Assuming April Griffin follows through on her decision not to seek re-election to the Hillsborough County School Board, well, meetings just won't be the same.
Chances are they'll just be filled with boring reports, proclamations and routine business.
There won't be sideshows that often overshadowed the important, but skull-numbingly dull, 8-hour policy parades. Griffin frequently was the star of those shows, but no more.
Maybe.
After 12 years on the board covering three terms, Griffin announced recently that she had enough.
She told me she reached that decision while on vacation with her family, which is also where she decided four years ago to run again after first saying she wouldn't.
She says she means it this time.
It is way too soon to know what that means for the board and public-school policy, but it's fair to say a lot of fire will leave the building when she departs.
After all, Griffin was the one who told a Tampa Bay Times reporter that then--superintendent MaryEllen Elia was full of ... er, um ... yeah, that.
And Griffin has never backed down from going nose-to-nose with anyone with whom she disagreed. Lately, that list includes current board member Melissa Snively.
In a contentious open meeting, Griffin said Snively is partly behind the controversial Whistleblower page on Facebook. Posters on that page routinely blast Griffin and other board members and often paint them as (paraphrasing here) incompetent oafs at best.
We all value free speech and no place is it freer than on an internet chat board, but let's say it gets a little over the top on that site sometimes.
Snively hasn't confirmed her involvement but hasn't denied it either.
Cranky online posters are the least of the board's problems, though.
There is the continuing financial crunch in the district, which triggered which has soured relations with the teacher's union.
Lawmakers in Tallahassee keep diverting millions of public school dollars to for-profit charter schools while pointing fingers at the district for not managing its budget better.
Fights in some high schools are almost a daily occurrence. Recently at Wharton High, it took 37 sheriff's deputies to finally get a brawl at the school under control.
Bus transportation continues to be dicey, and it get worse if the Legislature passes a bill that would mandate service to students living within 1.5 miles of the school.
Hillsborough trimmed routes to save money, including eliminating so-called courtesy busing.
The county also continues to grow, meaning the student population : currently around 210,000 : will likely increase as well. That means more new buildings, up to 20 of them in the next 15 years.
Estimated cost: 50,595 so far : more than double the total of the other 10 candidates in all races combined.
It's too soon to know how all that plays out. But if there are fewer personality clashes and more dull meetings, it's probably not a bad thing.