From: egillen476@aol.com [egillen476@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:28 PM
To: School Board Email list
Cc: Dr. Timothy Steinhauer; Cissy Bowman
Subject: Change order GC63-131
Elaine,
You say that you are being transparent and that everything is on the
website. Please send me a link to the posted Change Order GC63-131 to
Nello Construction for $150,000 for Winterization. As of 2:20 PM, the
agenda from Monday's meeting does not indicate such a change order.
Elaine Gillen
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From: Elaine Cappucci <ECappucci@mtlsd.net>
To: egillen476 <egillen476@aol.com>; School Board Email list
<SchoolBoardEmaillist@mtlsd.net>
Cc: Dr. Timothy Steinhauer <TSteinhauer@mtlsd.net>; Cissy Bowman
<CBowman@mtlsd.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 3:28 pm
Subject: RE: Change order GC63-131
Elaine,
I believe I was speaking about budget documents when I said everything
is on the website. The change order documents, like most other
contracts and documents of that type are not all posted on the website,
but are public and available for your review through a Right to Know
request.
The change order you reference was on the revised agenda at the regular
board meeting on Monday, June 17th. It was discussed and acted upon
publicly at that meeting and the meeting is being shown on the cable
channel.
For the Board,
Elaine Cappucci
President, Mt. Lebanon School Board
ecappucci@mtlsd.net
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From: egillen476 <egillen476@aol.com>
To: ECappucci <ECappucci@mtlsd.net>; SchoolBoardEmaillist <SchoolBoardEmaillist@mtlsd.net>
Cc: TSteinhauer <TSteinhauer@mtlsd.net>; CBowman <CBowman@mtlsd.net>; **********
Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 5:28 pm
Subject: RE: Change order GC63-131
Looks like you had a change of heart, Elaine. Thank you for finally posting the revised agenda. I am well aware of the fact that it was discussed at the meeting and acted upon publicly, but no notice was given to the public until David Huston brought it to the public's attention.
Elaine Gillen
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Here is the link to the School Board Meeting Agendas. It may say that the agenda was revised 06/17/13, but it wasn't posted until this afternoon, 06/20/13.
They just have to lie through their teeth, never admitting they have screwed up and done wrong! They've become pathological liars...
ReplyDeleteAll Mrs. Cappucci had to do was say,
ReplyDelete"Hey, sorry for the oversight, our website has now been updated and a copy of the updated agenda is attached."
They made a mistake by not posting the new agenda online. Simple as that. Admit it and move on.
Instead they give more fodder for the masses to go ballistic over.
They could not admit to a mistake, or simple oversight, if their mustard depended on it.
ReplyDeleteAnd why does one have to file a RTK to review documents? The school district is a joke.
ReplyDeleteBecause they run them by Solicitor Tom Peterson first. Here is a little known fact. The network provider for Mrs. Szalinski's computer is tuckerlaw.com. I LOVE Analytics.
ReplyDeleteElaine
Anyone ever heard of the word "transparency"? It's what you're supposed to do when you are spending public money...
ReplyDeleteBut we cut legal fees last year, right?
ReplyDeleteThen we spent $100,000 on a teacher grievance and the union spent $100,000 on a teacher grievance so the taxpayer is out $190,000.
1:34 they are being transparent!
ReplyDeleteHow many ways do you want them to tell you they don't give a sh*t what you think?
They couldn't be any more transparent.
"I believe I was speaking about budget documents when I said everything
ReplyDeleteis on the website. " Quote: Elaine Cappucci email to Elaine Gillen,
Oh ! Now you were talking about documents Mrs. Cuppacci. Paula tried to address the subject of missing documents the other night and you just argued with her and, once again, IGNORED the PUBLIC input you were asking for at budget time.
If you had listened to Dirk Taylor you could have saved $28,000,000 using PJ Dick's figures; that is almost the entire amount of the SECOND bond issue.
How many faces do you have Madam President?
Those long vertical windows showing on camera #1 of the athletic wing look odd.
ReplyDeleteIs that common practice to have the openings in the block look like they were gnawed out by a beaver or a sledge hammer?
Anyone out there with construction expertise that can chime in.
Seems to me this creates the potential for leaks and problems should the windows ever need replacement.
Wondering...
ReplyDeleteIf the school building is so all fired important in educating kids how is it that when ours is in such disarray with levels and stairways closed, construction distractions and commotion everywhere, that our ranking went up, kids are still performing at very high levels and our athletes are still winning!
Maybe the building isn't so frigid' important! Maybe we could have saved $50 million plus interest and refurbished the whole building like we're doing to B wing.
Then we could've used that money over years to hire and retain the brightest teachers, purchased the best training aides/material money can buy, instead of facing budget crisis every year.
No we just had to have a vomitorium!
Makes me want to puke.