Story on new HUSD superintendent
By Eric Kurhi
Saturday, November 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am in Hayward, Schools.
Quick heads up for those who don’t get the paper – here’s today’s story from a meeting I had with new Superintendent Donald Evans. He’s still settling in, but what would you have asked him? What are your gravest concerns? He says he wants to hear from everyone, so send him an email but also post it here for the sake of discussion.
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November 12th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Superintendent Evans certainly seems to be doing all the right things.
November 13th, 2011 at 9:14 am
I like his ideas about accessibility and transparency. In fact,I thought about contacting him. When I tried to get a contact address on the HUSD website, I couldn’t locate it. Is it there? How can he be contacted?
November 13th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Ms. BLAIR….and all.
EVANS MADE HIS FIRST MISTAKE WHEN HE RELEASED HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS TO THE REVFIEW. SEE TODAY’S ISSUE OF THE REVIEW… ‘lOCAL NEWS’, TOP OF THE PAGE.
I EXPECT HE WILL BE INUNDATTED WITH QUESTIONS. Booth and Moore wiill be kept busy … not with a continuous flow of leadinG questions but with hard and lengthy advice on what thet expect of the man.
Wiser heads will wait a while, at least ubtil the mid- year break, so that the Gentleman will have sufficient time to understand (identify) what he understands to be the strengths and weaknesses of staff, if in fact, weaknesses do exist.
BEWARE OF EXECUTUVES WHO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES WITHIN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THEIR HIRE ! HE HAS NOT then HAD TIME TO IDENTIFY THE PATHS BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE HARD PLACE… ASSUMING THAT SOME STAFF MEMBERS MIGHT BE CONSIDERED TO EXIST WITHIN THAT VEIN OF THOUGHT.
I SUGGEST ALL MIGHT ‘GIVE HIM SOME SPACE’ FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS.
MY GUESS IS THAT HE IS USING THE E-MAIL ADDRESS TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF COMMON CONCERN IN THE MINDS OF HUSD SUPPORTERS; IN WHICH CASE IT WOULD BE WELL TO CONSIDER YOUR E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS WITHOUT MAKING YOUR COMMUNICATIONS A SERIES OF ENDLESS COMPLAINT AGAINST INDIVIDUALS.
KEEP TO THE FACTS AS THEY ACTUALLY EXIST AND AVOID MAKING UNSUBSTANTIATED REMARKS. THIS ABOVE ALL… IDENTIFY YOUR SELF WITH YOUR GIVEN NAMES OR IN THE CASE OF WOMEN, THE SURNAME ADOPTED ON YOUR WEDDING DAY. OR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE DIVORCED AND RE-MARRIED… IDENTIFY THE CHILDREN’S SURNAMES,
CLASSES AND SCHOOLS WHICH THEY ATTEND.
Direct your concern to a single subject and be fairly certain of your facts, derived personally and not the rumor which was passed by some idiot trouble maker.
GOOD LUCK!
November 14th, 2011 at 10:29 am
All:
I share with all, the following which appeared, verbatim, in the All Saints Church Bulletin, this past weekend. The following is the announcement:
“As many of you are aware, the students who attend our public elementary schools and high schools are suffering. Standardized test scores continue to lag behind many similar school districts and the dropout rate is unacceptable. The future of these students seems bleak and any hope of college for many of them is out of their reach because the system is not working, as it should.
It is time for us as a Catholic Community to act so those things can improve. We need to get involved because at least 25% of the students in Hayward Public Schools are Catholic. We need to get involved because the system is not working as it should.
It is time for us as a Catholic Community to act so those things can improve. We need to get involved because at least because we have developed a Catholic educational system that is the envy of the country and we have answers and systems that can help. We need to ger involved because our future depends on it.
With this in mind All Saints and St. Clements have asked COR (Congregations Organizing for Renewal) to organize listening sessions in our parishes. The objectives of our listening sessions is to discover the needs of our families who have children in our public schools and to begin to figure out how we can be a positive influence. We are planning on holding our first listening session on November 20th at 10:15 am. Please join us.
Kyle adds this comment: Attend mass on Saturday evening or early Mass on Sunday. Recognze that the parking area fills up early prior to the 10:45 AM Mass on Sunday. This above all, participate in the discussions and do not just sit and listen.
Participate!
November 15th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Anyone who is going up to CSU East Bay to support the strike there on Nov. 17 beware of the following:
Visitors: Park in N lot.
Media (Guess your not visitors): Park in M lot.
And so it continues…
November 17th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Report from this hill:
Took son to his Calculus class today at Cal State, which is meeting because the prof lost time due to a health problem. Anyway, no problem going up to the campus on Harder. Offered a paper from a couple of picketers.
The student parking lots are almost empty. Usually there are pretty full at noon. Visiting the other side by Carlos Bee, there are plenty of strikers there, and they are stopping traffic by crossing back and forth through the crosswalks. It seems that most folks that are being impeded are either campus staff or those who live near the school. Overall, I think the students enjoy having the day off. Was this the goal?
Does complaining about the lack of a pay raise really come across as an effective message when many folks would be grateful just to have a job that pays what the teachers make?
The only way the schools are getting more money is if the state increases taxes (which are very high) or the state drops other programs, most of which are payouts.
At least earning a degree prepares students to take care of themselves. The state cannot afford to help everyone anymore. Which programs go?
Perhaps the care of children and the elderly need to rest with the families of these folks, who should be the responsible ones, shouldn’t they?
November 17th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Did anyone see or attend the 11/16 board meeting? I was alarmed by a concern raised by a radiologist regarding a cell phone tower that is to be built within several hundred meters of stonebrae elementary. According to research studies, this can increase the student’s cancer risk by four. I believe that most parents have not been informed about this development. Eric, do you have any info on this issue?
November 17th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I saw the meting…Mr. Armas seemed to indicate that the community lost its chance to appeal the tower when they did not go before the City Council. I don’t know about anybody else but that ordinance that says posting a notice within 300 feet of residences is sufficient is a joke! Unless you are the kind that reads material posted on telephone poles you would likely miss the informatin totally.
November 17th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
All
… and so Booth’s attack upon Mr. Armas re-commences.
Her beef is with City Council../… yet she will ignore that fact. as is her wont.
November 17th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
All,
…and so Mr. Kyle’s attack upon Mrs. Booth re-commences.
His beef is with Hayward Unified…/… yet he will ignore that fact, as is his wont.
November 17th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
I caught that, too, Kathy. I also agree that the required notice is insufficient, especially in this case, where most of the ‘noticing’ has taken place behind the Stonebrae gates. Who plops a cell phone tower right next to 700+ children? This makes no sense. I can’t believe it passed in the first place. Where is Erin Brocovich when you need her?
November 17th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
There is not much evidence that has any sort of consensus in the scientific communty on cell phone towers as a source of contamination. There is lots of evidence about cellphones and mircrowave ovens being a source of contamination.
There is much more evidence about lousy nutrition, high body mass index, poor sleep habits, well water contamination of heavy metals, second hand smoke and sexual abuse being issues that should be examined in HUSD.
Not that anyone really cares. These subjects are not often raised.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:19 am
Michael Moore;
Your contribution of Nov. 17th at # 12 above is seriously flawed. So seriously flawed that I would list you as one of the problems faced by HUSD.
In that instance you list the following; a.) lousy nutrition; b.) second hand smoke; c.) sexual abuse. You fail to list the numerous ‘offsite problems’ to which I address a few words at the latter part of this first of a series of intended critiques directed to your contribution # 12 above..
NUTRITION is largely an off campus problem. The food prepared and delivered to the campus cafeterias is prepared professionally by HUSD’s personnel in a structure at a former school in a residential neighborhood; it shares a portion of the site which was once the old Darwin school, now leased, to the detriment of the remainder of the site. My criticism of the lease to the Charter school on that site was that it reflected very real property management problems at HUSD. That last bit, in it’s turn, is what led to the recent report to the HUSD Trustees on the preliminary efforts to consider sale of some HUSD property. I assume that you watched that board meeting. Score one for Kyle’s critique of management practices that will lead to more beneficial money management. On this issue alone ( there are others), I would continue to support Mr.Armas’ re-election in the coming year. There are other issues which when revealed to your mindset, should convince you to ‘walk’ a bit more softly in your critiques of Mr. Armas as well as myself. Pray tell us about your contributions to our City’s well-being at that famous City Hall meeting where ‘all were glad’ that I had not attended. Of Course you have not attended many of that type meeting, while I have heard it all before during faithful, personal involvement at something like two dozen or more ‘Task Force’ or ‘ad hoc’ groups established by City and/or HUSD since my retirement in early 1991.
SECOND HAND SMOKE. Sir, are you able to recite the occasion or even an instance when smoking occurred in the classrooms or other assemblies? When or where, were children affected while on campus? I think, at least in this instance, that you get carried away, with your imagined short comings of HUSD
BODY MASS. Bingo! You have hit on something which ought be cured. However, it seems to me that HUSD has expressed concern about this problem, particularly when it leads directly to diabetes. The concern has gone as it possibly can when brought to attention of parents; which I am sure it has. Failing that solution placed upon parents in HUSD communications, what do you suggest? My best guess is that you are clueless!
LOUSY NUTRITION. Do you include the food service provided students at lunch time cafeterias?
My advice to you is to refrain from criticism of the food supplied to students by HUSD. You know nothing about the matter of which you speak if you are ‘zeroing in’ with cheap shots directed to HUSD
I intend to contribute another writing or two on the subjects about which you wail !
As can be seen above, the hour at which this submission occurred grows heavy on an old man who has spent nearly 52 years of his 81 count… observing fools here in Hayward! I’ll continue tomorrow night!
November 18th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Nutrition is a serious problem. This is not addressed as often in the school curriculum in all grades as it should be. It is not an off campus issue at all. Nutrition is underemphasized, both in the classroom and in the community. Nutrition is at least as important as math, science and language arts. Sample the school lunches and look at what kids eat and you will see what is wrong: lousy food.
Second Hand Smoke is a serious problem. This too is not addressed as often in the school curriculum in all grades as it should be. One contacts it everywhere, check out HHS just as an example. Teachers still smoke. Walk around the grounds and look at the butts. Litter yes and a serious health risk certainly. And it is just as bad at home.
Body Mass. Just look at the kids and their parents. Regular exercise is just as important as class room instruction. The schoolboard should emphasize this as well as the classroom instruction at all levels.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Mr.Kyle seems to think every time that I post something referring to Mr. Armas it is a criticism. In fact I was commenting on the fact that Mr. Armas explained to the gentleman and the public what the procedures were for appealing a decision of the planning commission. That explanation while disappointing for the Stonebrae community, it helps to understand the process folks must follow to have a say in whaat happens in our community.
Once again, poor Mr. Kyle can’t get out of his own hatred for me to see that there was no criticism of Mr. Armas at all. Simply an answer to the person who wanted to know if anybody had watched the BOE meeting.
November 18th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
NBooth;
I do not express hatrwed for you! My problem with you is your failure to recognize thee vbenom within your attacks uipon Mr. Armas whicxh began last August and is available for review in the Blog archives.
I predict that when tyhe School Board election campaigns begin in ywear 2012 that uyou will revert, once again, to a display of venomous attack which you used last year after his ‘appopintment to Replace Sarah G.
At7 that time I challenged you to to examine the difference between correct use of freedom of speach and licentious speach.
KMr. ArkmAs is an honorable man who admoitted that tghere had beena difference of op[inion as between you and hoimself when you were a member of the Personnel Commission.
Being an honorable man he refused further comment; a factor in the confidentialoity of Personnel Comkmissionj hearings ?
