George Laase

Re “Message to the School  Board: Reduce Salaries of  the Top Managers”
 
In his comments of last Thursday about cutting the salaries of administrators in the School District, Robert Gray should have been more careful in what he demanded in District management cuts.

First, let me reiterate what I have said before, that I am all for all our School District’s teachers in the classroom, but much less so for the union now representing them.

I was introduced to Dr. George Colisimo, the team physician, at a football game by Culver City High School’s Athletic Director, Jerry Chabola, about 6 years ago.

During the games, I started sharing some of my digital pictures with him. He would, in his own unique way, critique them.

Financial penalties are usually negotiated to help insure that the contract agreed upon is not broken by either of the parties involved.

One issue of many that I have with the city's agreement with Exxon-Mobil (Exx-Mo) is the overall annual averaging of the daily amounts being pumped through the pipeline.

At last night’s special School Board meeting at the Robert Frost Auditorium, I heard parental concerns over the perceived conditions of over-crowding, aggravated by the School District’s need for permits. I would like to bring up some factors of the local city governmental policies affecting District permit policies.

I still am quite disappointed by the continued lack of candor by the City Council to get Measure W past the voters on Election Day tomorrow.

Surely Council members know that candor —the volunteering of information they know the community would think is important — is an essential part of the public trust.

City Council member Scott Malsin came to the last School Board meeting to inform Board members about Measure W, the Utility Users Tax, coming up for voter approval on April 8.

Mr. Malsin read what seemed to be an official statement, saying that Measure W was needed and that it would only change and update the wording of the Utility Users’ Tax, that it would not increase taxes, and that the exemption for low-income seniors and the disabled would remain in place.

Just as past City Councils, which negotiated agreements with Mobil Oil, now Exxon-Mobil, could not predict the future or see the ungodly sums of profits now being generated by the oil companies, so, too, the present City Council cannot prognosticate.

But we do know the past record, and it is while looking back at the billions of dollars in annual profits generated by Exxon-Mobile that we should re-negotiate a much better deal for our city.

Culver City High School quarterback Darius Banks kept the 5-0 Centaurs undefeated last Friday night when he figured in all five touchdowns in a 38-28 non-league victory over Redondo Union High. Banks gained 89 ­yards and personally scored three touchdowns on 12 rushes. He also threw two scoring passes to Antwon Moutra, for 2 and 45 yards. See photos.

Before commenting about Darryl Cherness’ latest letter on the School District’s tennis court controversy at Culver City High School (“Privatizing the High School Tennis Courts,” Aug. 22), I would like to acknowledge some of the organizations who have contributed to the high school’s tennis court facility.

The chain-linked fences and the dark-green windscreens surrounding the courts were generously donated by Sees Candy. The city installed the restrooms at the south end of the courts and the court lighting. Both are supposed to be continually stocked and maintained by the city.