[img]1705|right|Mike Reynolds||no_popup[/img]As Supt. Dave LaRose and Teachers Union President David Mielke became skyborne for the icy, below-zero East Coast just past dawn, they could look down on Culver City and espy happy faces still glowing from last evening’s special School Board meeting on the bond measure.
Mike Reynolds, assistant superintendent for business, was shaking his pleased head over School Distract approval numbers in the 80s, as recorded in the community survey taken to test its readiness fir a $106 million bond measure.
Board President Laura Chardiet said she does not really see how the bond measure could lose on the June primary ballot.
Not that she was deadly serious, of course, for the entirety of the two-hour meeting led by bond measure consultants.
After the experts finished, Ms. Chardiet polled her colleagues seated around a four-sided square table, facing Mr. LaRose and Mr. Reynolds.
[img]1686|left|Laura Chardiet||no_popup[/img]When pollster Paul Goodwin finished delivering a rain barrel full of onesided data that showed a huge majority of residents approving of the District’s leadership, being more ready to support a bond than to consume their next meal, it was the turn of policymaking Board members.
Naturally, the four who are not president assented in forceful terms.
Speaking last, Ms. Chardiet donned a grim mask.
“Guys,” she deadpanned, “I am not really feeling it.”
The shock lasted three and a quarter-tenths of a moment before all realized Ms. Chardiet was kidding.
Across the table, meanwhile, Mr. Reynolds was almost aghast at the support numbers the pollster was reeling off.
“We were so encouraged by the community’s 88 percent approval of the job the District is doing,” said Mr. Reynolds.
