Education

More closed session meetings - this has to be the most secretive the board has ever been . . . and they haven't been great, it's getting worse.

Thanks to Mary Jo Walters who attended the Airport meeting and took these notes and photos! Airport paid homeowners $2,000 for easements years ago saying they are ok with the noise . . . end of story?

Imagine if there was a committee where school board members, county board supervisors, city alderpersons and the community came together to discuss how to improve the lives of young people in Madison and Dane County. How powerful could that be? And why did former Mayor Paul Soglin and former School Superintendent Jen Cheatam, along with now School Board President Gloria Reyes keep trying to reign in that committee? Now that they are free . . . what could they be?

Here's what's legally, publicly noticed . . . which I'm betting is not everything that it should be.

Interviewing consulting firms Superintendent Search.

Metro passes and agreements, school kicks off, behavioral health contracts and more.

From the MMSD legal notice. Hiring a Consulting firm to work with the permanent Superintendent Search Process and 2 (or 3?) other meetings

Based on the weekly legal notice . . . one meeting. Do you really believe that? Given that if any two board members are meeting, they are negative quorum and it should be noticed.

2 meetings today.

1 meeting with a meet and greet in advance.

2 meetings, including choosing the person to fill Mary Burke's seat on the school board and more closed session.

So, the board is meeting tonight but there is no public input. Andy Olsen wrote a great piece that is essentially what I would say if given the opportunity, so I thought I'd share it with you all. I'll blog more tomorrow about all the crap going on in the background . . .