…and putting noses out of joint unnecessarily.
In catching up with last week’s Business Committee meeting on youtube I saw how our board majority chose to let our guests from Many Rivers Academy cool their heels rather than invite them to speak to us at the beginning of the meeting.
That’s the sort of attitude which got Donald Trump elected by folks who were tired of the partisan, old ways of Washington D.C.
I think we will be having future discussions about how exactly Robert’s Rules of Parliamentary Procedure work. I suspect Art Johnston is right although my long practice has been that our Board committee meetings have not been saddled with it. That’s a matter of precedence which I have never minded but which would fall to Roberts. Of course, it was obvious that those wishing to employ Roberts were in the minority at this meeting and would have lost the vote.
Oh and I emailed the Board before I left for Topeka requesting that they allow Many River’s spokespeople jump to the beginning of the meeting. I guess I don’t count much either:
Supt, and fellow board members,
I have had long standing plans to be in Missouri and Kansas this week to do some research on my family and participate in a memorial to my Grandfather. As a consequence I will not be able to attend this week’s Board Committee meetings. I will be reviewing them before our meeting next week on youtube to prepare.
I took up Mark Niedermier’s invitation to tour Many Rivers last week and am pleased that he and other representatives of Many Rivers will be able to answer questions of the Board at today’s Business Committee. I see that the agenda places this agenda item at the end of the meeting.
I hope that we will take advantage of our precedent to bring these guests closer to the beginning of the meeting rather than have them wait through hours of other business. They have already sat through last month’s meeting to no affect.
Like you I will be watching the nation’s future unfold this week but from a different vantage point. Kansas is Trump country. Fortunately, the University of Kansas carries National Public Radio.
