May 11, 2000
by Stewart Lilker
| When the Board's bond
proposition failed, I told Mr. Grover and the rest of the school board
that it was a bad plan that didn’t address the needs of the district or
the students, otherwise it would have passed. Mr. Grover responded,
saying, "If you can come up with a better plan, why don’t
you?" I told him that I don’t want to come up with a plan myself,
but I would be more than willing to sit down with a group of concerned,
dedicated, and talented community members and the board to help them
devise a plan that would be acceptable and benefit everyone. Board VP Al
Renken, the real leader of the board, said, "We don’t want your
help."
The Better Plan Committee (BPC) was formed to develop an alternative plan. As the Board had developed most of the financial numbers, the (BPC) did nothing more that redistribute them. The BPC added full day kindergarten, something that the board has refused to do, elevators, and the health and safety related items that the Board had removed. The BPC truly thinks that this is a Better Plan and the Committee asks you to examine it carefully, before you vote on May 16th.
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