This is going to generate some serious pissed-off taxpayer sentiment, and I don’t care about “timelines” or “deadlines” — having a meeting on a Sunday with little to no advanced notice by anyone in the local media (I blame myself for not monitoring as much as I should over in MISD) as to why they were meeting and for what purpose.
The Waxahachie Daily Light reports that MISD’s school board voted for an expenditure of $8,020.50 for a windscreen for the baseball field.
As a former MISD school board candidate, I am infuriated at holding a Sunday board meeting. This is no different from when Waxahachie ISD held early morning meetings on Saturday to avoid scrutiny (I was tipped off about the meeting beforehand, which startled some board members when I showed up.)
Let me guess: the MISD board meeting was held at First Baptist Church after Sunday services? I figure that would be an ideal location since a majority of trustees were either members of the church or still are (I’m using sarcastic humor, don’t get all offended.)
MISD approves windscreen
By REBECCA HERTZ
Daily Light staff writerPublished: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:48 AM CSTMIDLOTHIAN — The Midlothian ISD board of trustees unanimously passed a motion to construct a windscreen on the outfield wall at the baseball field at a cost of $8,020.50 at a special meeting Sunday.
“The problem we ran into was the one that was up there was so rotted and had been there so long they really couldn’t salvage it,” board president Phil Seay said.
Funding for the project will come from the undesignated fund balance; the cost includes the purchase and installation of the windscreen.
More: http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2010/01/11/news/doc4b4b639c12352186682941.txt
