{"id":18140,"date":"2016-10-13T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2016-10-13T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T01:35:05","slug":"loren-martell-explains-all-whew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18140","title":{"rendered":"Loren Martell explains all&#8230;..thank goodness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told you Loren was having a hard time giving up his watch of the Duluth School Board. He&#8217;s back this week with <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/12\/8101_isd_709_once_again_unequal_representation\">a review of Monday&#8217;s two school board meetings<\/a>. I linked to the video in <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18093\">this post<\/a> and the views are up to 125. That&#8217;s 120 more people than sat in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Its gratifying to me to read what I said extemporaneously at that meeting. I outlined some pretty complicated shenanigans that I hope can be followed in print and Loren dutifully captured a portion of my much longer discourse with some additions to make references of mine more clear. It will test your comprehension to see if you can follow my run <em>on and on <\/em>sentences. <strong>BTW<\/strong> &#8211; I <em>italicize<\/em> Loren&#8217;s clarifications and put three examples I mentioned behind parentheses with numerals (1), (2), (3):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member Welty\u2019s public speech during the HR meeting outlined the concerns the minority have about the heavy-handedness of the majority Board members and administration: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the Superintendent a year ago about how my first two years (on the Board) were just awful. And while this year has been an improvement, I still get lots of surprises. And perhaps this is not the Superintendent\u2019s fault, but for instance, (1) today, after abiding by the policy that we, as a Board, passed earlier in the year&#8211;that three Board members could add something to the agenda&#8211; <em>(Policy 203.5, which states: \u201cUpon written request of three Board members, delivered to the Chair no later than the Friday before an agenda-setting session, an item will be placed on the agenda\u2026)<\/em> I find that there is a resolution that defies all logic. <em>(A resolution)<\/em> that apparently gives the four-person majority the chance to prevent us from putting something on the agenda. Now, it would be my observation that something like that would be a red flag, and somebody who is good at working with people\u2026might be able to talk somebody&#8211;like our Chair&#8211;out of that kind of foolishness. (2) Getting a contract, without any heads-up; that is eight months premature; is foolishness. (3) Having four&#8211;million dollar and multi-million dollar offers for the sale of buildings causing us all kinds of difficulties&#8211;and having <em>(those offers)<\/em> hidden from the minority, and in fact, as the Chair said: <em>(hidden from) <\/em> all six of the rest of us on the Board, is not the kind of transparency that I think a Superintendent would want to encourage if he wanted to have a school board that was a unified group of people.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you Loren was having a hard time giving up his watch of the Duluth School Board. He&#8217;s back this week with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140"}],"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=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18150,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions\/18150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}