A fact over looked by you! I shall again take up the cudgel of the spoken word when, as expected, your poisonous scribbles re-appear, as is expected of your uncontrolled, bitter, attitude.
November 18th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Ms. Booth;
I have much to do on myplate at this moment in time.
Will follow your complaints closely after one of your not too long ago comments that you will be following matters cloosely in the upcomong HUSD elections.
Be on guard against your use,as in the the recent past, of licentious, unsubstantiated negative comments which hovwer like a dark cloud over your aging mind!
In short if you having nothing substantial to say, put your mind to other endeavors. Like stuffing envelopes for use by O’Bama’s campaign!
November 18th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Moore;
Your initial response to my first commentary on your #12 is weak.
For example, how do you bring the parents into the picture on the matter of nutrition; hell’s bells are clanging!g HUSD is sruggling with a humongus transience problem as well as a truancy prhblem.
Find a way to volunteer as an aide in solution to problems rather than continually re-hash the crap that hUSD has to contend with in it’s dealings with parents who are uneducated, underemployed, unaware of their risks seen when encountering FAILURE TO ACCEPT opportunbity to comply with SB 1317 ( ? CORRECT NUMBER OF THE BILL SPONSORED BY lENO?)
A TOUGHER ATTITUDE BY husd IS NEEDED! BEING NICE TO NEGLECTFUL PARENTS AIN’T GETTING THE JOB DONE WHEN ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF THE BUDGET. IF YOU AWARE OF THE TREMENDOUS NUMBERS OF PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS LIVING IN HUSD’S SERVICE AREA,YOU MIGHT THEN BECOME A BIT MORE PRO-ACTIVE IN THE BATTLE TO REGAIN MONIES LOST TO TRUANCY AND TRANSIENCE. ( I SUPPLIED KURHI WITH THAT DATA AND HE DID NOTHING WITH THE INFORMATION.)
Cigarette butts on HUSD CAMPUS. LINE THE KIDS UP AT PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS AND CONDUCT THE CIGARETTE BUTT HUNT AS U.S. ARMY DID AT FORT ORD AND AT FT.KNOX WHWENi PASSED THROUGH THOSE ‘RESORTS’…. YOU SOON LEARN TO EITHER FIELD STRIP YOUR CIGGY BUTTS OR HAUL TYHE CORK TIPS TO THE TRRASH CANS.
mY BET IS THAT TEACHERS WILL APPRECIATE NOT HAV9ING TO BREATH SECOND HAND SMOKE…. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE KIDS DO NOT UNBDERSTAND THAT PROBLEM.
iN SHORT Mt. Moore… become a bit more pro-active in your advice about matters at HUSD… follow it up wityh some noticeable volunbteer assistance… that act berings attention as well as soluttion to your complaints of both real and imagined problem issues raised by you!
November 18th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Once again I am not certain when or where Mr. Armas spoike regarding any interaction with me during my time on the Personnel Commisssion for the city. If he shared with you disagreements we may have had that is news to me. I believe it takes two to have a disagreement that would be reflected in some statement of “not getting along”. I guess I had better question him on this issue. You are such a pompus fool.
November 18th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Kathi, your account of Mr. Armas’s interaction with the gentleman from Stonebrae is accurate and neutral. I am baffled that John Kyle described your post as an attack.
November 18th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Thanks John.
November 18th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Booth; You foolish woman!
Armas revealed nothing about a disagreement. I therefor conclude tha the problem occurred within a petrsonnel commissiomn hearing which as you ought know is a confidential experience.
Again I suggest that you review your contributions to the blog… your first occurred in August… mand you were on the attack for reasons known only to yourself!
You allied your self with another female using thenom de plume “oBAMA NEW AGE” WHO STATED SOME PRETTY VILE STUFF. yOU SUPPORTEDTHAT AND URGED HER ON!
weHEN THAT HORRID PWERSON CAMEOFF THE WALL WITH A STATEMENT THAT i WAS STALKING HER DAUGHTER, YOU URGED HER TO ADVISE THE POLICE.
mRS. bOO6TH… I HOLD YOU, IN MY MIND, AS A
CONTEMPTUOUS PERSON UNWORTHY OF RESPEC6T , IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THE FACT THAT Y0U. AS A LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE, WHO STATED THAT YOU DID NOT ATTEMPT THE BAR EXAM… UNHWITTINGLY REVEALED THAT YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFREENCE BETWEEN FREEDOM OF SPDEACH AND LICENTUOS SPEACH
TEACHERMOMMA.Y0OU OUGHT LEARN WHAT MS.bOOTH IS LIKE!
rECALL THAT SHE WAS ADAMANT ABOUT FORMER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD RETURNING THE OVER PAYMENT IN STIPEND…. UNTIL I ADVISED HER OF THE AMOUNT THAT lARRY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO RETURN…. SHE DROPPED THE SUBJECT AS THOUGH IT WERE A HOT COAL.
bOOTH HAS AN ODD PERSONALOITY AND THE VENOM SHE SPEWED AQBOUT ARMAS IN HER CONTRIBUTIONS LAST YEAR HAVE CHARACTERIZED THE WOMAN IN A POOR LIGHT…..BEYOND REPAIR!
iN ADDITION, WHEN i PINNED YOU ON THE SUBJECT, YOU REFUSED RECOGNITION OR EXPRESSI9ON ON THE DUIFFERENCE BETWEEN FREEDOM OF SPEACH AND LICENTUOUS SPEACH.
iN A RECFENT BLOG SUBMISSION YOU STATED THAT YOU COULD HARDLY WAIT UNTIL THE 2012 husD ELECTI9ONHS. iN THE TIME BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, GO TO A RWEAL LAWYER AND GET ACQUAINTDED WITHTHE DUIFFERENJCE BEWTWEEN FREEDOM OF SPEACH AND LICENTUOS SPEACH….
November 19th, 2011 at 12:28 am
What went on at the School Board meeting with the IT contract? There seemed to be a dispute about this which held up something else. Did this get resolved?
Not a great start for the new guy.
How is the board going to cut 12 million for next school year? The “fun” is just beginning.
November 19th, 2011 at 7:22 am
All:
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Today’s story on Page 3 of the local section in the Review, really ‘t9icks me off’!
School board is considering Parcel tax…..
Now I ask why woulods any sane person vote for such a measure when Board of trustees takes sof6t a0pproach with parwents or guardians of truants? Truants are largely responsible for outr budget defuicit.
Senj. Leno passed a gbill in year 2009 which has penalties that include jail time for parents of truants. Trustees would rather talk nice to those neglectful parents rather than to resort to enforcement of the Law passed by the state under the leasderwship of Mr. Leno.Impose the penalties provided by law!
The budget deficit of $8,000,000 is approximately the same amount as the lost ada money caused by truancy !
What part of that administrative quagmire does the typical taxpayer fail to understand!
November 19th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Truancy is a problem, but it is not up to the school district to pursue legal action. It is up to the DA office and police, and that does not seem to happen.
So, other methods need to be used.
I believe the lack of attendance has to due with problems at home and the fact that school admin won’t admit that their schools are not safe. Bathrooms are danger zones, bullying is rampant, and the regimentation makes the school very uninteresting.
Looking at test scores, it seems that maybe half or more of each grade should be held back. It is time to stop using summer school to complete that which should have been done during the year.
The other issue is less students means the district is not pay the cost for those students that day. But the deficit is that the school keeps a place for these students and that costs. How about taking students who are absent over a certain point and moving them to a group classroom with a longer school day until they show they are ready to be placed in a regular classroom again.
November 19th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
The problem with a the bond issue is the District has no control or oversite in much of the construction of the new schools, meaning that there is no consistancy or standardization of the systems or fixtures installed, making it very inificeint for the District support staff to maintain the new sites because of the diversity. A parcel tax may be a better solution to standardize the construction of new sites with uniformity, lesson down time on repairs, and allow district oversite by qualified persons who normally perform repairs, and allow more input to the construction and materials and systems used.
District support staff and workers should be able to have input before the final work is done.
November 19th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
mr. Kyle,
I am growing tired of you references to my motives for demanding that the district bill for overpayments to board members. You have no knowledge of anything to do with my husband’s time on the board and speak as if you do.
I do not have to respond to your questions regarding my knowledge of definitions of words. If I were worried about anything I posted being open for any legal ramifications I wouldn’t post it.
The mere fact that you seem to imply that you and Mr. Armas had a discussion regarding anything to do with my service on the Personnel Commission leads me to believe that in fact Mr. Armas must have given you some insight. Meetings of the Personnell Commission are covered by the Brown Act and are therefore open to the public. I cannot remember any time when there was a need for a closed session of the Personnel Commission during my time of service, therefore no confidential information would have been disclosed by either Mr. Armas or myself. You are such a fool!!!!!!!
Qodrn,
As I understood the BOE meeting, the IT contract(s) were a bone of contention for Mr. Armas and Mr. Reynoso because they did not contain enough information regarding competing bids for the software; which by the way both gentlemen have been requesting for quite some time now. Their concerns seem to revolve around whether the district is seeking competitive bids…not whether the software is a necessary purchase, rather that the cost is the best deal.
November 19th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Watchdog;
Your analysis of the purposes of the bond issue is incorrect. First, Trustees are considering a parcel tax for purposes of balancing the budget which has a shortfall in an amount approximating the loss of ADA money lost to the truancy/transience problem.
More directly to your argument, you need to become more aware of how the money and school construction being acquired through the successful bond Measure a few years back is being spent on structures which lack the same appearance as was the case during the active re-construction of HUSD schools in early 1950’s.
The district does have control of the designs and materials use; the problem now occurring is due to the fact that some of our schools, such as the Fairview school are situated on hillsides which are affected by varying degrees of slope, on narrow streets having higher traffic counts than some experience when located on the flatlands.
Those schools built on the flatland areas west of Mission were quite similar in design. That is an advantage which needed abandonment when dealing with slopes upon the hills which are further affected but varying types of soil. The quarry area east of Mission offers opportunity to observe the blue soils which are in effect deteriorating rocks. Blue rocks ( IN SOME CIRCLES DESCRIBED AS SERPENTINE) dissolve in water or become partially dissolved to the point that it ‘greases’ soil mantles thus initiating land slides. Much property damage and even a young life was snuffed out in a sea of mud has a landslide crossed a street to crush a home under the weight of the mud.
The Fairview site imposed a design which required a multi-story construction. The specifications for plumbing fixture counts, their quality etc. are well considered and meet the requirements of the State’s demands for safety etc. Make no mistake about it, that school was more expensive then the rebuild of the schools on flatland Hayward which are single story affairs. Burbank School was rebuilt through the efforts of then City Manager Jesus Armas who co-ordinated that project through the City’s redevelopment agency, HARD and the developer’s contributions… all at no expense to HUSD. We are lucky to have that man on the Board of Trustees.In future, it may be necessary to tear away frokm cookie cutter designs, sucj as we saw constructed in the eraky 1950’s when yhousing developments were springing up as fast as we could pave over the cauliflower fields and tear out the Apricot orchars. Working on flatland with parcels at 10 acre sizes permitted use of cookie cutter designs. If in the end all our schools did not have identical designs I would say that would be an enhancement to Hayward’s appearance. Maintenance is less expensive when performed regularly rather than wait until emergencies arise as seems to be the case presently.
In my mind the most worrisome school is the Treeview School. I have alerted HUSD to it’s problem there.
November 19th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Booth;
Get some rest,ease up on the tone and purpose of your cheap shots! You have a school Board election ahead of you and we all know what that Booth;
Dear lady, you certainly have a way of twisting issues involved in comments by those who see through you and bring the twists up to a version meeting the demands of your emotions of the moment.
