in
Tamarac Ian Marvel local 10 News okay
thanks a lot Ian and in district 8
Stoneman Douglas parent Ryan petty
father a 14 year old Elena was hoping to
make a difference his opponents included
a 19 year old Elijah Manley but he did
lose to incumbent Donna corn 50% to 31%
local 10 News reporter chanise Fernandez
is live now from Petty's camp with
reaction there
Jenice well Calvin and Laurie Ryan petit
and his supporters were really hoping
that this would be a runoff election but
it looks like incumbent Donna corn is
keeping her district 8 seat and really
by the slimmest of margins as well but
we got a chance to speak with petit
tonight and he says he's proud of the
campaign that he's run and Laurie and
Calvin when you think about a school
board race it's hard to imagine one
becoming political and even heated but
that is exactly what happened in this
district 8 seat we know that ryan petty
he is the father of elena petit who died
during the Stoneman Douglas massacre and
school safety of course was his priority
his number one priority it was really
big on his platform and earlier this
month
Donna coordinates some comments during a
school board meeting saying that this
was an amazing year for Broward County
Schools and that was something that
Petty's took issue with as well as some
other Parkland parents as well Fetty of
course had his own controversy when it
came to some tweets that he posted back
in 2008 that were a bit contentious and
also a bit of racist in some ways but he
has since apologized for those streets
so bottom line this was a heated race
but it looks like that corn is going to
hold on to her seat petit telling us
that the fight is not over the
100% worth it because we've made school
safety and security a topic that the
board has to deal with at this point so
the the voters of Broward County
want school safety to be at the top of
the priority list for the school
district so we've we forced them to deal
with this topic they haven't done it the
past eight years they did nothing for
four years now they're gonna have to
address it and petty also telling us
that he's happy for his friend Laurie
alhadeff who will be on the school board
now the two of them sort of were in this
together so he's happy to see that she
has a seat and of course petty really
stressing to us that even though he did
not win this district eight seat that he
will keep fighting he will keep holding
the school board accountable that's a
very latest reporting live in Tamarac
junice Fernandes local 10 News kudos to
all of these parents for having the
strength to run Jenice thank you by the
school board races tonight in Broward
County District one here and Murray and
Jim Silver Nell and a very tight race
here but it appears that anne-marie this
was a very nasty race by the way and
Maury 36% over Jim Silvernail at this
point 98 percent of the precincts
reporting 36 percent to Jim's 33 percent
and in Broward County as well here as
district 7 nor Rupert a clear winner
here and Laurie Levenson let me take
that back for district number 6 Laurie
Levenson over Richard Mendelsohn 56% to
his 44 percent and then we go to
district 7 let's bring you that now nor
Rupert taking that as you say Calvin 59%
to Mike Oh bells 31%