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Since 2018, Coconut Creek has spotlighted students who make good decisions and positive choices through the Do The Right Thing Program. This exceptional program reinforces good behavior, recognizes noble citizenship, and honors community involvement.

Coconut Creek’s Do The Right Thing Awards Program is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors, operating under the auspices of the Coconut Creek Police Department. Sponsorship and donations help make the program possible and children benefit from the generosity of our sponsors. We always welcome new sponsors and interested businesses willing to provide gifts and services to Do the Right Thing Awards Program winners. Financial contributions are also greatly appreciated.


We are always looking for more people to volunteer and serve on our Executive Board. New members are needed who are creative and have ideas, time and energy to help the program grow and recognize more students for Doing The Right Thing.

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Butch Arenal

President

Chief Albert A. (Butch) Arenal served as a member of the Punta Gorda, Florida Police Department from 1986 to 2015,…

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Karen Matroni

Vice President

Karen E. Matroni has been in the commercial real estate field for the past 25 years. She started her career…

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CarolAnn Bown

Secretary

CarolAnn Bown is in her 30th year with the Coconut Creek Police Department. She started her career as a dispatcher…

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Jeannette Camacho

Police Legal Advisor

She began her career as an Assistant State Attorney in Orlando, Florida, in 1994. In 2000 she transferred to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, where she worked until 2011.

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Barb Hendrickx

Executive Director

Sergeant Barb Hendrickx started her career in law enforcement in 1989 in Naples, Florida when she was hired by the…

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Dr. Mark Bolhofner

Board Member

Mark and his wife Kathy are 1975 graduates of Coconut Creek high school. They have three adult children and four…

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Tracy Lautomne

Board Of Directors

Tracy Lautomne has be affiliated with the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek since 2020. Tracy works with the ....

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Judge John Fry

Board Member

Judge John Fry has been a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court since January 2011 where his County and…

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Nora Rupert

Board Member

Our District 7 School Board Member and past Chair, Mrs. Nora Rupert, is a former high school reading teacher, a…

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Steve Bonner

Board Member

Steve Bonner was named President of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa in November of 2018.

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Dr. Bree J. Miron

Board Member

Dr. Bree J. Miron is the principal at Coconut Creek Elementary in Broward County, Florida. She attended the ....

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Thomas Reid

Board Member

Mr. Thomas Reid has served the Florida Department of Corrections for over 26 years. He began his career as a…

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Scott Fiske

Vice President

Scott Fiske is principal of Coconut Creek High School in Broward County, Florida. He has a B.S in Civil Engineering…

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Do The Right Thing (DTRT) of Coconut Creek Program, is a community-based initiative which brings the City of Coconut Creek together with our community, local businesses, local schools, community organizations, city recreational centers, and most importantly, our youth.

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Butch Arenal
President

Chief Albert A. (Butch) Arenal served as a member of the Punta Gorda, Florida Police Department from 1986 to 2015, the last 8 years of which he served as Chief of Police. In his 28 year career with the department, he supervised all facets of the agency, to include service as the agency’s Accreditation Manager, coordinating the department’s effort to achieve its first State law enforcement accreditation award in 1998. During his service as Chief of Police, the agency achieved Florida Excelsior accredited status, the highest level of accreditation excellence in the State of Florida. The department was also selected as the 2013 Pinnacle Business of the Year by the more than 1,000 members of the City of Punta Gorda Chamber of Commerce. Retiring from the City of Punta Gorda in September 2015, Chief Arenal was selected as Chief of Police for the Coconut Creek Police Department in October of 2015.
Chief Arenal holds an Associate in Arts degree from Edison State College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Hodges University where he was graduated with honors and was designated by faculty as the Management Student of the Year. He is also a 1998 graduate of the 193rd Session of the FBI National Academy. Chief Arenal has served as Chair of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Region 10 Training Council, and he currently serves as Chair of the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute (FCJEI) Policy Board. He served three consecutive terms as President of the Southwest Florida Police Chiefs Association (2010-2012), where he was voted the 2013 Outstanding Law Enforcement Chief Executive of the Year by the Association. Chief Arenal served as President of the Florida Police Chiefs Association in 2016/2017, the third largest association of its kind in the country. In 2018, he was honored as Florida’s Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year by the association.
Chief Arenal is an ardent supporter of law enforcement accreditation and he served as a Commissioner for the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation, Inc. (CFA) for three consecutive two year terms from 2009 to 2014. He was elected as Commission Vice-Chair in 2010 and Chair in 2011. He also served as an assessor, team leader, and instructor for the Commission for more than 10 years. Chief Arenal was the 2005 recipient of the Commission’s prestigious Sheriff Neil J. Perry Service Award recognizing top performance in the field of Florida law enforcement accreditation and commitment to the law enforcement profession. Additionally, he served as Second Vice President (2001-2003) and President (2003-2005) for the Florida Police Accreditation Coalition, Inc.; an organization of more than 200 Florida criminal justice agencies united in pursuit and maintenance of accredited status
Chief Arenal and his wife Barbara currently live in Parkland, Florida where he serves in his most important capacity; husband and father to their 14-year-old son, Connor.