I have nothing further to say except that I am aware of when Larry was elected for his single term as a trustee. He was involved in the dismissal of a good man and led the party to Florida to vet the hire of Ms. Koal who was fired at some incredible cost to the
school district.
November 19th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Mr. Kyle
So you have 6 newly constructed schools, none of which are basic layed out with simular construction material, fixtures, and servicablity plans or coordination with the District’s Maintenance Dept. I see this as waste of taxpayer’s money as the system’ that make the schools work in a uniform fashion will be changed later and the existing “Cheap to Build” under the “Bond” equipment will be scraped, just as all the “New School” construction has replaced the modernization schools.
Fairview- modernized-new school
East ave-modernized- new school
Burbank-modernized-new school
Highland-modernized-new school @StoneBrae
Schaffer Park-modernized-new school
Tyrell-modernized- new school
These schools were all under the Leroy Green moderization and many of the existing systems and fixtures had to be changed due to
1. Parts or fixtures no longer or locally available.
2 Incompliance according to code
November 19th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
3.Poor installation by unqualified contracted work.
So how many times does the tax payers have to pay for blunders? The districts’s maintanance dept. is following up repairing the blunder’s of the contracted work.
, the contractor’s are giving you the tail light warrenty. The warrenty is gone when my tail light’s are out of sight.
November 19th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
I cannot vote for an increase in property taxes to support the schools at this time. First, I can’t afford my taxes as they are. Second, I don’t believe the schools have used the money they have wisely, and I don’t think they will in the future at this point. Thirdly, student populations are falling in Hayward due to outside reasons that new schools are not going to help. Fourthly, until the Hayward schools do a better job of meeting required standards, I question the need for more money. Are students and parents really getting an honest effort for their money?
Again I say, if so many students are testing so low, Hayward should be holding back numerous students. Perhaps moving to year round schools at all levels is a better solution; a system with less learning loss would be much better in Hayward; also less school buildings would be needed so that some campuses could be leased out or closed; the worse buildings could be
put down.
Also suggest that the school board sell or stop leasing their current headquarters, its expensive and hard to reach. There is plenty of room on school campuses for admin offices. Bet the schools and bathrooms will become safer to .
November 19th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
I also forgot to add I would not want to replace all the schools at the same time. I think the rebuilds should wait another five years so that all the schools don’t need replaced at one time.
November 19th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
How about uniformity on the heating, plumbing and energy- go Green Sytems. Seems the new schools are going towards electric, but what if we lose power? We still need a backup, because without power , no heat, no computers, no lights? Is there an emergency back-up? Are solar panals being implimented on the new schools. Emergency backup generators that would be supplied by natural gas that is already @ these sites, but not being utilized?
What is the District’s plan for the diesel generator rotting away @ the Darwin site. Could this be made functionial as a backup on a trailer for a site in a major catastrophy?
November 19th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Another comment- Selling property is a one shot money in the fund. The money will look good for a ahort time and be lost forever.
November 19th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Watchdog;
Go Back and re-read my submission at # 28 above.
You have not understood what I said.
Yes some of the Leroy Green ‘improvements were screwedup” Longwood School was a case in point. he electricakl contractor was based in Stockton and his estimates for labor were based onb preevailingh watge inThat Area,…. not in the same electrical union control area.
First handoutt of paychecks on that job caauseda furor and the work stopped….local wages boosted thje cost significantly…. AS i STATED ABOVE WE NOW HAVE A PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISOR ON OUR PAYROLL WHICH DRAWS FYNDS FROIR THAT PURPOSE FR0OM THE mEASUR i BOND ISSUE..
yOUR CONTRIBUTION ABOVE THIS RESPONSE CONFUSES THE ISSUE…. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!
November 20th, 2011 at 12:24 am
Watchdog,
You do not sell the land, you lease it out. Without making a formal appraisal I had advised the last Superintendent ( Vigil) that the land at the Darwin site had capacity to construct 260 condominium units built on the models at a site in Sacramento which I had been involved with as the appraiser doing the ‘take out loan’ needed to pay off a lender involved on a short period of time, (construction period only.) I loosely estimated that using the concept I had seen used in Sacramento where 200 units had been fit into just 5 acres, that it was feasible to think 260 units could fit onto the9+ acre Darwin site which ALSO enjoyed AN AMENITY in the 14 acre park immediately adjacent and which was located at the corner directly opposite Kaiser Hospital. Kaiser was thought by me to be a prime target for marketing the condo type construction…. As an Apartment rental used rather than as condominiums for immediate sale oncompletion.
These days, no experienced developer builds condominiums for immediate sale. The difficulty in selling condos immediately after construction completion revolved around some lawsuits which were monetarily ruinous when lawyers of the ambulance chasing types preyed on the minds of homeowner association board of Directors Members. Frivalous lawsuits over imagined building defects, some relatively minor, caused a lot of lawsuits which frightened away many developers from building that type of housing.
So a new practice developed…. Build it and rent out the condominiums for 10 years at which time you have assumably corrected any defects that came to notice and delay the sale until the fear of defects are removed from the minds of purchasers.
So had that particular Supt understood what I laid out before him… it just did not register in his mind any longer than it took to blow his nose. He went and arranged a lease to a Charter School which according to the terms of the lease pays only $40,000 per year for a ten year period. The really horrible part of that transaction was the incredible, poorly thought out partitioning of that leased area away from the remainder. HUSD is now stuck with an undeveloped lot that imposes penalty upon any development trying to contend with the irregular boundaries. In other words, that charter school lease screwed up land values so badly that the Initial ‘option money’ income from short term transactions which allow developers to plan an attractive development, in a high rent range derived from potential tenants working in the medical professions and the added attraction of the adjacent park amenity would have brought in short term ‘option money’ for 6 months at about $100,000. And if the developer was intelligent he would convert his option into a ten year lease at about $300,000 per year for ten years when, observing current practice of delaying space rights condominiums and projecting sales prices to a time ten years hence… we could choose to continue the land lease arrangement or let the developer sell the land with the condominiums which might bring about $30,000,000 more into possession of HUSD.
I brought that rough value estimate to the attention of Mr.Armas shortly after his attendance at HUSD meetings began…. He was astounded at what had happened to the Darwin Site and it was then that our interim Supt announced that HUSD was going to sharpen up it’s own education and management of real estate matters.
Recall that as City manager, Mr.Armas involved the City’s redevelopment agency, and the developers of the old cannery site, in conjunction with Hayward Area Recreation District which forces worked together to present the new Burbank school to HUSD at no cost to that budget.
Thus do I suggest that you avoid raising false issues which your above contribution displays…. And that leads to misunderstanding by our largely blue collar community which does not fully understand how things are accomplished.. Good lord, do you want Kathy Booth to start spreading her thoughts on that subject?
November 20th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I have much to comment on regarding the Leroy Green money and “refurbishing”…but I will not give Mr. Kyle any fodder for his rants against me or my husband. I will only remind, for the last time, all that read this blog…My husband was but one of 5 trustees that dismissed Foxworth and hired Kohl and then dismissed Kohl. He did not single handedly take any action that caused Mr. Kyle to be bitter….Why doesn’t Mr. Kyle attack Ms. Betty Forrest, Ms. Myrna Truhill, Mr. Frank Wells, and Dr. Ruth Self for their work on the dismissal of Foxworth and hiring of Kohl???? I think it is because Mr. Kyle has such a vile and vengeful dislike for me, that he cannot bring himself to spread his blame. Poor fool.
November 20th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Booth; Again you resort to distortion…. yes we are all aware of Mr. Booth’s service as one of 5. He also took a tutrn at being ‘Prsident’ ( an exalted term for the meeting manager’s job.)
i HOLD NO BITTER THOUGHTS AGAINST YOUR hUSBAND… MY CRITICISM OF YOU ON THE SUBJECT OF YOUR SUCCESS IN A TREDUCTUION OF THE STIPEND PAID TYHOSE FOLKS WAS BASXED ON THE IDEA THAT YOU SOUGHT TO HAVE ALL THOSE WHO HAD BEEN OF SERVICE AS TRUSTEE IN THE PAST, PROVIDE THE DISTRICT WITH A FULL REFUND OF SUMS
INVOLVED IN THE OVER PAYMENT.
I MERELY CHOSE TO STATE THE AMOUNT OF OVER PAYMENT THAT LARRY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO REFUND IF YOUR DEMAND WAS TO BE MET WITH FAIRPLAY.You did not intend to exempt lARRY FROM REFUNDING THAT SIZEABLE AMOUNT!
OR,DID YOU?
DO THE MATH…$300 PER MONTH X 12 MONTHS X FOUR YEARS…..
WELL THEN, WAS IT ANY WONDER THAT YOU DROPPED ‘THAT HOT ISSUE’ AS THOUGH IT WERE A HOT COAL?
iXS IT ASNY WONDER TO A CONSIDWERABLE NUMBER OF BLOG ISSUES THAT i REGARD YOUR CONSTANT WHINING ABOUT WHAT husd OUGHT TO BE DOING… AS HAVING A DETRIMENTAL AFFECT UPON THE COMMUNITY?I assume of course that some of your defenders repeat much of what you put forwsrd in their own ‘back fence conversations’. Much to the detriment of HUSD.
rECENTLY YOU STATED THAT YOU WOULD HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THE CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION AND RE-ELECTION IN LATE 2012.
Excercise free speach as much as you like… but be aware of additional; criticism if you again wonder into your special interpretation of free speach.
Licentiuos castigations thrown irresponsibloy against qualified candidates is not worthy of you. It harms the broad community in which wwe both live. I will not overlook your propensity for harm to others.
November 20th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
I am so very glad that you are able to determine what the enrollment was during my husband’s term of office and how much, if any, he should “repay” the district…how is it that you are so clear in yur figures????????? When HUSD bills ALL past BOE members, with a specific accounting then he will address the issue.
By the way, only those whom my husband calls his friends and associates call him by his given name, doing so implies a familiarity and congeneniality which he has never shared with you. I and he do not refer to you by your given name, please, if you can’t find it in your black heart to resist, then please refer to all board members, present and past by thier given names. Or is it that you must be disrespesctful in all aspects of your postings regarding me?
I suggest that you refer to the dictionary again regarding your accusations….perhaps you read far too much into what was/is said….
Andd so it goes between us. I just can’t seem to resist responding to your evil, vile, misinformed and unjust postings…
November 20th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Booth;
Last word…. ? evil,vile,misinformed and unjust…. you have become a bit unimaginative. How about ‘HONEST’?
November 20th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Booth;
Evil, vile. misinformed and unjust postings….??
An opportunity OUGHT BE taken up by your admirers (?) to review your postings,commencing with your first(INITIAL) ‘CONTRIBUTION’ COMMENCING IN August OF YEAR
2010.
They would have ample OPPORTUNITY TO USE YOUR OWN WORDS AND APPLY THEM TO THE THOUGHT PROCESSES YOU USED IN ATTEMPTED DEFAMATION OF THE MOST HELPFUL OF THOSE PRESENTLY SEATED TRUSTEES.
November 20th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
YOU????? NEVER…UNLESSS SOMEWHERE I HAVE MISSED THAT YOU WERE VOTED THE MOST HONEST AND UPSTANDING AND COURTEOUS BLOGGER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS BLOG…OOPS I FORGOT, YOU CARE NOT WHAT OTHERS MAY SAY…IT’S YOUR SINGLE VOTE THAT COUNTS. TTFN…JOHNNY BOY
November 20th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Booth and Kyle:
Can both of you just shut up!!!!!
November 20th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Booth;
At 81 years of age, I have had many good days, but none are superior to the experience of pleasure in rebutting falacious remarks deliverd by folks of your type !
