Good grief. Profile in courage, Turner: "I knew nothing. I only pay attention to things under my purview!!!"
She has been with the District since August 2021. She was in a senior level of authority as of August 2022. The $40 million estimate for the school was all over the news and the lease certificates were issued in March 2022.
The only way it could "not be clear to me at the time that the budget was significantly above the original estimate" would be either:
1) She was so out of touch with the big initiatives happening at the district that she was blithely ignorant of the figures.
or
2) She has trouble seeing that $65 million is "significantly above" $40 million.
Both explanations are troubling.
I work in an organization larger than District 65 as a middle manager and I know the broad scopes relating to our organizations' major initiatives. It may not be in my immediate "purview," but if we were expanding and building a major new facility I would know ballpark costs, etc...Some info like that is closely held. And those cases, just the office gossip would give me a sense of costs and what is going on.
An analogy would be the Ryan Field rebuild. I have a neighbor who works at Northwestern, but way far removed from athletics and facilities, but he has strong opinions on the Ryan Field project and can cite the costs, etc... It is not under this guy's purview, but it is happening at his place of employment so he is interested in how it may impact the organization as a whole.
In the case of the D65 new school all of these costs were widely reported in the news. The fact that Turner would be so incurious about what is going on is troubling. In our organization, the people who rise up the ranks internally are folks with natural curiosity who learn about stuff that isn't in their "purview."
We're stuck with her, so whatever. It is hard to believe that she is the best qualified candidate we could get. But that blame goes squarely on the board.
Good grief. Profile in courage, Turner: "I knew nothing. I only pay attention to things under my purview!!!"
She has been with the District since August 2021. She was in a senior level of authority as of August 2022. The $40 million estimate for the school was all over the news and the lease certificates were issued in March 2022.
The only way it could "not be clear to me at the time that the budget was significantly above the original estimate" would be either:
1) She was so out of touch with the big initiatives happening at the district that she was blithely ignorant of the figures.
or
2) She has trouble seeing that $65 million is "significantly above" $40 million.
Both explanations are troubling.
I work in an organization larger than District 65 as a middle manager and I know the broad scopes relating to our organizations' major initiatives. It may not be in my immediate "purview," but if we were expanding and building a major new facility I would know ballpark costs, etc...Some info like that is closely held. And those cases, just the office gossip would give me a sense of costs and what is going on.
An analogy would be the Ryan Field rebuild. I have a neighbor who works at Northwestern, but way far removed from athletics and facilities, but he has strong opinions on the Ryan Field project and can cite the costs, etc... It is not under this guy's purview, but it is happening at his place of employment so he is interested in how it may impact the organization as a whole.
In the case of the D65 new school all of these costs were widely reported in the news. The fact that Turner would be so incurious about what is going on is troubling. In our organization, the people who rise up the ranks internally are folks with natural curiosity who learn about stuff that isn't in their "purview."
We're stuck with her, so whatever. It is hard to believe that she is the best qualified candidate we could get. But that blame goes squarely on the board.