Where most people look forward to the first signs of spring, the citizens of eastern Racine County have begun to dread April. Spring does not only bring daffodils and baseball, but the return of the now annual RUSD referenda to exceed the spending caps.
The Journal Times, in its usual fair and balanced style, has covered this in today’s paper but has failed (again) to mention that at last week’s board meeting the motion to have the referendum on June 6th was not initially approved. On a 3-4 vote, (with Janet Days and Armin Clobes absent) the motion failed. David Issacson, Brian Dey, Julie McKenna and Randall Bangs voted against having the referendum on June 6th.
In a leadership style that has become familiar to the voters of Racine County, outgoing School Board President, Bill Schalk brought the motion back for a second vote. Only two board members questioned the legality of bringing forth a failed motion a second time in the same meeting. These same 2 board members, Dey and McKenna voted no again, but the second motion passed on a vote of 5-2 to have the referendum on June 6th.
Tonight is round 2; hopefully Days and Clobes will be there to vote. I also hope that I am one of many public citizens at the meeting tonight. It gets pretty lonely sitting all by myself!
Read the JT article at: http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?blogid=49
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