Dear Editor:
Read in (Tuesdays) Iola Register, where the USD 257 Board suddenly discovered available class space at one of our grade schools.
Having attended that school as a child, I thought it was a single floor with a basement and now an add on trailer. Therefore, you can imagine my thoughts when this space was discovered after 66 years, as best as I can remember.
Now, I know the school board has been keeping control over what and how they are planning on to surprise and overwhelm the taxpayers with all the bad and irreparable problems that our schools have, but a sudden appearance of more space in a known structure, well that is just spooky.
Maybe all that incurable and unsightly fungus that was attributed to McKinley Grade School in the last attempted bond issue may have created more space by eating out the walls and hallways, and as with any acidic and spore borne virus, created not a new space but one that was previously being occupied by structure and electrical apparatus.
We need to send a sample of that slime to the Allen County Hospital as they are suffering from space in their Conference Room for visitors or interested citizens unless you mind sitting like a guru and watch the feeding frenzy commence and continue while some business gets discussed; but, I digress.
In mode of high anticipation, waiting with bated breath for the disclosed new model and tax dollar requirement to create this secret project of Dan and Staceys.
My real purpose in writing this monologue of satire is because our city and Board of Education continue to meet on the same nites at the same time so as to make an interested citizen have to chose which function is more important to attend except if that meeting might occur on the nite of a holiday, as next Memorial Day. Then, it interferes with THEIR personal time and we just cant have that.
Because of different fiscal years, the School Board can only change its meeting agenda in the period of July 1, whereas the City is Jan. 1, and as with the City prior to their Jan. 1 deadline, I will ask the Board of Education to change their meeting nites from the same nites as the City meets. It can still be on Monday nites at 6; just on the first and third Mondays. Ive heard the excuses and that is all they are excuses, the same as Humboldts conflict of their city and school. This is not, in my opinion, in the best interests of the peoples who you swore to serve as our representative, and I guarantee this old procedural routine of not respecting the wishes and desires of the public, who you are supposed to represent, is wearing really thin. If you arent salty enough to figure out why your bond issues have and will fail, start looking at your hidden agenda in your hidden meetings.
Respectfully,
Larry H. Walden,
Iola, Kan.