Karen Matroni
Vice President

Karen E. Matroni has been in the commercial real estate field since 1995. She started her career in central Florida with Prime Site Realty, a shopping center development, leasing and property management company, working her way up to Vice President of Property Management. During this time, she was one of the youngest people to earn her Certified Shopping Center Manager designation. When the owners sold their portfolio, she went to work for another shopping center owner, Tricon Development, as their head of property management and leasing.

Looking for new challenges, Ms. Matroni relocated to south Florida where she worked for a variety of shopping center owners. She settled down with the largest property management firm in Palm Beach County, NAI Merin Hunter Codman, where she was Senior Property Manager for a 700,000 square foot portfolio of shopping centers and office buildings. When the opportunity to step into the General Manager position with the Promenade at Coconut Creek presented itself, she welcomed the chance to oversee this luxury outdoor mall and help it to maintain its place as the premier shopping destination in Coconut Creek, Florida.

Ms. Matroni is an alumnus of the University of Florida and the University of Notre Dame. She feels that giving back to the community is an integral part of enhancing the businesses and residents of south Florida.

CarolAnn Bown
Secretary

CarolAnn Bown is in her 32nd year with the Coconut Creek Police Department. She started her career as a dispatcher for CCPD in July 1990. After three months, she was promoted to Public Safety Aide III and worked for the Support and Administrative Services Bureau Commander handling payroll and purchasing. Just over one year later, in 1991, she was promoted to Secretary III as the assistant to the Chief of Police—a position she has held since. Prior to her career with CCPD, CarolAnn had a variety of work experiences from the law offices of Geller and Geller, to the Broward County Clerk’s Office, to the United States Army.

CarolAnn fell in love with Do The Right Thing of Coconut Creek the very first ceremony she attended. She loves the recognition the students receive for doing exceptional deeds. CarolAnn is excited to be involved with our DTRT program and looks forward to watching the program grow.

Jeannette Camacho
Police Legal Advisor

Jeannette Camacho has been an Attorney for the past 30 years.

She began her career as an Assistant State Attorney in Orlando, Florida, in 1994. In 2000 she transferred to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, where she worked until 2011.

In 2011, she was hired by the City of Coconut Creek as the first Police Legal Advisor for the Coconut Creek Police Department.

Barb Hendrickx
Executive Director

Sergeant Barb Hendrickx became a police officer for the City of Coconut Creek Police Department in January 2013. During her first five years as an officer, she was the bike patrol officer representative on her team as well as a Field Training Officer. In March 2018, Barb was transferred into the Criminal Investigations Division as a Detective. In August 2018, Barb was promoted to the Sergeant over the Community Services Unit.
Barb currently is a member of the Crisis Negotiation Team, the department’s Recruitment Team, and proudly serves as one of the founding members and is an instructor for the Self-defense Awareness & Familiarization Exchange program.

In July 2019, Barb was first voted in by the Do The Right Thing of Coconut Creek Board of Directors as the new Executive Director of the program. She was re-elected by the board in July 2022 to remain the Executive Director.

Barb attended Florida Atlantic University and studied Political Science. After earning her Bachelor’s Degree, Barb worked in the public sector in various executive management positions including Regional Loss Prevention Manager and District Operations Manager.

