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Residents ask Taos Municipal Schools board for clearer charter-school plan ahead of bond vote
Summary
Two community members urged the Taos Municipal Schools board to provide written plans and clearer outreach to charter schools and to release audit findings before the Nov. 4 bond election.
Two residents urged the Taos Municipal Schools Board of Education on Oct. 25 to clarify how a proposed bond would treat state charter schools, to publish draft language and to release a pending audit before the Nov. 4 election.
Michelle Hunt, speaking during public comment, said there has been “no timely follow through on the part of the superintendent and the board member leaders of the bond committee,” and that “there has not been a written draft yet of any type of amendment to the resolution to include charters.” She told the board she wanted “transparent inclusion that can happen in a timely manner prior to November 4.”
Another resident, who identified herself as a taxpayer and parent, said the board has a history she described as “mismanagement of funds” and asked officials to answer whether charter schools were included in prior bonds. “So did Taos Municipal School break the law the Lascaux bond included charters, or are they willing to break it now to get the taxpayer money by including state charters?” she said, adding the question “must be clarified to the taxpayers before the election.”
The speakers urged the board to correct what they said were inaccurate statements in a district advertisement and to meet with charter leaders. Hunt said she had received some email contact from the superintendent but that no concrete draft or meeting invitations had been shared with charter-school directors.
Board members did not respond with a detailed timetable or a vote during public comment. The board’s agenda later moved into presentations, campus reports and business items; later in the meeting the board entered executive session to discuss limited personnel matters and a status update on a special audit under state law (see separate item). The transcript does not show the board presenting an amended bond resolution or publishing a charter-inclusion draft on Oct. 25.
The residents’ comments came during the public-comment portion of the regular board meeting, not during a formal bond-resolution hearing. The speakers asked the board to provide written documents and to resolve legal questions about whether state charter schools can participate before voters decide on Nov. 4.
