Comments on: MDUSD board to discuss Clayton Valley HS charter petition Tuesday

By: g

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:56:08 +0000

Although it is in essence Richard’s committee, looking back at Whitmarsh’s now silent Blog, she apparently was in charge of putting together the BAC. On 4/29/11 she stated that she had received 10 applications for the 17 openings.

Maybe she could enlighten us on who, what, when and where–and Why so secretive?

By: g

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:26:38 +0000

Theresa, I have also looked for BAC info. Richards’ Fiscal Dept. site shows a link for BAC meetings, but it is a “dead” link. What good is that?

On old minutes prior to 2009 you could at least find Budget Committee meetings and BAC members listed as being in attendance. The only “maybe constant” that I can find is that several from 2002 and 2010 Measure C Committees were/are also on BAC and some also on PAC. Some people are on the same two or three committees at the same time. In fact, I can’t find a Committee that Ferrante has NOT been on except maybe PAC. Can’t help but wonder; are they really outstanding citizens, or certain shoe-ins when committees are being built because they are good at looking the other way when things aren’t quite right, good at leading others to follow the directions of the Staff, and good at redirecting discussions when others disagree with Staff?

Whatever the case, there is just too much going on in the District that is not available to the public on the website (since Lawrence came in).

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:53:54 +0000

It’s interesting that the district doesn’t list Budget Advisory Committee meetings on its website under “upcoming meetings:” http://www.mdusd.org/Pages/default.aspx.
Yet, it lists the Parent Advisory Council, board meetings and Community Advisory Committee meetings.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend. However, it would make sense for the committee to discuss the CVHS conversion impact on the budget.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:56:04 +0000

Theresa are you going to go to the Budget Advisory Meeting? (thursday) You’d assume they’d be talking about such an “important” matter at a budget meeting would you not?

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:11:50 +0000

Don’t play their game — turn it over to the First Amendment Coalition who can get attorney fees for winning a public records request.

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:53:47 +0000

They said to follow up with questions, so that’s what I’ll have to do.

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:49:16 +0000

@TH #138 — A blank page with “Raw Teacher Salary Data” — reminiscent of Rosemary Woods and the famous missing tape recordings she erased. Accidental I am “sure”. Why does the Board let them get away with this crap.

By: Wait a Minute

Wait a Minute — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:23:45 +0000

Well as they say in the business, garbage in=garbage out!

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:57:39 +0000

It looks like the district just made calculations based on ADA, without looking at actual costs per site.
There is a spreadsheet titled “Raw Teacher Salary Data,” which is blank.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:53:42 +0000

Well I suspect it has something to do with Bryan Richards needing an entire weekend to “cook the books”.

I can imagine them all sitting around a table desperately trying to come up with a way to obfuscate the true costs of running CVHS.

I’d bet in a true apples to apples comparison, that the district comes out ahead if they let CVHS go. The real problem here: Eberhart’s Ego