Re “Volunteers Sought for 7 Seats on Bond Oversight Board”
[img]1705|right|Mike Reynolds||no_popup[/img]Rounding up seven upstanding citizens – a phrase not lightly asserted – for the School District’s Bond Oversight Committee is a formal task with intensely specific guidelines.
No place for mere warm bodies.
Mike Reynolds, the Assistant Superintendent for Business, and the School Board are not necessarily going to accept the first seven apples rolling out of the basket.
Applications went online 20 days ago, and the door will be open until Oct. 17, a week from Friday.
Seven specific categories of professional or social qualifications are called for. So far, five people have declared their interest.
The following constituencies are to be represented:
• Business representative.
• Senior citizen group representative.,
• Taxpayer organization member.
• Parent or guardian of a child enrolled in the School District.
• Parent or guardian of a child enrolled in the District and active in a parent‐teacher organization.
• Two at‐large community members.
“Our community is active and supportive of the District’s efforts,” Mr. Reynolds said. “I am not concerned about finding enough qualified people. We are well on the way to filling the available seats.”
He said applications will be forwarded to the School Board, and “it will be up to them if they want to do interviews.”
The Bond Oversight Committee will be in business for an undetermined number of years. They will be at the wheel as the $107 million improvements bond approved last June rolls out.
Their first priority, said Mr. Reynolds, “will be to review all expenditures made from the bond proceeds and to make sure they align specifically with the ballot language approved by the voters.”
Set legal and procedural guidelines need to be in place, he added.
