Re “The Silbiger Statement That Unraveled the Bond Campaign”
The creature known as the School District’s proposed facilities-fixing bond measure campaign sat up in its coffin this morning.
Scratch the funeral.
The body is twitching promisingly.
A day after Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin, the president of the United Parents of Culver City parents union, raised the spectre of the School Board re-meeting in special session to hash out the merits of a bond measure campaign and actually stage a vote, the twitching body stepped out of the coffin and resumed breathing. Heavily.
[img]1805|right|Kathy Paspalis||no_popup[/img]School Board President Kathy Paspalis – one of two advocates of continuing the campaign and placing the subject on the November School Board election ballot – told the newspaper she has authority to summon the Board to a special session.
Beyond that, Ms. Paspalis is “not entirely certain” about the mechanics of how the process works. “The superintendent (Dave LaRose) is out of town until Monday. I will wait to speak with him then.”
Given the laws of public notice, late next week would seem to be the earliest a Board meeting could be called – all while training an eye on Aug. 9, the deadline for submitting a ballot proposition to the County Registrar’s office.
Wanted: Dead or Alive?
The suddenly disputed bond measure campaign was widely presumed to have died a week ago last Monday night in a special School Board session.
The strongly parent-supported Fix Our Schools drive was sailing along in calm waters until Board member Karlo Silbiger delivered an 1854-word prepared statement outlining reasons the campaign should be delayed at least until next year. The process was being hurried too fast and not enough vital information had been disclosed about the down as well as the upsides, Mr. Silbiger argued.
Once Prof. Pat Siever and Nancy Goldberg chimed in with “me, too’s,” constituting a three-fifths majority of the Board, the once-vibrant matter was presumed deader than Mr. Lincoln’s body. And that was how the evening ended – on the grounds of presumption rather than a formal vote.