Further suggest that you seek counseling from your Pastor, assuming you are on speaking terms with one.
I’ll not waste further time with you but will be alert to intercede on behalf of any of your intended victims at election time. In the interim, seek counseling and modify your outlook in such fashioN as to become helpful rather than a detriment to the educational community!
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November 20th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
wATCHDOG AND BOOTH;
CARE TO COMMENT ON MY DISCUSSION INVOLVING DARWIN SITE AT # 37 ABOVE?
COME ON,IT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF BEING HELPFUL IN A PRO-ACTIVE MANNER…. RATHER THAN LAMBASTING ADMIN ON MATTERS WHICH WHERE YOU OBVIOUSLY LACK EXPERIENCE. CONSTANT DUMPING ON ADMIN WHEN ADDRESSING MATTERS ABOUT WHICH THE COMPLAINENT HAS BEEN THE BANE OF HUSD.
Do you know what the biigest factor was in dumping Marlinhj Foxworth?
The man constantly asked this question: How do you educate children who ecessively absent and/or handicapped by constant moving from one distyrict to another.
During his tenure Union City’s school District ‘sent back’ 250 students who had actually been living in Hayward…Union City HAD wanted the ADA money which they represented….
Some parents of truants wanted surcease from chatter ABOUT ABSENCE AND TRANSIENCE. sO… LET’S TRY UNION CITY!
OF COURSE HEA’s beef about a needed raise dis not Help Supy. Foxworth. I liked him, he took time to sit down and talk even though he new that my children had attened parochial schools aS DID MY WIFE AND I.
November 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am
I have been trying to understand what the motivation is behind this ongoing nastiness between Mrs. Booth and Mr. Kyle for a long time.
Mrs. Booth seems motivated because she can’t resist telling it like she sees it and of course is compelled to defend her family against personal attacks.
Mr. Kyle is a lot like an uncle of mine. At every family gathering, my uncle picked fights with whoever he could. We eventually called him a fisherman, not because of any similarity to The Fisherman, but because he would throw out his bait and then reel in whoever bit. It was how he engaged people. He didn’t know any other way of doing it.
I had another uncle who bit for years until he finally walked out. My mother took the bait during the women’s movement when he was calling her a “women’s libber” and making generally riduculing her and her heartfelt belief in women’s rights. They are all dead now.
I learned not to bite ever as did my cousins.
I had to live with that constant conflict in my family and the hurt it caused us all for many years. I guess that explains what’s behind my getting involved today.
As we look forward to getting together with our families for Thanksgiving, may we all find peace at last.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:55 am
Ms. Blair;
I invite you to read the submissions to the blog commencing in August 2010 when Mrs. Booth first entered the picture.
Opinions are one thing which reasonable people use with respect for the privaleges we enjoy under the Constitution of this Country.
However, if you sift through the numerous contributions which Mrs Booth submitted in the summer and fall of 2010 you see exceptioannly strong, offensive statements in her attempts to denigrate the the candidacy of Mr. Armas our retired former City Manager who has a deep interest in improving the image of the Community, He is an effective leader and you will easily understanjd this if you see how it came to be that the Burbankl School was re-built with very little expense to HUSD. Books and ordinary supplies was about the limit of HUDS’s involvment.
Mrs. Booth attacked the man ceasely and used not free speach but licentious speach.If you let that pass by without attempt to expose it, as readers and honest defenders of worthy contributors, then you do not understand the need for expression of an oposing viewpoint which attacks fallacies of put forward by mal-contents upon another person’s character.
I joined into making blog contributions after observing some years ago that the heinous content of a great many contributions by those usin ‘nom de plume’ were not only seen as a cowardly act but highly damaging to HUSD and it’s public image.
Frankly, I honestly think that use of nom de plume identities in this so called opportunity to use free speach is damaging to the community as a whole and more intensely damaging to HUSD.
Booth joined her opinions with that of a nom de plume type, who used as her identity, ‘obana new age’ so take in those contributions which started with the appointment of Arams to fill the spot by a resigned Trustee…… that contributor was so vicious that you had to question her sanity. Booth failed to recoignize that fact and produced some pretty offensive stuff in her own right.
You might also pick up on a few of Michael Moore’s contributions one of which was so offensive in his falacious attack upon the Pope that I complained to BANG editors.
I take responsibilities as a citizen quite serious.Inculcated by parochjial education which concluded with three years as a boarding student at San Jose’s Bellarine Prepatory associated with Santa Clara university, I take citizenhship seriosly… at 81 years of age. I can honestly state that I have missed opportunity to vote only once and that was due to the fact that the Army postal service delivered my absentt ballot after the election date.
I pay my taxes and asmwents to support public schools and have voted against a school bond issue only once; that particular vote I opposed the recent HUSD School Bond issue on the basis of the idea that the Treeview school sits atop the Hayward Fault line and no provision was made to relocate that school within the content and purpose of the recent bond measure.
Now unless you are willing to review the 2010 contributions made by Booth to this blog…. you should refrain from further discussion on the beef between Booth and myself. Find that opportunity by clicking on to year 2010 at right hand column and then fast forward to month of August!
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November 21st, 2011 at 5:20 pm
John, how many of your friends at Bellarmine were the victims of the good fathers? I do not want to mince words, at least 5 per cent were sexually traumatized by them. The Church agrees that this is about normal. That the Pope refuses to release the records of the pederasts in Ireland and Belgium has resulted in those two countries taking action against the church. It is time now that the District Attorneys in California begin to prosecute the Church as aggressively as possible.
It is no wonder though that the Pope has not moved on this. He was raised and trained by the most virulent of traditions. One pales at the record of Pius and the Church in shielding Nazis. Young Austrian Waffen SS like the Pope pledged to fight to the death for the Greater German Reich.
The church does not present the truth to the children that they abuse. You will no doubt deny it, but that would be a licentious denial on your part and libelous at the best. There are no words to describe the abuses the Church has had on young people.
As well, please note that the Church does not let those over 80 vote. There is a good reason for that. You should emulate it.
November 21st, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Molore
You are even more sickly than Booth1 Your roots are based in Rev Paisley’s turf within Ulster.
Get your drums out… start parcticing your chants. it’s getting near time to particiapate in the orange parade. If ‘Rev; (?) Paisley has passed on, do not forget to stop by and pray vows of reveremnce at his grave…. your intense focus on priestly vio;ation of vows raises the question… have you personal,knowledge of abuse at Bellarmine? How did you come your information…. a script writer?
I perviously described the personal story of an under aqe age ‘draftee’ who was inducted on the same day I was … we wound up at Ft.Knox together where he took a very hard time from eastern Kentucky MNCO’s whop thought hjim a tarhget for their contempt…. in 1952. Fred was sucked in at age 13 or 14 and reicked execution oin the spot as he deserted the wermacht and had to hide out.
He served his time as a d5raftee in the USA and in fact evenbtuated to teaching my son in-law much about laboring in an Oakland Iron Founry ..while you succeed at what? cheep snipeer ‘cracks’ typical of
Paisley and his ilk.
You obviopusly ignored my post involving a a published article within a Jewish owners’ furniture advertisments at an Ohio store not too distant from Kentucky wher my s=]duagheter lives.
Tyhe man published results mof his own research in sex abuses with non-catholic ministers of various protestant faith.
G0 clean your own house you poor, HIGHLY dissturbed individual!
November 21st, 2011 at 8:01 pm
John, I am no Prod. I am a Republican. I have no use for your papish ways and the vileness of hate.
Use the millions of the Vatican’s money to pay back to the families that your church has defamed and destroyed.
Keep your priests and liturgy far from good people.
November 21st, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Moore
I am told tyou are a M0ovie producer…..
Please name the films you have produced….. and are they suitable for children?>
I am alos told that you are a product of Mt. Eden HS.Is that True?
November 21st, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Moore;
My last post was not printed out……never mind I do not need to know the titles of your films…… Google led me to a remark by an acquaintemnce of yours….Her name?
Pauline Kelley a film croitic who has used the words…’shaloow and facetious’ in describing your product.
November 22nd, 2011 at 5:11 am
Moore;
Will your films be immortalized in the same fashion as the Ed Woods classic “plan 13 from outer space” ?
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:09 am
Given that Thanksgiving is nortorius for a time not only of thanks but of family conflict, you have to ask why families keep coming back year after year on this day.
I think it is the reason I keep coming back to this blog. It has to do with something other than the intellectual positions of the participants. Who really cares that much with what anyone thinks? Nor is it only about the food.
No, it has to do with matters of the heart. That’s what all these disputes are really about. We come back together at Thanksgiving in hopes that we can finally love and understand one another,be grateful and find peace. I keep coming back to the Hayword for that.How about you?
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:41 am
Blair;
Nice thought5. ’tis why I keep coming back to review what others are thinking. Most, but not all, are attempting to contribute thoughts which are intended to be helpful in advancing the community’s well being.
Some are just constantly putting ‘the knock’ on those who have an idea or an individual whose attitude they are unable to accept.
Early in our marriage while aiding father-in-law in folding a collapsible table, I came damn close to severing a finger…..everybody wanted to attend my trip to the emergency room at Highland hospital.
I saw no reason to disrupt the gathering and left hurriedly. Which was fortunate for them.
Boy oh boy what an education it was to witness those injured in family brawls…. the medical doctor kept apologizing for taking others ahead of me…he saw that my military experience had taught proper attention to my temporary bindings….as he rushed to repair stabbings, broken skulls crushed by beer bottles etc…. wild!
Daughter is trage nurse in an emergeny room equiped hospital, she takes holidays,when the co-workers seek to exchange national holidays in trade for her desire to be home at Christmas. as opportunity to gain premium overtime money…. family gatherings, in her opinion, are often nothing more but opportunities to resurrect old arguments… ar least in her opinion.
My observation at Highland hospital almost convinced me of that…. even a small percentage of our population can crowd an emergency room at public hospitals….some just fail to understand or accept any form of moral values.
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:37 pm
John, I am two and a half years older, better looking and have less personal fortune than the person you keep trying to associate with me. I did not go to Hayward schools. I am a real life long term homeowner in Hayward. I served my county in combat in Vietnam. It was a nasty war, fought for the wrong reasons and there was nothing at all good about it. The best parts of Vietnam have rotted in rice paddies. Americans will never be able to atone for the atrocities we committed against those people. But they got their country.
No one cares about your skills and experiences from long ago. What you did was then and now it is already forgotten. Leave the change to the young.
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:56 pm
John, it just occurred to me that we have not heard about your position on the upcoming change to the Mass. Now that the Pope has approved the change now you get to worship anew with the revised missal on Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent.
You have not talked much about the changes, offering instead to educate through the Church, the local schools. But despite an aggressive effort by bishops to educate the nation’s 68 million Catholics, including training for priests and an extensive web campaign, new survey results released this week say that three in four Catholics are unaware of the upcoming changes.
As part of a broader survey not yet released, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, which studies Catholic trends and demographics, asked more than 1,000 U.S. Catholics if they knew about changes to the Roman Missal. Overall, 77 percent said no. Among Catholics who attend Mass weekly, 43 percent said no.
They’ll want to get up to speed: The new translation requires different responses from congregants in a dozen sections of the Mass.
For instance, when the priest says, “The Lord be with you,” the congregation now responds, “And also with you.” But come November, the congregation will say, “And with your spirit.”
Perhaps you will regale us with your personal involvement with Ratzinger.
When reciting the Nicene Creed, the statement of faith, Catholics now say that Jesus is “one in being with the Father.” Soon, they will say that Jesus is “consubstantial with the Father.” Also, Jesus will no longer be “born of the Virgin Mary,” but “incarnate of the Virgin Mary.”
