Cleverly nestled in the puff piece of how the Board is addressing financial woes, there is this nugget:
"I'd eliminate the School Board meetings altogether before I'd eliminate the Math Homework Hotline," said board member Candy Olson, after learning at a recent workshop that the district is paying about $250 per hour to broadcast the meetings live with two replays. "This is not the best use of our resources at this time."
I am sure every one is as eager as I am to hear Ms. Falario's response to this suggestion to eliminate the broadcast of the School Board meetings. After all, what better medium to operate one's PR. program than live action, and Board member Olson is suggesting putting a speed bump right in the middle of the roadway to transparency. Lest we forget the past, here is what Ms. Falario recently proposed:
"I'm tired of hearing what a bad job we're doing," she said. "We do a great job, and people need to have more access to what we're doing."
More cynical people might try to think past Ms. Olson's idea of cancelling the publicized Board meetings as an attempt to limit "white propaganda", the kind that is mentioned here, with a hint that the Board meetings may "produce undesirable effects":
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
As we stand by our tumtum trees and wait for their vorpal blades to go snicker snack, you don't suppose that these two politicians would come up with a scheme to take the money they save from publicizing the Board meetings and apply that money to some type of PR program, do you?
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