A little disappointing. Not all bad news, however. Superintendent Hruby put forth a prioritized listing on 80+ items in approximate order of importance, ranked tier A, B or C, and actually put some funding sources next them! Most importantly, some of the funding was from dollars already in the present accounts!! Terrific!
So the meeting was for the committees to further prioritize the priorities. One member asked a question about the meaning/scope of one of the expensive projects. It was a question which needed to be asked, but should have been asked 4 to 6 months ago. One member asked about the financial information related to budget/reserve requirements. The answer provided by Hruby was patently wrong and misleading.
The meeting didn’t seem to actually accomplish much of anything, so at the bitter end, the committee asked Hruby what they were to do next? Really? The answer was to take the information they had just reviewed to the February Board meeting for review and prioritization. That was the purpose of this meeting! Oh well.
The 80 items are at a cost of over $40 million. They’re just now taking $18.5 million with the approved Working Capital Bond sales that will cost us $30 million to repay. Therefore, you can count on them ‘needing’ a bit more of Our Tax Money!
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