The acclamation “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again” is being removed from the Mass entirely because it was never in the original Latin version.
The new missal is the first major change to Mass rituals since the early 1970s, when revised texts were issued to implement Second Vatican Council reforms that allowed local languages to replace Latin in the Mass. The new English-language version of the missal is meant to conform more closely to the official Latin text that serves as the basis for all local-language Mass translations. Pope John Paul II initiated the latest translation in 2000. The following year, the Vatican released a document titled “Liturgiam authenticam” (Authentic Liturgy), which said the new missal should replicate the Latin Mass in vocabulary, syntax, punctuation and capitalization.
Even as U.S. bishops press forward with implementation, a minority of priests and laypeople have protested, calling the new wordings awkward and inaccessible. Among them was a Seattle priest who persuaded more than 22,000 Catholics to sign an online petition calling for a pilot program in select parishes. That effort was unsuccessful.
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Moore;
No chance I would leave the country to the young; especially if you consider yourself ‘young’!
Funny how the photo om wikepedia resembles the Micheal Moore who masde his presence known in the folks sitting in at Oakland City Hall.
What I did recently for HUSD was to expose the lack of Real Estatwe management skills at HUSD. I brought5 the matter to the attention of Mr. Armas who recognized the problem I exposed as correct. It is he who has initiated the sudden exposure of opportunity
at HUSd. You dare denigrate my exp-erience in the appraisal of real estate resulting in major loans? Who the hell do you think you are?
Your service in Vietnam was result of the luck of the draw…. I was drafted and had the good fortune to spend time in peaceful Europe of the mid 1950′s era; although the uprising in Hungary and the concurrent Suez problem had us in the field at fallback positions, fully loaded and ready to go. We even had atomic cannon with large caliber atomoic shells at the ready! Luckily our President of the moment kept his cool!
I will not sit back and be told by the likes of you to bug off!
Funny how inmy nearly 51 year residency I wound being formally apointed to sometgimg near 25 r 26 years of beuing selected to
ad hoc groups’ or ‘Task Forces’ and not once in all those years did I hear the name Micheal Moore introduced as a person dewsiring to address the group or serve on a group.
Great Grandparents onj Paternal side married in Belfast!@
It was a violation of the ‘rules. expecially since Alex Kyle was a Presbyterian.. he lost his job the next day had to leave families and country…
Maternal great gt\randparents left Slgo looking for something to eat since the bvlody English would not relwease grain rweswe3rved for horses. Granddad was labor8ing in an English Coal mine 12 hours a day 6 days a week for a schilling a week. At age 11 he was fired for the reason that he had grown too large to follow shallow coal seams… youngest of 5 and the only male child he took himself to AUSTRALIA WHERE A SITER HAD GONE. HER BROTHER IN LAW WAS A PRIEST WHO HAD A KITCHEN FULL OF YOUNG BOYS GATHER IN THE RECTORY 5 NIGHTS PER WEEK TO LEAQRN…AS GRANDAD MC CUNIFF PUT IT; ‘TO TEACH US OUR WRITING AND NUMBERS. I WAS 10 OR 11 BEFOR I REALIZED THAT ‘MONSIGNOR RYAN GOD BLESS HIS MEMORY’ WAS NOT THE MAN’S REAL NAME.
gRANDAD EVENTUATED TO OWNERSHIP OF GREEN gROCERY BUSINES IN sYDNEY aUATRALIA,tHE ONLY iRISHMAN AMONG ALL THE TALIANS IN THAT BUSINEESS. HE BECAME GREEN
Green GROCER TO HIS LORD SHIP THE mAYOR OF SYDNEY. hE MARRIED AN ORPHAN RAUISED AN EDUCATED IN A CONCENT SCHOOL AT BRISANE, MARRIED TWO WWEEKS AFTER THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE WITHIN THE R.C. CHURCH, IT ONLY LASTED ABOUT 60 YEARS WHEN HE DIED HERE IN OAKLAND TO WHICH TYHEY BOTH IMMIGRATED, ARRIVING IN sf THE DAY AFTER THE cITY BURNED DOWN. bROUGHT THREE CHUILDREN, THE FOURTH,MY MOTHER WAS BORN IN Oakland.
Grandad was ‘forced’ out of auatralis because despite the fact the he was married he was severely critcized for not volunteeringt to fight in the Boar War.
CVan you imagine the man’s anger when told that he ought be patriotic and serve the interests of the English Crown.He closed the store, trusted his Itaian friends to send him whatever they could salvage and forward the proceeds. Which they did.
One of his sisters had a son who became part of the delgation to League of Nations and later to Unesco. John Andrews was a full professor at Melbourne University when he passed.He is memorialized on those premises.
So with the turmoil ctreated on one side of a family, ostracized to the extent that Alex Kyle the Prebyterian lost his job for involving himself in a marriage to Catholic woman… they eventuated to farming near Rochester New York where they raised 10 children. My Paterrnal Grandfather used to laughingly refer to himself as # 7. Maternal Grandmother, the product of a marriage between widow and widower came to San Francisco as a seamstress to work for her Father’s son by his earlier widow. They did not get along becaquse he was a hard assed protestant. After meeting her obligation under the bond for the ‘passage money’ she walked out and marruied # 7 had five children and the only daugther died of a childhood disease at age 3 or 4. Grandad was aq respected police officer in Oakalnd for 34 years. Her rose to the rank of ‘Inspector’ within three years of joining OPD.
Was chosen to be persoional guard for Eamon D’Valera the New York Born Productof an Irish woman and a Poerto Rican LOad who died Young. Sg=he senht him to Ireland for his schooling and he became the firts President of the Republuic.
Touring uSA on a bfi TOUR ( BULLETS FOR iRELAND ) KMY GRANDEFATHER ALSO TALL AND GHHARD TO MISS BECAUSE OF HUI=I S RED HAIR BECAME THE MAN’S BODY GUARD WHILE IN oAKLAND. bROIUGHT HIM HOME FOR DINNER WHICH WAS EXHILARATING FOR GRANDMOTHER …SHE REUSHED OUT TO TELL THE NEIGHBORS BUT THEY COULD CARE LESS… AT THAT TIME NORTH oAKLAND WAS PREDOMINATLY iTALIAN.
nOW, WITH A BACK GROUND LIKE THAT DO YOU THINK FOR A MOMENT SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE YOUR NASTY FACED COMMENTS ABOUT THE RC CHURCH GO UNCHALLENGED?
FAT CHANCDE OF THAT? NOT WHILE I DRAW BREATH! yOU MINDLESS DUMMY!
November 22nd, 2011 at 4:43 pm
So John are you looking forward to the new missal or not. It is already clear that your forbears ducked the Easter Rising, the Black and Tan Wars, the Irish Civil Wars and the whole issue of the betrayal and the Treaty.
I know well all those stories, my ancestors are of the Seven Septs of Laois, direct from the O’Neal, by way of Kerry.
You speak of the service with the OPD. If he was OPD during your youth he was as crooked as the day is long and a major bootlegger, bonded forever with the Italians as the original gangsters. No doubt why you became interested in real estate. Best way to steal. Why let all the money go to the bankers.
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Moore;
You are given solely to rant! Worthless! BAnkrupt in outlook, uselesws to the community!
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:46 pm
May all of you enjoy your Thanksgivings and have all the blessings of Providence rain down upon you and provide you with bounteous fortune.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Did you all hear the news? There’s a new newspaper in town – “The Hayward News.” It is published by the same people who created the San Leandro Times and the Castro Valley Forum. You can pick up issues all over Hayward. I got mine at Best Burgers on A street. They are at the library too.
It’s really important that we spread the word right away – to readers an advertisers alike. Like anything new and alive, it needs nurturing in the beginnning to make it a success.
They may be competing with the Daily Review, but I think competition is healthy. Maybe they will write the stories the Daily Review won’t. Also they are looking for neighborhoood items/pictures that we run across.
Best of all, it is free to readers! No one is excluded by lack of funds or a computer.
I have a class in Castro Valley and everyone there likes their Forum. I have been reading it too. It has a good sense of what’s important to a local community.
November 23rd, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Why are my blog contributions not in the blog? Yet the cankerous dialog of Mr. Kyle is allowed to be on. Hmmm..?
November 23rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Anniewilkes;
Some get censored !
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Where the heck is Eric anyway? I miss his contributions to my lifestyle, such as it is.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Mike, like the changes to the creed. Don’t care about the rest, could take or leave them. Feel sorry for the music people, alot of composers are having the residuals end because the phrases no longer fit.
All Translations in the end are an agreement between two peoples. As times change, so do the agreements. Also as more older texts are found, the meanings alter.
Still working on the Red Sea vs. Reed Sea problem.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Re: Leasing property vs. owning. Most businesses perfer to rent. They feel it is cheaper somehow. I don’t understand their thinking, but the school board is following right along behind this idea.
November 24th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Qodrn
Start-ups see it as a way to preserve ‘working capital’
November 24th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Working capital is calculated as current assets minus current liabilities.
Positive working capital means that the company is able to pay off its short-term liabilities.
Negative working capital means that a company currently is unable to meet its short-term liabilities with its current assets (cash, accounts receivable and inventory).
November 24th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Moore’ Wow,am I immpressed! Dou tou think Qdrn was impressed by your overwhelming explanation?
You certainly are an impressive fellow
are you related in some small way to the
‘other’ Michael Moore? Did you see yhis ‘Roger and Me’ movie?
November 25th, 2011 at 10:07 am
John, already answered.
November 28th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
The Payless Shoe Store on the corner of Mission and Harder near Kmart is closing. If you need some shoes, might be worth a look.
A victim of the beautification project perhaps?
This was where I ran to buy my son shoes when he lost them on school mornings. They were open earlier than Kmart and easier to reach. Son still loses his shoes.
November 28th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Re renting
But, what benefit would this be to a long standing company?
I guess this goes back to why did Sears sell the Sears building?
November 28th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Sears’ optimistic growth projections were not met after its completion in 1984. Competition from its traditional rivals (like Montgomery Ward) continued, with new competition by retailing giants such as Kmart, Kohl’s, Oenney’s and Wal-Mart. The fortunes of Sears & Roebuck declined in the 1970s as the company lost market share. Sears management grew more cautious. The Sears Tower was not the draw Sears had hoped it would be. The tower stood half-vacant for a decade as a surplus of office space was erected in Chicago in the 1980s.
By 1990, Keck, Mahin & Cate, a law firm, considered moving out of its space in the Sears Tower and moving into a potential new development, which would become 77 West Wacker Drive. Brokers who were familiar with the lease negotiations stated that Sears was trying to keep Keck, Mahin & Cate in the building. Keck, Mahin & Cate decided to move into 77 West Wacker, and the Prime Group, developer of 77 West Wacker, finalized the development of the facility. During the time that Keck, Mahin & Cate was scheduled to move out of the Sears Tower, Sears planned to move its offices to its merchandise group facilities in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Sears began moving its offices out of the Sears Tower in 1992. Sears has been losing money ever since, despite attempts at new markets through acquisition like K-Mart and OSH. Basically Sears Holdings is creatng as much cash as it can and still hold off debt. As a company they are in sad shape.
In 1994 Sears sold the building to Boston-based AEW Capital Management with financing from MetLife. At the time it was one third vacant. By 1995 Sears had completely vacated the building, moving to a new office campus in Hoffman Estate.
November 30th, 2011 at 10:30 am
The Payless in Dublin is closing as well. I think they are are closing their older stores…
November 30th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
All;
No news from Mr. Kurhi ?
December 1st, 2011 at 1:56 pm
In case you missed it, 247WallStreet.com has declared California the worst state in the union financially speaking.
