tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post1310937900538866521..comments2024-03-28T10:56:38.635-07:00Comments on The Emeryville Tattler: Reply to School Board Member Affeldt's LetterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-31927289519302526232013-03-28T00:07:14.753-07:002013-03-28T00:07:14.753-07:00Brian Carver, PLEASE run for the BOARD. We have pe...Brian Carver, PLEASE run for the BOARD. We have people who need to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-26140103918472025782013-02-24T10:42:15.168-08:002013-02-24T10:42:15.168-08:00In one sense your right that the time for this con...In one sense your right that the time for this conversation has passed. The Board refused to have this conversation before they voted to sell the Series D CAB and abandon Anna Yates. Now when it's too late they're willing (at least John Affeldt is).<br />Still, I say there's nothing like government accountability. It's better for the people to know about this after it's too late than to never know about it at all. For if the people can see how thier government is broken, then they can move to fix it in the future. Perhaps heads may someday roll and even though it would be too late for Anna Yates, there would be a cleansing effect for the people...that would help our school district.Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-72380778448288737852013-02-24T10:26:59.263-08:002013-02-24T10:26:59.263-08:00Yes, it is too late to stop the tearing down of th...Yes, it is too late to stop the tearing down of the high school. Mr Carver suggests that it may not be too late to save the elementary school, Anna Yates. I personally think the only way that could happen is by quickly replacing the School Board with a more reasonable one. <br />Incidentally, not many residents have called on the Board to save the high school. I agree it is prudent to replace that school with a new one for about $50 million (plus financing). It's the $70 million to rebuild Anna Yates added onto that cost is what I think is unnecessary and irresponsible. We could rebuild the high school and not have to use a CAB to do it...the loan could be paid off in less than 25 years. It would be affordable, prudent and legal...unlike the CAB they're selling.Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-48175145648334170662013-02-24T10:09:11.792-08:002013-02-24T10:09:11.792-08:00Only the Emeryville School Board could call a bond...Only the Emeryville School Board could call a bond "prudent and measured" that leaves no room for error, no "buffer" as Brian Carver puts it. He's right people: they're going to break their promise...their hand will be forced by inevitable events. Then they'll claim that it was due to those forces beyond their control. <br />And Mr Carver's observation about how the current Board's action will force the future Board to say they have "no choice" and how they must sell Anna Yates or hand it over to a competing charter school is ominous and likely real.<br /><br />Hats off to Brian Carver for an excellent original letter and response.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-45129865291573435552013-02-24T09:19:21.501-08:002013-02-24T09:19:21.501-08:00And don't even get me started on the fact that...And don't even get me started on the fact that due to all of this the pool will be closed for the next 2 summers. That has hit my kids the hardest. <br />I think all the speculation about why Cheryl Webb abruptly left board can now be put to rest. There were many unpopular decisions that were coming down the road that she clearly wanted separation from...I can't blame her. <br />So when are we going to start talking about the upcoming teacher layoffs that EUSD CBO Mark Bonnett warned were coming this year at the first PTO meeting in August? There are still some whales to fry here people.Ronald Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-69032662822384470422013-02-24T08:34:36.988-08:002013-02-24T08:34:36.988-08:00The collateral damage has already occured in our h...The collateral damage has already occured in our household. We are tapped in both the financial and holistic sense. I feel this conversation is a little late and $70 million short. The focus in our household has moved to working towards things that directly affect our children and their immediate classroom. The ECCL community philosophy was lost in the lack of the kind of community engagement Brian writes about; where they listened to the concerns and ideas of all stakeholders instead of carfeully guiding us through explainations of the Nexus Plan. But here we are with the High school closed, the middle school kids languishing in an Elementary school facility and the high school kids in a rented facility. The time for this conversation is over.Ronald Henrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-45796860523408131452013-02-24T08:28:03.965-08:002013-02-24T08:28:03.965-08:00Is it too late to stop the tear down of our High S...Is it too late to stop the tear down of our High School, which is bought and paid for? The destruction should be stopped. We gotta be "nuts" to go through with it. Why can't we just accept the fact that we are just members of a small, but proud, Community? And, we already possess all the Basics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-76278050575704047202013-02-24T07:24:38.104-08:002013-02-24T07:24:38.104-08:00i wholeheartedly agree with brian carver. let'...i wholeheartedly agree with brian carver. let's not forget measure a, the school parcel tax, approved by voters in 2003 and extended to the year 2019. this measure is now being assessed at $.15 per sq. foot to "strengthen and improve academic curriculum and educational programs in the following essential areas: mathematics, science, literacy, music and visual and performing arts."<br /><br />further, it is supposed to "strengthen and improve programs and services in the following areas which contribute to student academic success: school libraries, wellness initiative,counseling, tutoring and mentoring, school site technology support, english language development."<br /><br />aren't these the very same goals that measure j was intended to do? apparently not, when the school board approves a $17 million capital appreciation bond without voter approval.<br /><br />and although brian carver states that the assessed valuation cannot exceed $60.00 per $100,000 assessed value mandated by state law, every document i have read concerning measure j states "ESTIMATED at $60.00 per $100,000."<br /><br />i want to thank brian for writing his opinion in a manner that non attorneys and non financiers can understand.<br /><br />by the way, where are the annual reports that the measure a oversight committee issues?<br /> shirley enomotonoreply@blogger.com