Even Brian Hicks knows its wrong. [See Wednesday's P&C.]
Spending $76,000 on renovations to the administrative offices of the Charleston County School District? Why not, Superintendent McGinley would say. After all, we have the money just lying around unspent.
Meanwhile, it becomes obvious that CCSD Board chair Chris Fraser doesn't know Roberts Rules of Order or how to follow them or doesn't care about them because he takes his marching orders from elsewhere.
Oh, that's right. He's the voice of the Metro Chamber of Commerce, I forgot.
Why should anyone care what shenanigans were pulled to get the item back on the agenda for a second vote? What we should care about is who voted for this deaf-and-dumb-to-the-taxpayers decision. I'll list them for you.
Chris Fraser, Chair 452-9245
Elisabeth Ann Oplinger 406-6685
Craig Ascue 884-6862
Cindy Bohn Coats 529-2457
Chris Collins 813-0616
Toya Hampton Green 723-7831
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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Good luck on getting a response. It was Toya Hampton-Green who said she didn't need to respond to constituents and Ann Oplinger bragged how she enjoys handling her e-mails. She just goes,"delete-delete-delete". How nice!
McGinley is now promoting one of her interns to a new full time administrative position when her internship expires. Is this another done deal or will the board have something to say about adding more staff to the super's office as board members are faced with more budget cuts?
The bloated bureaucracy continues to grow unchecked. "Coaches" who simply order teachers to do more with less (Most of the coaches never have had any documented successes with true at-risk students.), interns, administrative assistants, consultants, associates this-and-that, etc, etc, etc. It goes on and on and on and on...Solution: Close underachieving schools, wipe the low test scores off those schools' report cards, farm those students out, and increase the mediocrity. At least they're getting more money for more building "renovations." I was afraid they would have to do more with less, too. Just like the teachers. Can't have that, can we, Dr. M?
Start cutting the waste with some serious cuts in the administration. NJM's personal staff is a disgrace. It is really her entourage. Three senior staff members are running a communications office that doesn't communicate. Two more staff members to oversee diversity initiatives that haven't been initiated. Add in an Associate Superintendent for the Promise Neighborhood that is only a promise. That's half a million dollars right there. Start by cutting that.
She also has a personal attorney whose primary job is to fend off the public. The annual cost of this in house legal staff: over $300,000.
Yet they still out source real legal work to private law firms to do things like sue the state over charter schools. The cost of hiring additional lawyers: unknown, probably another million.
In this economy, if a roof is leaking in a public school gym somewhere in Charleston County, the super shouldn't be padding the Taj Mahal. The only surplus I can see is in the stupidity of the school district administrators. Cut the waste starting at the top.
Michael Bobby can tell the truth. First it was $140,000. The board said "No". CCSD's Bill Lewis starts the work any way. Then Ricky Bobby says they will cut back on the project if the board approves $75,000. The board says "Yes". At the most recent board meetings (Feb 14), Bobby Michaels says they have spent $82,000 so far. Sure it is only $6,000 over, but add a few more zeros and it starts to look like CCSD's entire fiscal management plan.
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