Special-Called Board Meeting - (this) Thursday, Jan. 5

The Richland 2 school board has announced a Special-Called Meeting for (this) Thursday, Jan. 5, at 5:30PM at R2i2.

Two items will be discussed in Executive Session: 1) the superintendent's contract and 2) superintendent board relations.

Of course, "in Executive Session" means you won't hear the good stuff.

After the Executive Session ends and the board re-convenes in open session, the board will vote on action to be taken, if any.

The board will then discuss the Inspector General's Report. This should be more than interesting.

The I.G. was critical of the (past) board, but many of the issues involved matters that the board either didn't know about or chose to keep quiet about. The only way that the board could have known about problems was if the superintendent had informed them.

The new board should be grilling the superintendent about the extent to which, if any, he informed any members of the then-majority on the board about the problems. 

Board Chair Lindsay Agostini should appoint a special committee to dig into the I.G.'s Report. Not more than two board members, plus members of the public, staff, teachers. The I.G.'s Report shouldn't consume all the time of the board, but it shouldn't get just left-overs.