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Resident questions budget increases, asset sales and assistant superintendent role at board meeting
Summary
A public commenter raised questions about the tentative budget (including a reported 9.9% tax increase and possible sale of district properties) and the status of an assistant superintendent after a prior no vote on their contract; the board recorded the concerns and offered some procedural clarifications.
Crystal Whitaker, identified in the meeting as "from Southtown Server," used her allotted public-comment time to challenge prior statements and to ask pointed questions about district budgeting and personnel decisions. She asked whether the district has a policy for reassigning or demoting an assistant superintendent after a no vote on a contract and questioned apparent inconsistencies between the board's public votes and actions taken by the county interim superintendent related to a tentative budget submission.
"I'm looking at the $170,000, where that could have gone," Whitaker said while raising concerns about fundraising and what she described as possible liquidation of district assets including 1144 Hooper Ave and the bus department. The board clerk responded with a statutory timeline for filling a vacancy and members discussed process; board members later emphasized the need to provide better advertising and allow applicants to cure incomplete packets regarding the Beechwood vacancy.
