Read this article about the 1st-Grader who shot his teacher in Virginia.
Read what the teachers said.
How much of that is going on right here in Richland 2?
https://www.aol.com/news/anger-grows-virginia-city-where-195809849.html
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Special-Called Board Meeting, Th., Jan. 19
The starting time for the special-called meeting is announced as 5:20PM EST. The meeting will be broadcast at https://livestream.com/richland2/events/10746230
The agenda has not yet been published but will be by 5:20PM EST today.
My guess is that the board will appoint an Acting Superintendent.
[Edited 1/18/2023 5:13PM]
The agenda provides the purpose of the Executive Session: "Receipt of Legal Advice Regarding Acting/Interim Superintendent".
Let's hope the motion can be made clearly, correctly and briefly, "I move that we enter Executive Session for the purpose of receiving legal advice regarding an Acting/Interim superintendent."
How big will the technical problem be, if they do more than "receive" legal advice? What if they discuss structuring and offering a position? The lawyer won't tell them whom to appoint as Acting/Interim Superintendent, how to conduct a search for the successor to Baron Davis, and all those details. Does all that fit neatly under "receiving legal advice" or is the Board entering a minefield by limiting the purpose of the Executive Session?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
IG Report Committee Meeting 1/18/2023
The Special Committee on the I.G.'s Report is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, January 17, 2023, at 6:00PM.
The announcement, which appeared only on the school board agenda webpage, fails to announce the location - a FOIA requirement.
Members of the Special Committee are Richland 2 board members Tamika Washington (committee chair), Niki Porter and Joe Trapp.
Too bad that the Committee meeting will not be livestreamed. The public is more than interested. I wonder if the committee tried to get it livestreamed.
The public is reminded that you can record the meeting; it is a meeting of a committee of a public body. You could even publish it on Facebook LIVE, if you want to.
[Updated 1/18/2023, 12:06PM]
1/17/2023 Opening
Opening of this afternoon's board meeting?
Pitiful.
Give the Chair a big whip!
At 10:15PM the Executive Session is still in progress. There are 265 viewers who are hanging on, waiting to hear nothing when the meeting is over.
How many people are there in person?
Board is Correct to Understand Supt. Contract
Another school board meeting will be held for the purpose of receiving legal advice regarding the superintendent's contract. That meeting is this afternoon, Jan. 17, at 4:30PM.
And why not?
Is there some reason that the Board should not understand his multi-year contract? It represents a $1,000,000 obligation of the District - three-and-one-half years of employment (School Years 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026) plus a severance package of 18 months' pay.
What company with $1 Billion in Assets and a $300,000,000+ Annual Budget would not want its board to understand the contract with its CEO or keyman?
Former board member and former chair James Manning waved a red flag at media earlier this month, when he surmised that the board was about to fire Baron Davis.
Now Hamilton R. Grant used yesterday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration to defend Davis. See his post on Facebook on January 16.
Grant was "with" Terrance Cummings and Chris Leevy Johnson on Facebook when he published a long post linking Dr. King and Davis. Grant referred to Davis as "stellar", "nationally awarded", "beloved, homegrown and proven exemplary leader". Grant also wrote, "Davis has earned the respect of educators and academicians across the world."
Come on, man.
Grant asked, "... is a stellar leader as Davis next on the preverbal [sic] chopping block?"
What is a "preverbal" chopping block?
It is the Board's right and duty to understand Davis' contract.
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Jan. 17th Special Called Meeting - 4:30PM
Sugestions to Board Members,
At the beginning of the meeting, tell any of the public gathered that this is a Special-Called meeting and there won't be any public statement after the executive session. They are welcome to wait, but they should not expect a statement.
Set a deadline of 6:00PM for adjourning.
Show up with your written questions on 3x5 cards. Write your initials on the cards.
Appoint a time-keeper.
In Executive Session, take the first five minutes to group your questions and tape them to the wall.
Give the attorney 5-10 minutes (or less).
Then ask your questions. Limit the attorney to 60 seconds.
Wind up at 5:45PM and determine the next steps.
At 6:00PM (or earlier), return to open session, move to adjourn, and go home.
Meal Plan Discussion
The Meal Plan got a lot of discussion at the school board meeting on January 10, 2023. The discussion starts at 4:53:26 on https://livestream.com/richland2/events/10733970/videos/234531948
Every parent and every taxpayer should watch this discussion.
There are three levels of payers for meals. There are Free Meals. There are Reduced-Price Meals. There are Full-Pay Meals.
If the student does not qualify for Free Meals or Reduced-Price Meals, then he (she) pays for his meals. Or he should.
Except now he (she) doesn't, because there is a Moratorium on charging for meals.
How did that happen? How could that happen? Did the prior school board authorize that? Did it have the right, the authority, the power to give free meals to those who are supposed to be paying for them?
Listen carefully to Supt. Davis' comments about the Moratorium. Somebody should try to figure out what he really said. He uses the "royal We" when referring to who decided.
WHO DECIDED ON THE MORATORIUM, which has caused the debt to increase from $70,000 to OVER $340,000 and to be headed for $500,000?
If you want to know, watch the presentation. And then ask specific questions that cannot be answered with "We ...". Who? the past board? The Superintendent?
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