GilfordGrok

I was asked if I would cut the first 7 minutes or so from the earlier video, so I have:

Posted by Skip at 12:11 PM | Permalink

"Do as I say, not as I do?"

All humor aside: I do wonder what the rule is that Scott Piddington could invoke that would allow the dias to have both food and water, and the taxpayers in the seats, not?

If you know, let us know...

Posted by Skip at 07:16 PM | Permalink

WELL!  You can certainly tell that the School Board isn't too happy with this one - it essentially is a Petition by the Citizens instructing the School Board to follow the will of the people as defined by their votes in 1998 to move to a management structure that did not require a Superintendent.

Right off the bat - bad form.  The Moderator, without giving the citizen behind the warrant a chance to speak, already 'colored" the discussion AND the media coverage by announcing that this was an advisory warrant.

In NO WAY was this written to be advisory - and nothing in its language gives an inclination to that, either.  This was simply a pre-emptive strike by the School Board to mitigate their complisence in not following the law in the time since the Citizens of Gilford voted.

But, what would you expect with this?

One thing is clear - the legal counsel for the School Board does not like being challenged by the riff-raff - it became increasingly clear that the more we brought up valid point, her tone radically changed.  Please note, that at one point when I spoke, her deflection when I challenged her to show us in the Plan where she was basing her assertions that she was right and we were wrong.

Or was it simply a case that was very obvious from this article:

Have they've lost it and can't find it?

Posted by Skip at 07:15 PM | Permalink

Article II defined the budget for the School District.  Barbara Aichinger took exception to the budget, which Dave Horvath correctly pointed out that current spending is around $18,000 per student (soon to be $19,000).  State average is around $12,000; national average is around $10,000.

Given the current economic climate, she felt that the budget was way too high and submitted an amendment to cut 10%.  Certainly, there were the more conservative folks that stood up in support (including myself - heck, I had tried to cut a million out during the Budget Season):

In the end, however, the motion to cut was defeated 81-19.  Simply put, I believe that those that benefit from the spending (am not talking just parents) showed up in larger force than those of the "defend the taxpayers".

Posted by Skip at 05:15 PM | Permalink