{"id":2038,"date":"2009-04-28T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2009-04-28T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:52:46","slug":"busy-day-committee-of-the-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Busy day Committee of the whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this post is about my quick interview with a KDLH reporter about tonight&#8217;s Committee of the Whole meeting. She had called me just before the Zoning Board met and I thought 1PM would give me plenty of time to get back home. I was still chomping on a McDonald&#8217;s snack wrap when she knocked on the door.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short interview on my sunny back patio. She wasn&#8217;t very familiar with the issues so I gave her some background on tape which she&#8217;ll have a dickens of a time pulling a sound bite out of. <\/p>\n<p>I basically told her that we were happy to make the presentation to show that we had given a lot of thought to how to fix up our schools for $100 million less than the Red Plan and honor the 75 words of the petition that our plan is based upon. She asked about the <em>alphabet <\/em> plans the District talks about B and D (I&#8217;m not sure where C went) and I told her that although our Plan B had been rechristened D by the District it was entirely consistent with the petition language. I explained that because it was stretched out over ten years some portions of it might be dropped so that taxpayers could enjoy some refunds.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if our current Board asks any questions of our Plan tonight. I wrote up answers to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2016\">Move Forward Duluth&#8217;s seven questions <\/a>but I don&#8217;t think our presenter tonight Art Johnston was very interested in them. He&#8217;s a smart cookie and will enjoy answering any questions thrown his way by the School Board. He thought the MFD questions were leading, weak and based on faulty assumptions just like I did. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I told the Reporter that as far as I was concerned the Board&#8217;s listening to us after a year&#8217;s delay and a month before they cram five years worth of construction into three. I told her it suggests that the Board is only listening to us because they Attorney General of Minnesota expects them to go through the motions.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK. I&#8217;m looking forward to the presentation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, this post is about my quick interview with a KDLH reporter about tonight&#8217;s Committee of the Whole meeting. She had called me just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}