Sunday, August 29, 2010

EMSD#63 School Board has gone underground…

It appears that East Maine School District #63’s (EMSD#63) Board Members have removed their pictures, phone numbers and email address from the district website and have replaced it with this login

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I’m not sure why they would choose to remove themselves from the site, except this faint-hearted act does make it more difficult for taxpayers, constituents or stakeholders to express their views.  So as a public service, I am displaying EMSD#63’s Board President and Vice President names and email addresses on this post.

EMSD#63 School Board Leaders

Name Title Email Address
Ms. Wojtkiewicz President jwojtkiewicz@sd63board.org
Mr. Jekot VP jjekot@sd63board.org

Maybe some of you can shame our feckless board into returning this vital information to the district’s website.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG!!!!!!

WTF??????

ParkRidgeUnderground said...

According to the District's policy, it appears all communications to Board Members are to be filtered through the District Superintendent.

It also appears that somebody forgot to let the Board Members know they are publicly elected representatives of the people and taxpayers of EMSD#63.

It is sickeningly amusing how eagerly some elected officials will seek to insulate themselves from the very people they are supposed to represent.

Kenneth Butterly said...

Anon: August 29, 2010 3:46 PM,

Thank you for helping me expand my blogsite. Every time someone like you places finger to key, you reinforce my observation as stated in “It’s true, you just can’t fix stupid.”

Kenneth Butterly said...

Dear ParkRidgeUnderground,

Yes, that is the District’s policy.

Specifically, I believe it s Policy Id: 2:140 Communications to and from the Board.

What makes the removal of Board Member information so interesting to me is that it fly’s in the face of Board President Jane Wojtkiewicz’s oft-stated Board policies regarding Board/District/Stakeholder communication. Policies by the way, some on this Board voted on.

For example: Section 8 Community Relations – Policy Id: 8.10 Public Relations

Removal of this information is a recent event.

The obvious question is why?