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While there may be blog posts of interest between now and then, we want to call your attention to the board meeting that will take place on Tuesday, June 1st, which will likely include several topics of serious concern. It will be unclear what will be discussed until the Friday afternoon preceding the meeting, since that's when the agenda is normally available on the district's web site. Between now an then the district will re receiving a financial update from the state, which will bear directly upon layoffs, etc. Also, it is likely that there will be a revisiting of some of the 'per projects' of the superintendent and the board. It is of crucial importance that people attend the board meetings and stay until the end, since that's often when upcoming shockers are mentioned, such as the purchase of solar for all of the schools. (Again, we're all in favor of solar, but maybe not right at this financial moment in time.)
So please consider attending, or at least reading the agenda ahead of time to see if you think any of the topics to be discussed are of interest and importance to you and you, your students, and the community. The agenda will be available on the district's website: http://eusd.net/about/board/agendas.asp
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You folks, whoever you are, are doing a great job - keep it up.
ReplyDeleteIt is really difficult for many of us to attend these board meetings - obviously! we have little kids to look after at that time of day. If Encinitas district won't video the meetings and post them - can you? Just put them on you tube where we can all see them.
Send this blog as far and wide as you can. Most parents are inundated with personal crisis( the economy) but this trumps that. If you are reading this send it out to everyone you know. Don't you want to be informed about these people are spending money and influencing our children's education?
ReplyDeleteBeing familiar with Sequoia Solar, most likely what is happening here is the school district is paying through the nose, but Sequoia has amortized it over 30 years; as one would with a mortgage.
ReplyDeleteIt'll mean a zillion dollars for Sequoia Solar up front, and not much for the school district for many years, because one thing parents can be sure of, the EUSD school district will not keep maintenance up on the Sequoia equipment; just ask any parent who has chipped in blood, sweat and tears for new ball fields, new drainage, new playground equipment over the last twenty years these 'stewards' of education have been mismanaging this low-wealth school district.
This is a feel-good move, by a 'green' group of trustees who never met a travel voucher they didn't like and act like rock-stars on the EUSD campuses.
Truly disgraceful behavior by a group of trustees that bend over backwards to keep parents from really being informed.
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If the Trustees want to build a private preschool so bad, they should spend their own money, not the taxpayers.
Spending $7K on a telephone survey to ask voters if they are dumb enough to bankroll the construction of a private preschool to be built with public money to then compete against private preschool owners and directors that actually know what they are doing is a gross miscarriage of the EUSD trustee's primary goal; educating the local children from K thru 6.
That $7K could have gone towards paying for counseling, the arts, music or literally, paper and pencils. Shame on these trustees.
Televised Board Meetings: I would like to see the board meetings televised like other school board meetings are so that more parents can see what is occurring at the board level. There are public access channels through the cable companies and the board should consider this as a way to reach more parents.
ReplyDeleteOn a different subject, we should have term limits for our board members to ensure that the representation of our district remains current and dynamic.
I agree with the televised board meetings. In this day and age, why aren't the meetings televised through cable? This would help increase accountability by the board members. The board room could easily be set up to do this but then again, that might require that our expensive tech group actually do something....
ReplyDeleteRe: June Board Meeting - They should put the superintendent's spending spree on the agenda. In this time of financial crisis for the district, there should be a policy passed that restricts spending to items that require immediate attention (e.g. repairs, purchase of curriculum products for next year, etc.) and disallow expenditures for non-emergency or school based items (e.g. solar panels, surveys, etc.). To use our limited funding for those items at this time is outrageous.
ReplyDeleteWill someone please video the meeting. Like amny people I cant go but realy want to see what fuss is about.
ReplyDeleteWhere is it written that they want to open a "private pre-school"??? This is unclear to me where this intention is spelled out.
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