What is HRMD? How would we know if it is followed

Did anyone catch this one?
At the Board meeting of 8/21/07, after the vote for the principal of Gary Adult school, there was a bit of action on the floor. Ms. Valdes brought up a concern about hiring the right people for the school . Ms. Griffin chimed in with a concern also. There was some bantering back and forth at some point Ms. Edgecomb asserted that they could not have found a better person for the job than the person that was just voted on to be principal.

Both Valdes and Griffin said their concerns were not about the new principal. They alluded to concerns about the hiring process. Then Dan Valdez jumped in to clarify things. He basically said that the HRMD was followed as it always has been.

Ms. Valdes again said that hiring policies and procedures should be followed at all times.

Sooooo, the question is, why would two Board members be concerned about the hiring practices? How does the public know if the District is following the HRMD?

Where is our investigative agency to protect the public, if the Board can not?