AWOL: Saudargas, Jackson, Westholder and Mitchell.

1 comment May 22nd, 2009

Attention, attention: this is a missing persons alert. Have you seen these School Board members: Alice Saudargas, Jeanne Westholder, Harmon Mitchell and Lisa Jackson?

Incredibly, the Rockford School Board couldn’t muster a quorum for a hearing on Dr. Patrick Hardy’s Sigma Beta charter school proposal. So, the hearing may have no effect at all on the Sigma Beta charter process. Hardy had done his homework and the gallery at the School Board headquarters was packed with supporters. But because there were only three board members there — President David Kelley, Bob Evans and Jude Makulec — neither the board nor administrators could ask questions.

This is pathetic. I mean, I know board members don’t get paid, but still, they ran because they wanted to serve on the board of the largest and by far most expensive government in Winnebago County.

This simply will not do. Mitchell. Saudargas. Jackson. Westholder. Where were you? What’s your excuse? Were any of you afraid to show up because this charter is perhaps more controversial than others?