- February 11, 2026
Figuring out all of the roles that Amelia Fulmer fills as the director of the Flagler Auditorium/Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, was not an easy process, a Flagler Schools official said. Finding her replacement, he added, won’t be easy either.
At a Flagler School Board workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 10, district staff presented a red-lined version of a new job description for auditorium director. Fulmer is set to retire on July 31 after spending 38 years as a music specialist and educator with Flagler Schools, the last seven as the auditorium director.
“As we started collaborating together, capturing everything Ms. Fulmer has been doing, we saw there were a lot of things that were not listed,” Jeff Reaves, the district’s director of teaching and learning, said. “So we took the time to list it.”
The result is a job description that hardly resembles the previous one, starting with the title. “Director, Auditorium,” has been changed in the red-line version to “Director, Auditorium and K-12 Visual and Performing Arts.” Qualifications have been added. A section labeled “K-12 Visual & Performing Arts Support and Coordination,” and another on Auditorium Leadership & Operations,” have been added.
Flagler County voters approved a $2.6 million bond issue in 1988 to build the 1,000-seat auditorium on the campus of Flagler Palm Coast High School. It opened three years later. Its purpose is to serve both the community and Flagler County students. The director, therefore, has a role in booking professional acts as well as leading the educational aspects of the facility.
The auditorium governing board works with the director on the business side of the operation, and some of the marketing is outsourced, Fulmer said, adding, “but you do have to have someone with a little bit of a business mind to oversee all of that.”
Fulmer said the governing board is working toward changing the way they do bookings to using an agent that gets paid by the performers.
“We’re trying that for this year,” she said. “They've contracted her to go out and find all the acts. So hopefully that's something they can look at into the future as well. That takes a great deal of time.”
The board was receptive to the addition of the K-12 coordination section, which includes serving as the district’s primary support for visual and performing arts programs, supporting arts teachers through professional learning and program initiatives and assisting schools in identifying partnerships and grants.
“I really like the addition of the K-12 visual performance arts, because this past year, I know you've been really trying to get more involvement with the elementary and middle and high schools,” board member Lauren Ramirez said. “And then my only question with that would be, do you think that potentially in the future, this would have to turn into two roles, because that could be too much?”
Fulmer said the roles are interconnected through building relationships with community members and students.
All four board members praised the work Fulmer has done as auditorium director.
“Ms. Fulmer, your evolution of the program and stewardship and collaboration with us has been invaluable, and we're going to miss you,” Janie Ruddy said.
Reaves said Fulmer has provided the district with some links and information to do a strong national search.
But because it is such a unique position, Superintendent LaShakia Moore asked the board to go over the job description and vote on it at its next business meeting on Feb. 24, so the district can post immediately.
“If the board approves, any adjustments are made, then we’ll be ready to go through on Feb. 25,” she said.
