New Superintendent Lays Out "Plan of Entry" is the title of the one article in the paper pictured above. We are not going to reprint the article by any means. If you have already read the article, then there is no sense is rehashing it. If you have not read the article, then you can always go to the newspaper's website.
What we have a problem with here and everywhere else we have looked including the Gloucester School Board website is who the stakeholders are claimed to be and mainly, who is left out. And what is the most disturbing is exactly who has been left out. No reason to delay who has been left out, it's the taxpayers. The taxpayers, those of us who pay for the entire system are not even considered stakeholders in education. But don't take our word for it, look at the plan for yourself. Exactly how do the folks at the local newspaper manage to miss the obvious right in front of them and not ask the questions as to why the taxpayers are not considered stakeholders?
Gloucester, VA School Board Sup Plan of Entry July 2014 from Chuck Thompson
Now one has to ask, does the local school board think that little of the taxpayers? It would appear to be since they are wasting your tax dollars as fast as they possibly can. We continue to see the waste each week.
Vehicle number 273, Driver, D Miller, School Board, Department, Facilities Services, Reports to Dave Miller, July 21st, 2014 time, 7:21 AM. Location spotted, Hardees Restaurant. This is a very clear pattern of behavior for this driver.
The above vehicle we still can not get the number on but again, the vehicle belongs to the Public School system. July 21st, at 8:33AM.
Vehicle number 284, Public Schools, July 21st, 2014. Time, 9:17 AM. Went inside McDonald's to have breakfast. This was not even a drive through quick order. This is Dave Miller the person in charge of Facilities Services. No wonder his employees are all over the place. They are only doing what their boss is doing but not as bad as he does.
Maybe the Board of Supervisors should take away one hundred thousand dollars of funding per school board vehicle seen in local stores, restaurants and banks where the employees are using government vehicles for personal use, per incident. We highly recommend the county seriously consider installing GPS tracking in all county vehicles. This way, if a county employee is seen being someplace they do not belong, the county can actually shut down the vehicle on the employee. This way the county also always knows where all the employees are and what they should be doing.
Now another area where this gets even worse in our view is with the new contract between the superintendent and the school board. If you have not read that contract, maybe you should. See section V on page 3. The school board is allowing the new superintendent to use a government vehicle for personal use. Never mind that this appears to be prohibited at the local level, state level and federal level as well.
Now one has to ask, does the local school board think that little of the taxpayers? It would appear to be since they are wasting your tax dollars as fast as they possibly can. We continue to see the waste each week.
The above vehicle we still can not get the number on but again, the vehicle belongs to the Public School system. July 21st, at 8:33AM.
Vehicle number 284, Public Schools, July 21st, 2014. Time, 9:17 AM. Went inside McDonald's to have breakfast. This was not even a drive through quick order. This is Dave Miller the person in charge of Facilities Services. No wonder his employees are all over the place. They are only doing what their boss is doing but not as bad as he does.
Maybe the Board of Supervisors should take away one hundred thousand dollars of funding per school board vehicle seen in local stores, restaurants and banks where the employees are using government vehicles for personal use, per incident. We highly recommend the county seriously consider installing GPS tracking in all county vehicles. This way, if a county employee is seen being someplace they do not belong, the county can actually shut down the vehicle on the employee. This way the county also always knows where all the employees are and what they should be doing.
Now another area where this gets even worse in our view is with the new contract between the superintendent and the school board. If you have not read that contract, maybe you should. See section V on page 3. The school board is allowing the new superintendent to use a government vehicle for personal use. Never mind that this appears to be prohibited at the local level, state level and federal level as well.
Walter R. Clemons 3 Year Contract (7-1-2014-6-30-2017) Gloucester, VA from Chuck Thompson
We have filed a complaint with the IRS over the above contract as it appears to be very much in violation with IRS codes as well as Federal, State and local laws, codes and or ordinances. Maybe we can stop this madness and send a message to the school board that we will not tolerate their complete disregard for the taxpayers and their continuous waste of our money. We have also included the personal use of government vehicles in the complaint as this needs to end.
We have filed a complaint with the IRS over the above contract as it appears to be very much in violation with IRS codes as well as Federal, State and local laws, codes and or ordinances. Maybe we can stop this madness and send a message to the school board that we will not tolerate their complete disregard for the taxpayers and their continuous waste of our money. We have also included the personal use of government vehicles in the complaint as this needs to end.
