Well, let's just say there could have been a cat fight, if it had been taken outside....
And Sue Huhn would have won, even if she had been declawed!
I got home late tonight, so this is going to be short.
And basically, the meeting was uneventful, except for the two items I am going to tell you about, which are scandalous!
First, there was a Committee report regarding the meeting I attended on January 9th.
The Be Heard! report was given.
Sue Huhn began by speaking about the fact that we need to know where a building would go next time discussion of a new school being built was brought up.
The District doesn't own any land for a High School or Middle School (only for an elementary school).
Dr. Patz said we need to start looking 5, 10, 20 years down the road regarding land acquisition.
Continue investigations regarding land even though no referendum is in sight at this time.
Then, Mary Karolewicz piped up with her usual "We need to continue discussions with the community."
She talked about reports and forming focus groups.
Discussing options presented.
Alert the community that we want input.
What does the community see as future needs?
The community needs to have a part in it and a say about tax dollars.
She has talked to several other districts that have had success because they took their ideas to the community.
THIS IS WHEN "IT" HIT THE FAN......
Remember, we have been talking about the Be Heard! Committee Report (again).
That means we were hearing about community input about what went wrong with the referendum.
Remember?
This is when Sue Huhn.... Boldly announced "WE DID THAT!":
Let me repeat that....
Mary was going on, and on about how the District needs to get input from the community...
And Sue said: "WE DID THAT!"
You go girl!
Looks like Sue has been reading my blogs, because she then said "We can't be sweeping this under the carpet anymore."
The Board didn't listen!
As I was sitting there with a huge smile on my face.....
Mary came back (a look of disbelief and contempt on her face) with "You've only presented one story." (and she was upset)
Sue shot back with "Sometimes the community is not going to agree with us. We need to listen better!"
Well, I have to say, Jim Ward, was Darth Vader....and tonight, Sue Huhn was Wonder Woman!
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On another issue...
It seems those "Goals" that the Board put out there...the ones I blogged about....
Well, they mentioned they expect the Administration to follow "zero-based’ budgeting methods.
Trouble is.... they just announced that's impossible to do!
That's right!
Seems the Board didn't have a clue as to what zero-based budgeting was when they implemented this goal.
You can't do this type of budgeting in a school district. It just won't work.....
They might have a new plan ironed out by the next Board meeting.
Gee...I wonder how many of the other goals were carefully thought out.
We'll have to keep a close eye on these goals.
I'm going to go read the book Comedy of Errors now.
Goodnight!
