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School Board Third Seat: Who Wants the Job?
The deadline for applying for the open Madison Central School Board seat is Monday (tomorrow!) at 4 p.m. Has anyone filed an application yet, or even thought about it? If you're thinking about it the forms are here in PDF and Word formats. Since this is a public office, I invite all applicants to send a copy of their applications to the Madville Times for the voters to see and compare.
The board has an executive session for "personnel matters" on the agenda (item #29) for tomorrow night's meeting -- expect a closed-door review of the applications and perhaps an appointment. Elected board members Jay Niedert and Tammy Jo Zingmark take office in July; if the board follows past precedent, the person they appoint will take the oath at the July meeting as well. Unless they hold a special meeting between now and then, tomorrow night's executive session is the only chance they'll have to discuss the appointment.
Trimester Review: Who Said What?
Also on the school board agenda Monday night is Principal Knowlton's presentation of the findings of the trimester review committee (item #12). Does anyone know who served on the committee, when they met, or what they discussed?
County Poor Farm: Bids, Anyone?
I noted yesterday that the county is putting nine acres of the old poor farm on Lake Madison back up for sale. The only interested bidder so far, wealthy Sioux Falls developer Ted Thoms, was too cheap to bite on the original opening price of $112,000, so we're trying again... at $100,000. Anyone out there thinking of bidding? How much do you think nine acres of Lake Madison property is worth? Maybe we should put the land on eBay, do an online auction. Submit your bids here! I'll pass them on the county.
The Predictability of the Sioux Falls City Council is painful to watch
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Former City Councilor Big T wrote an excellent letter to the editor about
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The county poor farm excess land south of Herkimer Pond doesn't look like much now, but extend a sewer line, water line and remove those old volunteer trees from the gravel pit and you'll have a million dollar development property in which folks could build homes or condos near the water's edge. It would be a great investment for anyone who wants to earn a lot more than CD rates right now. Lake Madison land value is growing at 15% growth per year. A smart buyer would snap it up and lease it back to Ted Thoms for a handsome return on investment.
ReplyDeleteThe seat on the board should be offered first to the person who came in next in the voting numbers. That is the only thing that makes sense. To give it to someone else just because he/she has been on the board before or because he/she is someone the board themselves likes is just plain wrong. I'm not advocating for any certain person here, I'm just saying this is how it should be handled in any election at any time if there are more candidates who ran who actually wanted a spot on a board.
ReplyDeleteI will be interested in the trimester report too. Since no other school system in the state is using it, there have to be, and are, problems with it that have just been ignored by the powers that be in Madison. Ten years is way past the length that this experiment should have lasted.
The county needs to hold onto this prime real estate for a few more years.
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