The school board was presented with a proposal from Bill Moorhead asking for another $85,000 for rebranding the million dollar fiasco formerly known as the Century of Excellence Capital Campaign. Elaine Cappucci is livid and I am in complete agreement with her.
Founding chair of the Campaign, Larry Lebowitz is asking for his colleagues' full support of "Lebo Gives," which includes giving another $85,000 toward rebranding. It should be called, "Lebo Gives and Gives." Here is the link to the YTD May 2018 Financial Report.
Elaine will not support the rebranding, asking what is different than what they did before. The school board wants to throw more money toward the money pit. I can't believe that 1.) I agree with Elaine Cappucci, 2.) The school board is willing to throw away another $85,000, and 3.) All this was before a discussion about "The School Board will discuss the High school Resource Officer position proposed for the 2018-2019 school year."
Please take the time to, at least, watch the Lebo Gives and the SRO segments of the school board meeting. It starts at the 01:13:00 timestamp.The citizen comments, especially by news anchor Kristine Sorenson, shouldn't be missed.
Seriously THIS is what your talking about from the meeting? I would have thought you would be fighting for the support of the resource officer. Or now that you don't have kids in the district do you not care?
ReplyDeleteI'm appalled, I've been a long time supporter of you and this blog. I thought you supported all issues, but recently this blog has become super focused on attacking specific board members, the campaign (or whatever they are calling it now) and not the quality of the education. I understand that get that people are on fixed incomes, but people live here for the quality of the education. Those on fixed incomes do not want taxes to increase, and it now seems they don't even care how our educational system will suffer. The amount of positions that have not been filled over the years to keep the taxes down will affect our children. That's one (actually more) more adult that does not have an eye on students, walking around in the halls, in the throes of students.
This board clearly does not have our students best interest as a priority, they are more worried about taxes being raised. This is the board that you mostly supported, wanted, and now you are focusing on the wrong things.
very disappointing.
I hate education. I hate kids. I hate safety. You got me, 9:35 AM.
ReplyDeleteElaine