Yet, the legislature continues to pretend all is well. Essentially, the state does not receive any return for is spending. The present rate of giving money away is not sustainable.
50. California
> State debt per capita: $3,660 (21st highest)
> Pct. without health insurance: 18.5% (8th highest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 14.5% (tied for 21st highest)
> Unemployment: 11.9% (2nd highest)
California has moved down one slot on from last year to earn the title of the worst-run state in the country. In the fiscal year 2009, the state spent $430 billion, roughly 14% of all the money spent by states in that year. Compared to its revenue, the state spent too much — California had the 10th lowest revenue per person, and spent the 15th most per person. California is the only state in the country to be rated A-, the lowest rating ever given to a state by S&P. Despite the huge amount the state spends each year, conditions remain poor. California has the second-lowest percentage of adults with a high school diploma in the country, the second-highest foreclosure rate and is tied for the second highest unemployment rate in the U.S.
Read more: Best and Worst Run States in America — An Analysis Of All 50 – 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2011/11/28/best-and-worst-run-states-in-america-an-analysis-of-all-50/#ixzz1fK3A5JvO
December 1st, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Maybe Eric has abandoned us or been reassigned to another area of the Bay Area.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Eric is on Facebook and still with the Review.
December 1st, 2011 at 6:46 pm
The payless by the new target (Hesperian & a) is closing, too. Glad to know Eric is still around.
December 1st, 2011 at 11:41 pm
All
Who needs Eric to stir the water when you have characters like me coming to your aid with topics?
This item should set you to….( good grief !) THINKING? LOOKEE HERE !
…..Hayward Unified School District is plagued by budget deficits which are basically caused by student truancy and transience. This is not a new problem!
Within my own memory, it has been existent within the district for more than 20 years.
On September 30 2010, a new law came into play and this tool, leading to correction on a quick basis, has not yet been employed by HUSD! The law was passed by the State of California legislature, through leadership of State Senator J. Leno and is entitled, “Senate Bill No. 1317” It took effect on January 1, 2011 and to the best of my current understanding, has not yet been utilized to curb the substantial money loss caused by truancy and transience on the part of a large number OF students and their irresponsible parents!
Serious grievance with the HUSD Board of trustees now motivates me to oppose any consideration of a new parcel tax ( or assessment ) levied against and, in addition to, the current Real Property taxation and assessments levied against properties within the boundaries of the Hayward Unified School District.
It was not too long ago that voters approved Measure I in support of the current construction program which sees several new school structures nearing completion. Measure I has built into it, a feature that will soon impose another assessment necessary to completion of the Reconstruction and Improvement program.
Recall that the measure provided for a total of four assessments, each to exist for 25 years and imposed upon the tax roll on four separate occasions; the second such assessment will soon arrive. Four assessments imposed upon the tax rolls, in a time space at intervals of four years each, will eventually see the sum initially imposed multiplied by four, in the not too distant future.
Now,QUITE RECENTLY, HUSD TRUSTEES SPOKE of a new parcel tax at a recent HUSD Trustee meeting! The purpose displayed on that occasion was to provide cash assistance to a budget ‘wracked and tortured’ by failure to penalize parents of repetitive truants.
Their apparent indifference to the future of their own children, as well as the educational opportunities afforded to more responsible, ambitious students, must not be tolerated!
The budget shortfall of nearly $ 8,000,000 in school year 2010 -2011 is an obscenity when seen as caused by reluctance to bring charges against parents whose children wracked up an incredible money loss to the district in school year 2010 – 2011.
I’ll not vote for another assessment until our esteemed Trustees make use of SB 1317. A night or two in the ‘cooler’ will alert many NEGELECTFUL PARENTS to the future faced by their OWN offspring when their habitual truancy serves to deny them the future they deserve.
December 2nd, 2011 at 6:01 am
All
Mr. Kurhi did nice story about Donna Fitzwater’s sudden demiswe. See today’s Review!
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:58 pm
My sympathy to Donna Fitzwater’s family. She was a solution to an area problem. Sad.
Equally sad about the demise of KGO. Just shows why outsiders shouldn’t operate local stations. If you want to listen to news (over and over) radio, everyone knows that you go to KCBS. No one else will do it better, so local stations knew better than to waste time, money and talent by trying.
I guess Eric Byrnes just shot way up the list of the talk radio kings.
December 3rd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
The Hayward school district website has a new approach to the agenda for the school board meetings. The good is you don’t have to go through all the pages to find the item you want. The bad news is you might need to see three places to compelte one item.
Any opinions?
Been 21 days since the last Eric sighting on this blog.
December 4th, 2011 at 7:09 am
Qdrn
This blog gives every indication that it is dying!
Which of itself is a good thing!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Dying?! Not on my watch! I’m going to check out the new agenda right now.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:21 am
Teachermama;
Good luck!
December 4th, 2011 at 9:09 am
I found the new agenda format very frustrating to obtain information to the general public.Are they doing this intentionally?
December 4th, 2011 at 10:25 am
All;
Not a single comment upon the information found in
# 82 above. Which is why I am so sure that that the blog will soon die.
Ladies, get to the heart of the problem with the budget! Avoid creation of cause for suspicion as seen in the last sentence at at my above contribution which deALT WITH NEED TO INVOKE USE OF wsENATAE bILL 1317 above.
Yes watchdog,did you not know that the trustees and Teachers unions get together in some dark room at the top of the highly guarded stairs to plot out the next trick to bamboozle the public?
December 4th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Watchdog;
I finally gave up trying to access the back-up materials. The new business manager is an IT specialist…I’m sure he thinks this is a “dandy” change to the format. I suggest that you do what I did and send an email to him regarding the frustration that is happening with this new program.
December 4th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Booth;
Why not just go to The Secretary odfr the Board and ask for a paper copy?
How in blazes are you so sure ABOUT he man thinks. Your habit of inserting remarks which belittle the employees oF husd IS EXACTLY THE WRONG THING TO DO!
I AM SURE THAT IT IS PRECISELY THE WRONG USE OF ‘FREEDOM OF SPEACH’ WHEN YOU USE YOUR DISTORTED VIEW POINTS AS THOUGH FOLKS WILL SEE THE ‘TRUTH’ IN THE FASHION WHICH YOU PRESENT IT.
December 4th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
The Eric watch continues. I should be watching the Raiders, but if you follow football, I had to be elsewhere early on.
Plus, the 49ers fired our Scout troop which had been working for them for 13 years. It is not like we help kids or anything. Well, we couldn’t move to the new park anyway.
happy Sunday to all.
December 5th, 2011 at 8:30 am
Actually, Eric, we are just picking on you a little bit. We are all enjoying your fine work for the paper as usual.
Keep up the good work.
December 5th, 2011 at 8:50 am
I don’t believe that I belittled Mr. Dobbs at all. It has been my experience that when someone is an IT expert, they want only to implement what they believe is a better process for using websites. The fact that we the public are perhaps a little behind the times is our “fault” and with time I am sure we will get it. Hard as it may be for some to believe, I actually admire Mr. Dobbs and think that he is doing a remarkable job dealing with the situation in HUSD.
BTW Mr. Kyle, the secretary of the board is Mr. Reynoso. If you are referring to Ms. Ruiz, she is the secretary to the superintendent. I do not believe that I must drive to the district office, attempt to find parking and then request a paper copy. I do not need a paper copy…I simply need to get familiar with the new format.
December 5th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Has anyone met the new superintendent? I was reading about the FITAG and am wondering if they meet every month. Someone tol,d me that anyone can attend the meeting.
And is Heredia still on the board?? She wasn’t at the last meeting and came late to another. I am not sure.
December 5th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Lots of comments. I’ve been away too too long. I saw one of the schools is having a performance. Any news about the financial situation of HUSD?
December 5th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Cynthia,
I am not sure how often FITAG meets but I do know that the meetings are open to the public and I believe that the public may participate in discussions. President Brunner is a member of FITAG, you might get more detailed information from her directly.
This board meeting on Wednesday will have a report on the budget, if there is any news regarding what they called the “trigger” for more cuts I am sure that Mr. Dobbs will update the board and the public.
December 5th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Thank you Kathi,
I contacted the district office today and spoke with the board secretary about FITGA. By the way, Reynoso is not board secretary, Mig Ruiz is. Reynoso is clerk. I may go to the board meeting at city hall.
December 6th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
No FITAG meetings listed on the HUSD website. Maybe there isn’t one this year.
Hmmmm.
December 6th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Wake up people of Hayward!
Get on here and talk about your city!
While you still can!
December 6th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Well, if you ever wanted to own a football team, your chance has arrived. For the price of $275, you can own a piece of the Green Bay Packers.
For more info, go to http://www.packersowner.com.
Good Luck.
December 6th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
I thought the new format for accessing the agenda was annoying, but manageable.
December 7th, 2011 at 7:44 am
FITAG is meeting this year. The next time we meet is December 13th, but it will be a special meeting and not the regular format. You can contact ekrumlauf@husd.k12.ca.us for schedule and agenda information. This is the email for Elaine Krumlauf and she is very helpful.
December 7th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
the city is having a meet and greet with the new superintendent on Dec. 12. Think its open to all at City Hall.
Info on the city web site and HUSD.
December 8th, 2011 at 9:37 am
All:
If you missed it, the HUSD School Board of Trustees, has decided to place a parcel tax on the ballot in early 2012 as a means of making up a projected shortfall of about $8,000,000. Or about the equivalent sum of money lost to truancy and held back by the State.
Hayward Unified School District is plagued by budget deficits which are basically caused by student truancy and transience. This is not a new problem! Within my own memory, it has been existent within the district for more than 20 years.
On September 30 2010, a new law came into play and this tool, leading to correction on a quick basis, has not yet been employed by HUSD! The law was passed by the State of California legislature, through leadership of State Senator J. Leno and is entitled, “Senate Bill No. 1317” It took effect on January 1, 2011 and to the best of my current understanding, has not yet been utilized to curb the substantial money loss caused by truancy and transience on the part of a large number students and their irresponsible parents!
Serious grievance with the HUSD Board of trustees now motivates me to oppose any consideration of a new parcel tax ( or assessment ) levied against and, in addition, to the current Real Property taxation and assessments levied against properties within the boundaries of the Hayward Unified School District.
It was not too long ago that voters approved Measure I in support of the current construction program which sees several new school structures nearing completion. Measure I has built into it a feature that will soon impose another assessment necessary to completion of the Reconstruction and Improvement program.
Recall that the measure provided for a total of four assessments, each to exist for 25 years and imposed upon the tax roll on four separate occasions; the second such assessment will soon arrive. Four assessments imposed upon the tax rolls, in a time space at intervals of four years each, will eventually see the sum initially imposed multiplied by four, in the not too distant future.
Talk of a new parcel tax arose at last night’s Trustee meeting! The purpose displayed on this occasion was to provide cash assistance to a budget ‘wracked and tortured’ by failure to penalize parents of repetitive truants. The continuing parental indifference to the future of their own truant children, as well as the negative affect upon educational opportunities afforded to more responsible, ambitious students, must not be tolerated!
The budget shortfall of nearly $ 8,000,000 in school year 2010 -2011 is an obscenity when seen as caused by reluctance to bring charges against parents whose children wracked up an incredible money loss to the district in school year 2010 – 2011.
In early months of year 2011, I wrote to Ms. Brunner seeking an explanation of why it was that senate bill 1317 had not been brought into play. Brunner returned with a message which spoke of a softer, more gentle plan then being taken up by HUSD. ‘We will be speaking to parents on an individual basis … so to make them aware of the problem, thus assuring their future co-operation’
Last night, the trustees, without realizing it,indirectly admitted failure of that ‘nice guy approach’ when dealing with neglectful parents. Now the error is compounded by proposing to place a parcel tax on a near future ballot which, of itself will probably cost $200,000. in expense!
