At the School Board meeting on 4/9/19, the School Board had to vote on budget transfers of approx $2 million from various accounts into the "computer equipment" account. I questioned this transfer and was informed that the money would be used toward the replacement of 18,000 Chromebooks which would be occurring every year. I discovered that the Chromebooks are on a 4 year replacement cycle. I had no knowledge of this and after the meeting I realized that I need to be more knowledgeable about the contracts of which the School Board has entered into agreements through the Superintendent. Yesterday I asked the Superintendent for the information and was told that he would not provide it to me unless the full Board approved the request. I then instructed him to provide it to me under the Freedom of Information Act. Now he says I will be charged for providing the information. It should be noted that on the city side, they publish all of their expenditures through an online checkbook: https://openspending.vbgov.com/#!/year/All%20Years/explore/1/fund I have no idea why it would take 100 hours of staff time to provide me with the contract documents which I have requested. See my e-mail correspondence with the Superintendent and reply by the School Board chair. We will be receiving a workshop on the 30th regarding a "technology update" but I have no knowledge that the Board will be provided contract details at that meeting, nor do I anticipate we will.
Christine Jurczak
4/12/2019 05:47:56 am
Open the books!!
M. Smith
4/14/2019 02:51:30 am
In what way does this help the students of VBCPS. This level of politically motivated (good luck with those obvious future aspirations) only serve to make the division look bad and takes precious time away from things that are important like school safety, instruction, and student social and emotional well being. Comments are closed.
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