I was invited to an organizational meeting supporting the Parcel Tax at Scott Zeidman's house last night.
Some of the other candidates for School Board were there also.
I may have averted a major conflict of interest when the organizing group had tentatively agreed to call themselves “Culver City Save Our Schools Yes on Measure EE.”
You see, I am president of a group I formed last year called Culver City Save Our Schools. Although we are reluctantly supporting the Parcel Tax as an emergency measure, we feel this parcel tax would not have been necessary had Culver City supported environmental oil drilling and gotten millions in royalties.
I told the group about this conflict of interest. Culver City Save Our Schools has rented a booth at next weekend’s Fiesta La Ballona. Even though we are supporting the Parcel Tax, we are going to promote the support of environmentally safe oil drilling as well.
That did not go over very well with the committee members. I told them we could agree to disagree.
Hopefully, I will get them to see the light and support environmentally safe oil drilling as well as the parcel tax.
It is my understanding that they decided to drop the conflicting name and change their committee name to
“Yes on EE= Educational Excellence”.
I think this is a good name.
I think that all the people at the meeting were genuinely caring about our schools. It’s a shame that we can't agree on everything such as the environmentally safe oil drilling royalties that could solve a lot of problems.
Mr. Zirgulis, a School Board candidate in the Nov. 3 election, may be contacted at ccsaveourschools@hotmail.com.