Last night they voted to place on a near future ballot, a parcel tax sufficient to bring budget into balance. A few months ago, Supt . Duran, speaking in support of a new parcel tax thought the amount would be at least $200. per taxable residential property parcel. Add that to the additional sum to be placed on your tax bill for phase two of a four part assessment soon to be imposed by Measure I
I’ll not vote for another assessment until our esteemed Trustees make use of SB 1317. A night or two in the ‘cooler’ will alert many neglectful parents to the future faced by their offspring, when their habitual truancy serves to deny their own children the future they deserve.
Frankly I feel betrayed by the lack of intestinal fortitude displayed by Trustees as they moved to place a new parcel tax on our properties. They have a tool available in Senate Bill 1317 which they are reluctant to use.
Use of the provisions of Senate Bill 1317 rather than a new parcel tax will be a factor in deciding who gets my vote in next year’s Trustee elections.
How say you, dear readers?
December 8th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Mr.Kyle you forgot to say that two board members voted against the parcel tax..Mr. Reynoso and Ms. Brunner. Whether you like Mr. Reynoso or not he gave a very moving set of comments regarding why a parcel tax is so very wrong for our community. I believe it was his commentary that swayed Ms. Brunner to vote nay.
December 8th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Hmmm, who is going to pay this tax?
My own opinion is truancy is not going to improve much even if the parents are prosecuted, which the school can’t do. The police have to do this. Are they behind this approach? One wonders why the law is not being enforced. Maybe John, you need to yell at the police too.
I think that for most of the truant parents, a trip to the cooler may simply result in them meeting old friends.
What a mess. It will get even worse in January.
December 8th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
All;
Qodrn is confused…
What must occur is to create a plan for HUSD Trustees to follow as a means of jacking up their level of courage in a war on truancy. I can only speculate, but perhaps they need a plan thrown at their feet so that they avoid any hint of racism in their struggle with the use of SB 1317.
Some may disagree with me on this particular idea… if so, perhaps they might suggest another path to successful completion of the first COMPLAINT FILINGS under SB 1317.
FIRST.
Select the single worst offender in each general racial group. One Caucasian, one Latino and one Afro American truant. File three actions simultaneously! Let the chips fall where they lay!
But grab the attention of all three groups simultaneously! Let hell fall on those who see it as a race based prejudicial action. Avoid the estimated cost of placing a parcel tax on a ballot, which alone will run up into a sum over $100,000.
SECOND; ADD AN ITEM TO THE AGENDA OF EACH BOARD MEETING WHICH IDENTIFIES THE PARTIES AGAINHST WHOM THE ACTIONS HAVE actually BEEN FILED. File three more such actions within 30 days of each court filing…. Keep the pipe line full ! Bring pressure upon the courts for prompt hearing dates. It loses effect if the court delays an action for unreasonable periods of time..
Attend the next board meeting, fill out a speaker’s card! Deliver your message personally, do not leave it up to your lazy neighbors… protect yourself from an unimaginative board of trustees.
Finlly for Qdrgn.. Tyhis is not the responsibility of the Hayward Police Dept. It id =s tyhe responsibility of the Trustees to push it’s it’s own legal represenjtatives into the needed acttions.
Parents of truants have no right to privacy in this matter any more than does a child molester.
As my Jesuit teacher in my senior High School year year, (a heavily involved Naval Chaplain of over 33 months in Pacific war service, without leave,) often stated…. “it’s a cruel world kiddies ! Toughen up!”
December 8th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
JOhn, could it be that your revered Jesuit who doubtless had endured horrors of war without respite passed on those same terrors and abuse to his boys like you. No doubt this explains how you have passed on the same abuse to others. Fits right in with the message of the Church: Abuse, corrupt, confuse and then provide safety from the law with the shield of the church all within a tax free environment. Good system. Similar to the Mafia.
December 8th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
The information about the budget is saddening for schools in CA. From what I have read many districts in CA are going to be in trouble.
Kathi and John, I was at the board meeting last night, and the board did NOT approve a parcel tax to placed on the ballot in 2012. Please explain.
December 8th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Where is Eric to settle these disputes?
Now, I am going have to watch the video.
Shucks.
December 8th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
mOORE;
i AMCONVINCEDYOU ARE MENTALLY UNBALANCED!
December 8th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Cynthia Rodsriguez….
Mr. Armas phoned with the same remark….I have agreedf to review the tapes befrore further perssing for use of SB 1317.
December 9th, 2011 at 1:49 am
I would like to speak personally with the new Superintendent of HUSD and let him know what’s really happening in the school district. Things are not going as good as he may think. I know he’s settling in, but he needs to go out and really see what’s going on with the schools. Students are not getting the much needed support/ assistance they need in our High Schools. I’ve had one child finish HUSD and with no help in going to college, but from outside sources at other school districts. He’s in is third year of college and thanks to the professors at the Peralta colleges who believed in him and assisted and supported him for two years. With the Peralta College counselors, professors and coaches support, my child is in his third year of college at Sacramento State University major in Art/Education and carrying a 3.0 gpa. A success story. I asked him if he would come back to Mt. Eden and his answer was NO, “I never receive any support from staff and the school and it was just not a positive environment when I was in high school. The teachers were horrible and unsupportive to students”. His words I never liked attending Mt. Eden High School at all and wish I could have attended Logan HS in Union City. Thanks to Logan HS for their coaches for support him during his two years at Merritt Community college. They were his backbone while attending Mt. Eden and I thank all of the staff at that school who believed in my child and his dreams of getting a college education. He is on a full Scholarship at Sac State due to Merritt colleges counselors, Logan HS coaches for track and field . The high school never had the resources/supportive counselors needed to make sure students succeed to the fullest. I have a 10th grader currently in one of the high schools and again the same issues are coming up. Things have not changed one bit. I’ve contacted Alameda County Office of Edcation many times regarding many issues at the high school. Get settled in Mr. Evans and I have things to talk to you about concerning the status of HUSD….It’s a serious matters when it has to do with our students and their educational experience. I’m very disappointed at how HUSD is going. It hasn’t change since 2006..Change needs to happen for HUSD! I’m not sure when it will. I only have two more years with my last child and we are done with HUSD…Hopefully, I will talk with you at the board meetings, in your office, a parent meeting, or at the school site before the school year ends. Welcome Mr. Evans and make crucial changes in our district…It’s much need to makes sure all students get a quality education.
December 9th, 2011 at 8:52 am
Cynthia,
As far as I remember, the parcel tax proposal, that is to attempt to place it on the ballot was passed. I guess it is time to review the tape of the meeting, if I can access it from the new format. I hope that you are correct Cynthia.
December 9th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Did you know that a 100 foot tall cell tower was approved by City of Hayward Planning Commission to be built next to Stonebrae elementary school?
Help us move this tower to a safer location, farther away from the school – sign the petition and tell your friends.
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-building-the-cell-tower-next-to-our-school
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Building-the-Cell-Tower-Next-to-Our-School/276928822353597
December 10th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Well, you can always watch the replays. Honestly, how do you get to the video? I miss the summaries of the meetings too.
I think without this stuff thumbs down to the new format.
December 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
John, all you need to do is to call your local Jesuits and place me under the control of the Inquisition. In the meantime, you and I are in agreement that it is time to insist that HUSD provide results without the benefit of additional taxation or bonds.
December 10th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Moore;
YOU FLATTER YOURSELF…. YOU ARE NOT TO RELY ON ME FOR THE Death bed call as aid to your problem. Make your own call.
Go back to the contribution in the blog I made last spring which described the full page add published by the Jewish Merchant of Columbus Ohio who recited the results of two pieces of reserach…. the one wh9ich ought 9ointerest you is that which dealt with sexual abuse of children by male and female ministers of your protestant faith… the second which you will not fully read is the statictical data pertaining to the cost savinghs to non-catholics provided through extensive hospital system offered to the public through variouus Catholi9c Religious CONGREGATIONS ON A NATION WIDE BASIS.
i’VE MET YOUR TYPE BEFRORE…. WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS IS THAT THEY EVENTUALLY JUST FADE AWAY…… LOST TO THE MEMORY OF A FEW GROUPS SUCH AS THE Masonic order.
In `1962 California was the last state in the Nation to remove laws which permitted ‘ad valorem’ taxes inposed uon parochial schools. It took three votes to accomjpish that and much of the success of the last vote was the result of the assistance of the Seventh Day Adventists. The opposition provoided by the Masonic lodege in 1932, 1952 and 1964 ( 62 ?) was financed in large part by the Masonic order out of New York.
So once again, I suggest it is time you practice your annual rum soaked drumj performancdes, banginjg away a few hours in ‘remberance’ of the 400 hundred year (+)Battle of the Boyne. If that fake minisTer Ian Paisley is still around….be sure to genuflect at his feet!
December 10th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
OCCUPY THE HAYWORD!
(Thanks for letting us camp out, Eric.)
I wish I had heard Reynoso’s speech. Too bad we can’t get the video of that.
Do you all see how our governments are reacting to the economic downturn to increase taxes and make laws that take away what freedom we have left? Washington passes the pain to California, California passes it to Alameda County and Hayward. Everyone passes it on to us.
HUSD wants to pass it on us too? Yes, let’s lock up the truants and their parents too. It’s only a modest proposal.
I agree with Qodrn. Wake up people!
Alexis de Toqueville had it right too.
December 12th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
John, how can the school district send people to jail for truancy?
All I could think of is they could lock em in the parent rooms, but I think that would be kidnapping.
I can’t send someone to jail for tresspassing on my property for example. I have to get the police etc. to do it.
December 12th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
To the Hayward Police Chief:
You have lots to do, but your folks really need to do a better job with abandoned cars in neighborhoods that have both apartments and single houses. I don’t appreciated walking in the rain because some idiot has been parked in front of my house for months on end.
December 12th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
qDERN’
sENATE BILL 1317 BECAME EFFECTIVE January
December 12th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Qdrn
Senate bill 1317 became effective UJanuary 1, 2011. It provides a legal procvess which enforces the legalo obligation of parents to educate their cyhildrenh…. their failure to perform as parents has coist the district in the last year a sum of around $8,000,000 in lost ADA money.
HUSD has recently considsered a parcel tax which would bring additional taxation upon your home… so that those neglectful parents will not have to worry about our problem… some feel that a free education comes without accompanying responsibilties…. whoich is ok just so long as you do not belly ache about the matter when you discover your loss…. right?
December 12th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Hello,
I think prosecution under Senate Bill 1317 has to come from the District Attorney’s office. It doesn’t make sense to me that the school district would be the prosecutor.
Students are considered chronically truant if they miss more than 10% of the school year or roughly 18 days with unexcused absences.
The one danger is that a student can be truant only if he or she is enrolled in school. Nowhere does the law address the fact that parents could just withdraw their child from the district and supposedly home school him or her or that they are moving to another school district. Once a child is no longer enrolled, there is no chance of prosecution under Senate Bill 1317. No student enrolled, no ADA.
Still, it may be worth the effort to try it out. What other districts have done so and what has been its effect? It would be a better argument if one can bring actual results from other school districts with huge truancy problems and whether prosecution actually improved school attendance.
December 12th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
ve to cope with truants emanating from low incomje housing….
Clue: They have 5 parollees living in their school district while in zip 94541, there were, as of October 2010, something like a mere 4,500 parolees AND PROBATIONERS, living within our older housing…..
