First, at long last, the link to the Board of Education 2008-2008 Operating Budget. This past week the BOE has met to discuss this budget and due to the confluence of events I was unable to attend. The buzz following those meetings has not gone unnoticed. And that buzz says that the lack of a finance director that reports to the Superintendent or the BOE will cause this budget to be voted down somewhere along the line.

The fact that the budget is 200 pages, shows that the lack of a CFO level executive is harming the process. Corda doesn’t get it quite fully, but his defense of the incompetence that Opdahl has wrought is the biggest liability he has.

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Most of the time change is a good thing, the status quo does need to be shaken and stirred every once in a while. But sometimes change for changes sake becomes too much of a good thing, which is where we are at in the latest developments on the Historical Commission. Last year, bringing in 4 new commissioners was right in theory and ended up wrong in execution. The commission had been mired in the minutia of the ongoing curator troubles. Instead of sweeping out the curator along with introducing new commissioners, we got new commissioners and a retrenchment of the legacy of one really bad curator.

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