Flasher costume may cost Florida schools director $44,000 pay cut

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An administrator who oversees purchasing for Broward schools could receive a demotion and a nearly $44,000 pay cut because she showed up for work on Halloween dressed as a flasher.

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Mary Coker, 46, currently makes $154,286 as the district’s director of procurement and warehousing services, a job she’s held since 2016. Superintendent Robert Runcie plans to ask the School Board on Tuesday to demote her to manager of materials and logistics, a job where the most she could be paid is $110,702.

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According to a district complaint, Coker showed up at both Lanier James Education Center, an alternative school, and an administrative office on Oakland Park Boulevard wearing a costume consisting of “only a black coat and hat, with a tight fabric underneath which replicated a naked female body.”

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During a brunch at the office, “Coker inappropriately ‘flashed’ children, staff, and colleagues ...” the complaint says. “Employees at the brunch were offended and some suggested that they could not tell if Coker was wearing a costume or was truly naked. After flashing the crowd of employees and seeing their reaction, Coker stated, ‘Hey everybody, relax, it is fake, please erase the pictures.’”

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