Erika, thanks for taking the time to engage on here!
I have seen all of Tom’s reporting about the previous administration, and like many in the community, I am deeply concerned and hoping that we will still learn more. (I am reading malfeasance as a legal reference to illegality, and I am aware that we may still not yet have heard the end…
Erika, thanks for taking the time to engage on here!
I have seen all of Tom’s reporting about the previous administration, and like many in the community, I am deeply concerned and hoping that we will still learn more. (I am reading malfeasance as a legal reference to illegality, and I am aware that we may still not yet have heard the end of this.)
However, our district had to remove $13.3 million dollars in spending the coming year, and we have to find an additional $15 million dollars for the year after that. We knew about this for well over a decade. We are right about where we were projected to be (running $25 million in budget deficits) back when the 2017 referendum was passed if no further actions were taken. This is a failure not just of this current board but also of several previous boards. Hard decisions kept being kicked down the road, and now they can't be kicked down the road any more.
Even as we, the public, are still waiting to hear more about actions taken or being taken to further address alleged malfeasance, the primary reason we are here is that the district knew we had severe structural deficits, and they did not remain focused on proactively addressing those. The lack of a clear, proactive, long-range vision and plan (embodied in a rigorous strategic planning and assessment process) is the main reason we are where are right now, acknowledging that there are deeply troubling things that occurred and hopefully we the taxpayers will learn more.
Erika, thanks for taking the time to engage on here!
I have seen all of Tom’s reporting about the previous administration, and like many in the community, I am deeply concerned and hoping that we will still learn more. (I am reading malfeasance as a legal reference to illegality, and I am aware that we may still not yet have heard the end of this.)
However, our district had to remove $13.3 million dollars in spending the coming year, and we have to find an additional $15 million dollars for the year after that. We knew about this for well over a decade. We are right about where we were projected to be (running $25 million in budget deficits) back when the 2017 referendum was passed if no further actions were taken. This is a failure not just of this current board but also of several previous boards. Hard decisions kept being kicked down the road, and now they can't be kicked down the road any more.
Even as we, the public, are still waiting to hear more about actions taken or being taken to further address alleged malfeasance, the primary reason we are here is that the district knew we had severe structural deficits, and they did not remain focused on proactively addressing those. The lack of a clear, proactive, long-range vision and plan (embodied in a rigorous strategic planning and assessment process) is the main reason we are where are right now, acknowledging that there are deeply troubling things that occurred and hopefully we the taxpayers will learn more.