Board Chairwoman Betty Burney acknowledged that the minutes wouldn’t inform someone not at the meeting that the board had decided not to renew Pratt-Dannals’ contract but said the law didn’t require such detail.
“The minutes do not have to be verbatim and we listed the major facets of that meeting,” she said.
Um firing the superintendent wasn’t a major facet of the meeting? What were they talking about then? Ending third grade, having the district go bookless, what could have been a bigger facet than firing the superintendent?
Board member W.C. Gentry, who took the minutes, doubled down on Burney’s whopper and agreed with Burney that the board complied with the law.
“It’s my understanding that we’re to take minutes that describe the general subject matter of the meeting and that’s what’s I did,” said Gentry, a lawyer. “We’ve been talking with the superintendent for weeks about evaluations and succession and certainly his contract is part of that.
So was firing him part of the general subject matter of that meeting or not?
Why the cover up? Why not just say, hey we blew it and we should have taken better notes. Why is it so hard for these people to admit mistakes?
Some of above was taken from the Times Union article: http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/479262/topher-sanders/2012-02-29/few-details-meeting-where-duval-school-board-decided
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