Comments on: Rep. George Miller supports charter bill

By: MDUSDude

MDUSDude — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:29:41 +0000

#36 Sure. OK.
#38 Thanks for allowing me my opinion.
#39 Which budget are you reading?

#40 Nice Wendy! Goodness, where do I begin? I’ll tell you what: I’m going to “turn a blind eye” to all of those statements that, coming from you, are rife with hypocrisy. I hope you can appreciate that. I will say though that your assertion that bond oversight committees are commonly populated with “stooges” is absent of any objective rationale.

It are these types of characterizations and hasty reactions that needlessly foster a misinformed, speculative and anxious public.

#43 An apologist for the regime? Laughable! See my response to #40, specifically, “speculative and anxious public.”

By: Wait a minute

Wait a minute — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:34:15 +0000

MDUSDude is obviously another apologist for the regime that is responsible for the problems. The MDUSD has become a well known a bad joke within the education establishment and with many of its own citizens. The disrepute, incompetence, and outright lack of ethics and corruption that now pervades the district’s leadership is a serious problem.

Alicia Minyen is without a doubt the most qualified member of the oversight committee as a CPA and fraud investigator. The committee was stacked by the district with folks not fulfilling the fiduciary duties and Alicia appears to be the only one actually performing her duties of real oversight.

Rolen and the district is still denying/delaying Alicia’s request for the Lease documents and I have a feeling they have something to hide. Just like they didn’t want it to be known that before the bond and any contracts were signed they were going to steer the Solar to Sherry’s Whitmarsh’s employeer Chevron and in fact the Solar applications had already been signed off by a Chevron Engineer!

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:28:40 +0000

Minyen said she still has not received the leases that she asked for, so she has submitted another Public Records Act request.
The public, and committee, deserves to know what the district acquired through the lease purchase agreements it paid off with Measure C funds.

By: Number Eight

Number Eight — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:16:02 +0000

Gotta wonder who would serve on an Oversight Committee if they cannot get the information that’s required to do the job?

Gotta wonder why MDUSD buys expensive technology systems if they cannot easily email information to committee members?

By: Wendy Lack

Wendy Lack — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:11:50 +0000

MDUSDude:

Hate to break it to you, but it is common for citizen bond oversight committees to be populated by stooges for the employer and the (typically) sole taxpayer-organization rep to be in the minority in efforts to do a credible job of oversight.

In the case of MDUSD, it appears that the sycophants on the CBOC have a long history of “going along-getting along” with the district.

Wearing blinders to reality and “turning a blind eye” tends to get in the way of performing an oversight role.

Thank goodness for committed individuals such as Minyen who have the courage and willingness to seek the truth, even if it ruffles feathers. That’s the job of bond oversight committees — though in this case, if Minyen were to wait until the committee as a whole reached consensus regarding records requests, I’d bet that NO-ZERO-NADA info requests would ever be made.

The facts indicate that the committee as a whole is not interested in performing its oversight role or finding out the truth. Hence Minyen is left with no other option than to do her duty as a committee member as she sees fit to do so — alone, if necessary.

By: g

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:31:17 +0000

MDUSD Dude: Give just about any truly caring and independent district this $300,000,000.00 Education budget and I guarantee they could actually educate 32,000 kids, greatly increase the graduation rate and donate to their first year in college.

I believe this District (and too many school districts these days)and the entire politicized school hierarchy are little more than self-employment machines. “Companies” dedicated to themselves and their benefit alone, while hiding behind kids, dedicated teachers, families and education.

By: Just J

Just J — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:47:55 +0000

MDUSD dude, I am not even going to go there with you. If you are happy with what is going on and are happy with the way your tax dollars are spent then you are entitled to your opinion.

By: Mt Diablo Jester

Mt Diablo Jester — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:18:20 +0000

Go to youtube and check out “MDUSD Parody”.

Might be some foreshadowing of tonight’s meeting.

By: Another MDUSD Mom

Another MDUSD Mom — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:35:03 +0000

MDUSD Dude,
I agree with you, MDUSD is not a business because if it were a “Real World Business” it would have to offer a quality product and good customer service to stay in business. It would have to answer to its shareholders and would do so with respect in order to cultivate a long-term relationship. It would have the latitude to make changes to what it offered its customers because it would know that a quality product makes for a successful business not just the ability raise prices. A successful company understands that good customer service and employee relations is driven by a good company culture.
You are most certainly right… MDUSD is not like a “Real World Company.”

Someday maybe MDUSD will have leadership that stops whining and blaming and begins to address those things they can and should change.

By: MDUSD Board Watcher

MDUSD Board Watcher — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:58:55 +0000

Just got done reading the MDUSD evaluation of the Charter Petition. Shocker! Gary has found a way to deny the Charter.

Too bad a dictator runs this district and other board members are afraid to stand up to him.

Take it to the county board Claytonites, I have it on good word that they will be approving the application just like they did with the Flex academy.