It was in Pleasanton, while attending graduation of a Grandchild that I witnessed the dumb schools Supt, rise to address the assembly of Graduates inj the Amphitheater of Alameda Fairgrounds….
Standing in front of the mike he raised his right arm….. pointing to the wes6t and said: “are you not glad that your children did not have to attend schools on the other side of those hills…?”
That was followed by loud cheers, foot stomping, whistles, applause and other signs of approval….
Frankly the ada sum paid to Pleasanton ought be reduced and handed over to Hayward and OAKLAND…
December 13th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Qodrn, the city is now acting on the partnership principle. We the people have the responsibility to report a problem and they will try to solve it. But we have to do our part and report. I’ll bet if you report it, they’ll find a solution for the abandoned cars.
Using “Access Hayward” on the city’s website gives good results.
December 13th, 2011 at 8:57 am
Eric, very nice article on how the Hayward Volunteers are carrying on in the absence of their leader. I hope Donna’s family get involved; I think it would help with their shock at losing Donna.
December 13th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Will the school shut down the student buses to the schools now?
December 16th, 2011 at 2:29 am
Apparently nothing has gone on in Hayward since December 13th.
How sad.
December 16th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
QDRNH:
BREATHES THERE A BLOG SO DEAD……?
kURHI ASSIGBNED TO ANOTHER….?
December 17th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
Eric could be on vacation,or busy with other stuff.
Anyway, for some reason watched part of what I think was a planning committee meeting.
Seems like the planning people were all set to approve a massage parlour on Mission Blvd near B Street, when the owner of the building said he didn’t like the guy who was setting this all up in his own building.
So, the planning commission delayed the vote for further clarification.
Question: Does downtown Hayward need a massage parlour? Isn’t this the thing we have been trying to weed out of downtown Hayward? Or, thanks to the city’s ready to build philsophy that has lead to many abandoned business sites, taking what Hayward can get?
December 18th, 2011 at 10:57 am
All:
’twas the night before Christmas
and all through my jeans
I’ve searched and searched for the ways and the means.
Not a quarter was stirring, not even a bit
The greenbacks have left me, the pennies did quit!
Turn forward, turn forward oh time in thy flight
and make it tomorrow, just for this night.
NOTE TO YOUNGER READERS…. A BIT WAS ONE HALF OF A QUARTER …Two bits = $0.25 THERE WERE EIGHT BITS IN A DOLLAR…. AN EXPRESSION TAKEN FROM DAYS OF OLD ! (“PIECES OF EIGHT!”)
Merry Christmas to all…..except ‘occupy’ nuts!
December 19th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Who is Robert Solanga and why is he doing Eric’s job?
December 19th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Now we have katie Murphy and others covering what usually is Eric territory. Any body seen Eric?
December 20th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Merry Christmas to all!
December 20th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Happy Hanukkah! Tonight is the first night.
December 21st, 2011 at 7:02 am
All:
My Christmas ‘gift’ to you all….. is seen on the Opinion Pages of Oakland Tribune, Daily Reviews etc…
I attack the Occupy movement for what it is….a political condition known as anarchy!!!
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:58 am
If you want to look agenda and videos up on the Hayward school board web site, you can now resume doing it using for former methods. YAY!
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Thank you Mr. Kyle for your charitable, kindspirited comments at this time of the year. With gifts like that none of us need look for coal on our stockings.
Happy holidays to all.
December 24th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Merry Christmas to all.
December 24th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
The winter solstice has passed and today is a new moon. This seemed appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TPMoP01Sc
December 29th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Waiting for Hayward’s response to the ruling that the state can end redevelopment agencies. Hoping against hope that this might put an end to some of the this roadwork that keeps me sitting in traffic all the time.
Also, where does this leave our “ready to build” empty lots? Good grief.
December 30th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Qodrn, I suspect that the Hayward City Council will trumpet their decision to opt in to the Redvelopment Agencies and preserve their projects. But the rest of the money is gone and I suspect the only projects funded will continue.
Perhaps the city will finally allow residents to farm those empty lots instead of hassling folks that try to transform the earth.
December 30th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Moore;
….of course, those empty lots are free of toxics… right?
December 30th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
All;
When wAS THE LAST TIME WE SAW MR. KURHI’S ‘BY LINE’ ON ANYTHING IN THE REVIEW? IS HE GONE?
December 30th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Eric has an article on the Michele Le case today. What a mess that is.
December 31st, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Michael, you may be interested in the “Hayward Urban Agriculture Community visioning sessions” about the future of urban agriculture in the “greater Hayward area.” I think that includes you. They are co-sponsored by the COH and HARD. The third of four scheduled meetings will be at the HARD administrative offices on Jan 14th 10-noon.
Happy New Year everyone.
January 1st, 2012 at 11:52 am
Happy New Year!
Let’s hope the Mayans ran out of clay.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:59 pm
ALL;
What must occur is to create a plan for HUSD Trustees to follow, as a means of jacking up their level of courag,e in a war on truancy?
I can only speculate, but perhaps they need a plan thrown at their feet so that they avoid any hint of racism in their struggle with the use of SB 1317.
Some may disagree with me on this particular idea… If that is so, perhaps they might suggest another path to successful completion of the first COMPLAINT FILINGS under SB 1317.
FIRST.
Select the single worst offender in each general racial group. One Caucasian, one Latino and one Afro American truant. File three actions simultaneously! Let the chips fall where they lay!
Grab the attention of all three groups simultaneously! Let hell fall on those who see it as a race based prejudicial action. Avoid the estimated cost of placing a parcel tax on a ballot, which alone will run up into a sum ABOVE $100,000.
SECOND.
ADD AN ITEM TO THE AGENDA OF EACH BOARD MEETING WHICH IDENTIFIES THE PARTIES AGAINST WHOM THE ACTIONS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FILED. File three more such actions within 30 days of each court filing…. Keep the pipe line full! Bring pressure upon the courts for prompt hearing dates. It loses effect if the court delays an action for unreasonable periods of time.
THIRD.
Attend the next board meeting, fill out a speaker’s card! Deliver your message personally, do not leave it up to your lazy neighbors… Protect yourself from an unimaginative board of trustees.
January 8th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Have not heard a peep out of the New Superintendent.
Or Eric, for that matter.
I think the death of this blog is near.
January 10th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Qodrn;
What a blessing that wilol be!
January 12th, 2012 at 8:56 am
Picked up several copies of the Hayward News in the Kaiser ER. This is not a bad little publication. However, the local news content is not very high in the issues that I read. I expect this will change with time. Other aspects of the paper were very nice. And, since they are free, this is quite a deal.
They come out on Friday; I will now go and get one to use for my missing Monday paper. YAY.
January 12th, 2012 at 8:58 am
Enjoyed Eric’s tweets on the school board meeting last night. He seems to go home about 9 PM before the meeting is over. I am not saying Eric has to stay there, but it would be lovely if the whole meeting could be covered.
Eric, you could watch the end on TV and keep on tweeting. Just a thought.
January 13th, 2012 at 12:31 am
Yes, the real Lissa Taylor. It still amazes me, though it should not, that I made the decision to walk away from a Principalship, as well as, a career that I held for 12+ years with the Hayward Unified School District, after being harassed, beyond measure by distrct adminstration and retaliated against by the same, for protecting the Educational Rights of Continuation High School students, informing parents of their rights, speaking truth to power, and for following the EdCode , AKA, California Law Relating to Minors. Following the Education Code was and is listed on my Teaching as well as Adminstrative Services Credential. It saddens me that some of the same people who lied to parent, railroaded students, and padded their own retirement, are still employed with HUSD! Check October, 2010, Board minutes… Where is my resignation, Olga Pineda’s is there and I resigned before she did. I wrote my letter of resignation, but, mysteriously it never made it into the board minutes, why? Because I dared to tell the truth. Yes, my name is, Lissa Taylor, yes I was the former Principal of Brenkwitz High School, and no, I am no longer employeed in the area of Education. Please check the minutes, you won’t see my resignation(dated, Oct,2010) because the, ” then” Superintendent Duran and my former supervisor Chien Wu-Fernandez and other district administration made sure my resignation never made it into the Board minutes because it would have pointed out the harassment and retaliation I endured to force me out, nothing ever happened to the District Admiistration, but the Brenkwitz has changed. It changed back into a dumping ground, for students who were not wanted at the, Traditional High Schools because they wanted to raise the test scores and get rid of undesirable students. I was a Principal, but I still have teachers who are my friends and I am aware of the “Dumping Ground” the continuation high school has become. Educational Malpractice at it finest. Have any questions email me or my phone number is 925-640-5326, (my real number). I must say all three of my children (grown) children were educated in the HUSD. Hayward Community, check the schools, the budgets, the district administration(especially during the board meeting)and the laws. Before anyone asks why I didn’t report this? I did and have the letter from the U.S. Department of Education to prove it. Again my phone number is above, my email:TAYLOR2LA@comcast.net.
January 13th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Yes, the real Lissa Taylor. It still amazes me, though it should not, that I made the decision to walk away from a Principalship, as well as, a career that I held for 12+ years with the Hayward Unified School District, after being harassed, beyond measure by distrct adminstration and retaliated against by the same, for protecting the Educational Rights of Continuation High School students, informing parents of their rights, speaking truth to power, and for following the EdCode , AKA, California Law Relating to Minors. Following the Education Code was and is listed on my Teaching as well as Adminstrative Services Credential. It saddens me that some of the same people who lied to parent, railroaded students, and padded their own retirement, are still employed with HUSD! Check October, 2010, Board minutes… Where is my resignation, Olga Pineda’s is there and I resigned before she did. I wrote my letter of resignation, but, mysteriously it never made it into the board minutes, why? Because I dared to tell the truth. Yes, my name is, Lissa Taylor, yes I was the former Principal of Brenkwitz High School, and no, I am no longer employeed in the area of Education. Please check the minutes, you won’t see my resignation(dated, Oct,2010) because the, ” then” Superintendent Duran and my former supervisor Chien Wu-Fernandez and other district administration made sure my resignation never made it into the Board minutes because it would have pointed out the harassment and retaliation I endured to force me out, nothing ever happened to the District Admiistration, but the Brenkwitz has changed. It changed back into a dumping ground, for students who were not wanted at the, Traditional High Schools because they wanted to raise the test scores and get rid of undesirable students. I was a Principal, but I still have teachers who are my friends and I am aware of the “Dumping Ground” the continuation high school has become. Educational Malpractice at it finest. Have any questions email me or my phone number is 925-640-5326, (my real number). I must say all three of my children (grown) children were educated in the HUSD. Hayward Community, check the schools, the budgets, the district administration(especially during the board meeting)and the laws. Before anyone asks why I didn’t report this? I did and have the letter from the U.S. Department of Education to prove it. Again my phone number is above, my email:TAYLOR2LA@comcast.net.
January 13th, 2012 at 9:03 am
Amazing
January 13th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
I’m sorry to say that the Hayward News has printed it’s last edition. Apparently there were not enough advertisers. Too bad.
January 16th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
That is sad to hear. Back to the Monday morning blues I guess.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Lissa Taylor. Are you able to post these letters you have on a website or on the blog?
And why are the comments repeated twice?
January 17th, 2012 at 8:03 am
All:
This submission raises the count to 161 submissions under tyhis subjecttitle….. which is another assurance thatthe blog will soon die of it’s own weight!
Scrolling down to itme count 161 takes a long toime…… thus we ask the question … why bother?
January 17th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
@cynthia my daughter, a former Hayward student, has been following and commenting on the blog for over a year. She didn’t think I would actually post my truth. Hence the two postings.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Oh and yes I can post them, but not on this blog. Board minutes are a matter of public record.