Eric H. Rude
Dear editor:
Welcome to 2009. Barack Obama is elected and hoping to help the U.S. to embrace some changes, the town is working on changing the budget, the weather is starting to change, and I am wondering if there is going to be any changes with the local public board of education.
Mr. Dave Kircher has been asking over the past several months, as a spokesperson on behalf of taxpayers, who is accountable to the board of education and to whom this board is accountable to?
We know who the board is accountable to: the taxpayer.
His letters have been showing that the trust bestowed upon the board of education has been misplaced as the Board has not held the managers and departments heads accountable for the security of the funds entrusted to them.
Apparently this does not seem clear to those involved.
In the real world, Conrad Black, and some of the managers of Enron, are still in jail—put there by the courts and the shareholders. If there is a problem in the system, who does the house cleaning? From what I’ve been reading in the letters to the editor, it appears that the word game has been continuing with the board and the public.
Sometimes I feel like my intelligence is being insulted since it still appears that there are no changes to the system, or no one seems accountable for what has taken place and everything is hush-hush.
The board has some extremely large amounts of funds to work with every year, and also will be building a new school here. Who is going to manage the funds for this new project?
How many times does Mr. Kircher have to ask on behalf of the taxpayers? The books were, or are not, checked every month or every two months.
Mr. Kircher has asked who is driving the “bus?” I’m led to believe the board drives the bus on behalf of the taxpayers, not the department managers. Staff and teachers are hired and fired every day, who hires and fires the managers?
When is the board going to take corrective action—and inform the public of its actions.
In this day and age, the use of electronics is supposed to create efficiencies, not extra jobs.
Thanks for reading and I encourage others to keep following up on this subject.
(Signed),
Eric H. Rude
Fort Frances, Ont.
