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Hosts Fausto and Alina Gomez with Don Slesnick, founder of the GGG. Photo by Maritza Jacobson

Former School Board Chairman Gus Barrera receives award from Don Slesnick. Photo by Maritza Jacobson

Most of the new GGG officers installed at the reception: Vice Presidents Enrique Lopez & Evelyn Budde, President-elect Debbie Swain, Immediate Past President Jorge Alvarez, 2012 President Jeannett Slesnick, Treasurer Richard DeWitt. Photo by Maritza Jacobson

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Xavier Suarez with Andrew Suarez, executive director of Imagine Miami. Photo by Maritza Jacobson

Tim Anagnost with City Commissioner Ralph Cabrera. Photo by Maritza Jacobson

The Gables Good Government Committee recently hosted a reception at the home of Fausto and Alina Gomez to welcome its new officers and to present Outstanding Service Awards.

Gus Barrera (2005-2008 chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board) and Dr. Larry Feldman (2010-2012 vice chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board) received the awards in recognition of their effective leadership.

The awards also demonstrated the community’s appreciation of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s and the School Board’s adherence to the educational compact signed with the city about six years ago.

Because of that agreement, Coral Gables now enjoys important enhancements to public school opportunities for local students, such as a new international high school, a new pre-K through eighth-grade preparatory academy, a new classroom wing at Coral Gables High School, a rehabilitated historic administrative building and a new classroom building at Ponce Middle School.

New Gables Good Government President Jeannett Slesnick also introduced her executive board: President-elect Debbie Swain, Immediate Past President Jorge Alvarez, Vice Presidents Enrique Lopez and Evelyn Budde, Treasurer Richard DeWitt, and Secretary Gay Bondurant.

For more information, contact Mrs. Slesnick at [email protected].