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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Agenda Meeting Wrapup

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Posted by Save The School at 8:20 AM
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10 comments:

Kevin L said...

I think Robin Reithmeyer used the phrase "unethical and immoral" last night. She hit it right on the head. Hellmann started out the night by not even having the common business decency, courtesy, or professionalism to openly accept or reject any of the feasibility RFPs from December. He really didn't see a need to even respond to the bidders. Instead he took the time to blast Joe Kemp for bringing it up "a second time" because it was rejected once. It's not as though Hellmann's done the same thing.

Hellmann also has a plan for the feasibility study. It's secret though. He doesn't want to discuss it.

Then the arguing started when Kemp mentioned the secret meeting. They had planned responses already set up. Marlys Mihok was just playing with the puppy. Al Radosti said they were just old friends. Brenda Worob was downright indignant telling them that gatherings at her house is no one else's business.

They knew what they were doing and skirted the requirements of the law. I dont care why they were gathered at all, but in the midst of firing the solicitor, firing the superintendent, closing schools, defeasing bonds and farming out students, no one with an ounce of intelligence thinks they were there swapping recipies. Especially when they excluded the "troublemakers" Reithmeyer, Kemp, and Frankenfield.

What I do know is that now they are elected officials and they need to avoid even the appearance of improper behavior. What they did was completely in character and completely wrong.

I'm really disappointed in one member in particular though. For all of the previous talk of honesty and openness from this member, they stonewalled right along with the rest.

April 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Ken said...

Sooner or later someone is going to slip up and say something like, "I thought we already decided that at the meeting ... oh yeah." *blush*.

And once THAT'S on tape, there will be no taking it back.

April 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Jon said...

You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

April 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Alleged secret meetings that excluded certain board members? That's speculation! Funny how some though can't remember the facts. For example, remember when two school board members who opposed the new school were openly and blatantly forbidden from attending executive sessions that included discussion about the proposed new school? If there was a reason there certainly was no due process or dilligence. Come on, you remember, it was't that long ago. The bloggers had no problem with that. I wonder why? Seems also that the solicitor had no problem with that. Wonder why? Now do you understand why a new solicitor is in order?

April 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Save The School said...

So, if all your friends were jumping off a bridge, you would do it too? Imitating stupidity is never a good way to go through life.

April 21, 2008 at 5:24 AM
Anonymous said...

for someone that clams "this little blog" is too full of sarcasm and cowards....he sure doth read it (and post) often!

April 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Jon said...

I went looking back at some older posts & didn't see the 4/20 one here by anonmymous.

Anyway, I do remember when two school board members who opposed the new school were not permitted to attend an executive session that included discussion about the proposed new school. If I'm not mistaken, there was a reason, actually quite a good reason, for this. These 2 board members (Brenda Worob and Al Radosti) were parties, along with about 40 others, to a lawsuit filed against the board/district for issuance of the bonds to build the new K-12 school. In fact, Brenda Worob was the primary named plaintiff.

I believe the executive session was to discuss the board/district's legal defense against the lawsuit. It made perfect sense to exclude them from such sessions - plaintiffs in a lawsuit aren't entitled to sit in on defense strategy discussions. In my opinion, Worob and Radosti should have thought about the possible consequences of sitting board members filing lawsuits against the very body on which they serve - before they signed on. Alas, my problem with them and their board allies is that they usually don't think things through before acting.

So no, I didn't have a problem with them being barred from these sessions, and I don't see that as justifying the need for a new solicitor. I would have thought him biased and incompetent if he did allow them into these sessions. In fact, Brenda & Al should have recused themselves. Heck, Marcia Clark & Christopher Darden weren't allowed into the Johnny Cochrane "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit" strategy meetings, were they? And relax, just like OJ, it all turned out OK for Brenda & Al's team, didn't it?

So let's stop trying to rewrite history and compare rotten apples to sweet, juicy, ripe oranges, shall we?

April 28, 2008 at 7:41 PM
Save The School said...

Is that what this was for?

April 28, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Jon said...

STS,

Yes, that was the PA Supreme Court's refusal to hear their appeal of the Commonwealth Court's ruling against them, which in turn was the result of the PDE's repudiation of their claims. So, all told, their lawsuits were smacked down on 3 levels. But it's possible to go 0-3 and still prevail, if your legal frivolity delays things until you can get some "like-minded individuals" into office. But, as Robin Reithmeyer has found out, if you turn out to be not so like-minded, you get your name crossed off the campaign tee-shirt - with permanent marker.

April 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Ken said...

Sadly, it will be bad for Robin politically. She has lost support of her base, and has her name smack dab on legal documents along with the likes of WOROB, HELLMAN, HUGHES, RADOSTI, MYHOCK, etc. making it difficult, if not impossible for her to build a new base.

You make your bed...

April 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM

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