{"id":10157,"date":"2013-10-19T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2017-02-26T00:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T05:34:17","slug":"a-zenith-treasure-trove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10157","title":{"rendered":"A Zenith Twofer Treasure Trove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Zenith had a treasure trove of School District items. The first was <a href=\"http:\/\/zenithcitynews.com\/100813\/letters2.htm\">a letter<\/a> by Loren Martell. I was almost embarrassed for the current school board member who managed to beat me in 2006 and Loren in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein Richard Thomas wrote what was essentially a follow up to his story last month. This one was called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/zenithcitynews.com\/100813\/voice.htm\">The Red Plan isn&#8217;t dead; its not even in the past<\/a>.&#8221; My door knocking over the past month has confirmed the truth of this title.<\/p>\n<p>A friend from the Twin Cities alerted me to the Zenith. He&#8217;d already read it online at his Mother&#8217;s urging. It was written by Richard Thomas who recalled the following School Board dialogue. My friend said it was &#8220;hilarious.&#8221; Its between Laura Condon and Gary Glass and here&#8217;s Richard Thomas on the set up and exchange&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On December 15, 2009, Nilsen&#8217;s last board meeting of her previous term\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthen\u00e2\u20ac\u201cBoard Member Gary Glass questioned two items in which money was transferred into and out of the general fund. &#8220;And you two ladies who wrote an editorial about me, saying I&#8217;m absolutely wrong, this shows how wrong I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glass was talking to Members Mary Cameron and Ann Wasson, who had criticized him in a Duluth News Tribune op-ed the year before, saying he &#8220;suggested the operating levy could be used to fund the district&#8217;s long-range facilities plan. Glass was absolutely wrong about that and about other items.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glass went on to have the following exchange with Board Member Laura Condon:<\/p>\n<p>Condon: Resolution B-12-09-2707, authorizing transfer of funds from the general fund to the debt service fund, regarding financing of the Long-Range Facilities Plan. Do I have to read from this or can I just move?<\/p>\n<p>Glass: Did you read the title?<\/p>\n<p>Condon: Yes. &#8220;Authorizing transfer of funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glass: From the general fund to the debt service fund regarding the financing of the [Red Plan].<\/p>\n<p>Condon: Yup, I did that.<\/p>\n<p>Glass: [The title of this resolution] is the second miracle to this board, because we were told in the past that we cannot transfer money from the general fund to the debt service fund.<\/p>\n<p>Condon: Well, Member Glass, this is the season of miracles.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted an outburst of laughter, arguably at the expense of serious budget discussion, but, to be fair, the board was in the midst of a grueling four-hour meeting, lengthened by Glass&#8217;s many questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story then leads to Nancy Nilsen who was on my tail in September&#8217;s primary election results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Zenith had a treasure trove of School District items. The first was a letter by Loren Martell. I was almost embarrassed for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19949,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}