Dr. Mark Bolhofner
Board Member

Mark and his wife Kathy are 1975 graduates of Coconut Creek high school. They have three adult children and six grandchildren. Mark’s doctorate is from Westminster Theological Seminary, and he is the founding pastor of the North Creek Presbyterian Church (1992). The church hosts the North Creek Explorer 5K each December to raise support for the CCPD Explorer program, and is the 2019 and 2022 recipient of the CCPD Community Alliance Award

Tracy Lautomne
Board Of Directors

Tracy Lautomne has be affiliated with the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek since 2020. Tracy works with the marketing team and concentrates on Community involvement. Born in Philadelphia, and raised in Tamarac. I am a proud Cobra of Boyd Anderson High School located in Lauderdale Lakes, and went to college at the University of Florida. Past president of the Coral Springs Rotary, and on the Executive board for the Coral Springs Coconut Creek Chamber of Commerce. I am also on the board of directors for The Sawgrass Nature Center and Wildlife Rehabilitation. For fun, I can be found digging in the dirt on the weekends in my yard or the community garden in Coral Springs.

Judge John Fry
Board Members

Judge John Fry has been a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court since January 2011 where his County and Circuit Assignments include but are not limited to County Criminal Misdemeanors and Circuit Felonies ranging from Disorderly Conducts to 1st Degree Murder trials. Judge Fry earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami, School of Law. After graduating law school he was the Principal Attorney for his own law firm which practiced in Criminal and Labor Litigation until he became a judge in 2011.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Judge Fry worked for the Margate Police Department from January 1990 until January 2000. During his tenure with the police department he served in multiple capacities within the Agency and on County Wide Task Forces. He has extensive experience in Patrol, Neighborhood Policing, School Resource Officer, Multi-Agency Gang Task Force, and Structural and Neighborhood Policing and Security. Judge Fry had earned the rank of Sergeant during his time with Margate Police Department.
Judge Fry also is currently an Adjunct Professor at Broward College in the Para-Legal Program teaching Criminal Litigation, Civil Litigation, Debtor Creditor, and Introduction to Paralegal Studies, Immigration, Legal Writing / Drafting and Real Estate. He developed and implemented a hybrid lesson plan where he implements real issues raised in South Florida Courts. Judge Fry was awarded the Adjunct Professor of the year 2018.

Nora Rupert
Board Member

Our District 7 School Board Member and past Chair, Mrs. Nora Rupert, is a former high school reading teacher, a mom of three children, all of whom have attended public schools, and a tireless community and children’s advocate.
Mrs. Rupert was elected to the School Board of Broward County in 2010 to serve District 7. She was selected as Vice Chair for 2016-2017, and selected as Chair for 2017-18.
She has served, or is currently serving as the Broward County School Board representative on the National School Boards Association, on the Florida School Boards Association Board of Directors, as the state legislative liaison for the Broward School Board, and on the Youth Education and Scholarship Committees of the Broward League of Cities.

Steve Bonner
Board Member

Steve Bonner was named President of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa in November of 2018.
He is responsible for all operations and management of Tampa Bay’s largest entertainment complex, which includes one of the largest casinos in the nation, as ranked by the number of gaming positions.
Bonner arrived at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa after serving as General Manager and President of Seminole Casino Coconut Creek for 16 years. During that time, he was responsible for managing the evolution of what was a small gaming facility into a major South Florida casino, dining and entertainment destination, with nearly 2,000 slot machines, five restaurants and a 1,200-seat event center (The Pavilion) for concert and comedy performances.
Bonner has a knack for identifying creative casino publicity, marketing and promotional opportunities. He has three decades of gaming industry executive experience, including previous positions with Black Hawk Gaming & Development Company in Black Hawk, Colorado, and Hemmeter Enterprises in Denver, Colorado.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Dr. Bree J. Miron
Principal

Dr. Bree J. Miron is principal at Coconut Creek Elementary in Broward County, Florida.   She attended the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University and has a Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Dr. Miron comes from a family of educators and knew at a very young age that she wanted to be a teacher. She has been educating for over 25 years, with the last 17 as a School Administrator. 

Dr. Miron is a wife, and a mom to an 11-year-old boy.   When not at work, Dr. Miron can be found cultivating succulents and orchids and traveling the world.