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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
Report Card On the Franklin Annual Meeting of the Electors
By Janet Evans
Friday, Aug 29 2008, 12:37 AM
I attended the Annual Meeting of the Electors, immediately after I attended the regular Board of Education meeting Wednesday night.
As far as the Regular Board of Education meeting, it was basically uneventful and seemed to be in fast forward…I suppose in anticipation of the Annual Meeting. The only item to report is the student enrollment. The current District Total is 4080. You can see the breakdown in .pdf format 2008-2009 FPS Enrollment.pdf.
The annual meeting was a real turn-off for me. First, School Board President Dave Szychlinski, after the preliminary introductions and motions got underway, spoke to the audience (the electors) as if we were a group of children, talking down to us, then the “plants” in the audience rattled off the motions and seconds so quickly in the beginning of the meeting that you couldn’t even think.
As far as John Neville’s assessment that the vote was unanimous? Well, officially it was, but just because there were Aye’s and no No’s or Abstentions, that doesn’t mean there were some of us in the audience who were fed up and were not about to participate in the fraud called the Annual Meeting of the Electors.
This, the meeting that Dave Szychlinski termed Grassroots Democracy In Action (pod cast).
If the Board wouldn’t be so worried that the levy wouldn’t pass and would forego the plants, and really let the electors run the meeting, maybe then, and only then, could the community believe that the Board of Education, who was elected by us, is doing the job they were elected to do.
"Can you take care of my plants?" (pod cast)
Mr. Jim Milzer, Director of Business Services and Assistant Superintendent gave the budget presentation (.pdf) to the electors which was followed by a re-education (pod cast) to the electors by the Board President as to what "cautionary" means after Jim Milzer has just gone over the items.
And here is one intelligent comment (pod cast) from a citizen concerned about the bussing issue in Franklin. Why is bussing given to all students, even those who live, as an example, 11 houses away from school? Mr. Milzer, who is a “soft talker,” really needs to break the bank on his huge salary increase and get himself a Mr. Microphone to hold when he speaks, has the answer - which our city really needs to address.
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Tanya Ruder did film the meetings, and the website has had this blurb up for the past month:
Franklin Public Schools Cable Channel 96 offers a variety of viewing opportunities. It is currently in the stages of being rebuilt to offer the best available information possible. There is currently some information available, but the newest information is scheduled to begin running in September, coinciding with the start of the school year.
For those of you who have had any issues with the cable channel not coming in, having squiggly lines or receiving only "fuzz" when it is on, please contact Time Warner Cable (TWC) for a service call at 1-800-627-2288. You can also send your name, address, phone number and issues to Tanya Ruder at rudert@franklin.k12.wi.us and she will work with the district's TWC representative for you. They will come and check on cables that may be loose in the area and trouble shoot the problem for you.
Welcome to another school year : )
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