Dean Rubine, who operates the ORCSD Clean Slate blog, has asked us to post the following:
Upset that David Taylor was voted onto the ABC? It would have been nice to be able to say so at the school board meeting when it happened. But you can't. The school board, many of whose members campaigned on "listening", eliminated the second round of public comments, the one at the end of the meeting. I'm asking people to sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/orcsd-comments/ to restore these public comments. If recent attendance is any indication, it usually wouldn't add more than 10 minutes to the meeting.
Why didn't I just post this on my on blog? I did. (http://orcsdcleanslate.blogspot.com/2012/05/petition-to-restore-public-comments-at.html) Before I did there were 17 signatures. Now there are 18. Thanks, honey.
Full disclosure: David Taylor is the author of the petition.
Dean Rubine, Lee
Thanks, Tom.
ReplyDeleteHere's a clickable link to the petition.
- Dean
Thanks, Dean. Now there are 20 signatures.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we have forgotten that this is a meeting held in public and NOT a public meeting. Speak to the items on the agenda or write to the School Board directly. This board was elected by the members of the community to make decisions on their behalf. Let them do their work.
ReplyDeleteThe board added a second public comments at the meeting a couple of days ago. I don't think they've committed to doing it permanently, but it's a start.
ReplyDelete- Dean
Great news, Dean. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.
ReplyDelete--Tom