Wow, these sound like fun committees.

One gets to solve the still-impossible problem of creating new boundaries to allow for a school we don't need while magically not hurting the ones we already have. (Bring your wands!)

Another gets to figure out how to serve the highest-needs kids using totally inadequate funding, and the last one gets to "decide what ought to be cut when budget money runs short."

All the while dealing with a Board that will ignore their recommendations after blaming them for making them, for no pay and fewer thanks.

Maybe someday when Steve Nelson and Greg Coladonato are long gone, after joining the Trump administration perhaps, I might volunteer.

Maybe the Board can make it easier on everyone by telling the committees what conclusions they want, so those poor parents won't have to waste the time away from their families to come to recommendations that will be ignored.

The new superintendent is riding a wave of personality driven change. That simply is not sustainable. If not informed by meaningful data, task force deliberations become an exercise in "pooled ignorance." Where do the teachers/staff fit in to all this?

You can't get anything done if you don't start doing things. In the past, on the Committees we were provided with adequate amounts of data and support from Staff. The District has engaged faculty and staff regularly to get input and we've just had a DQR and and SQR at each school. We've done the homework. Now it's time to start working on the assignments. I've been asking for this for several months and I'm happy to see that we're ready to start doing the work again.

Great to see the boundary discussion get rebooted. Tough calls ahead, any way you slice it.

My wish for Facilities would be that the committee's job is easy, because the four schools under its scope all come in within the previously planned budget, i.e. the District's construction management team does their job & we aren't surprised by things like dry rot. I remember the priority list from last time and there's nothing easy left to cut... some might point to food service quality, but I'd urge them to read the article about homeless students that was just printed in the Voice, and reconsider.

The real question is, considering what the Board did to the BATF last year, not just the total contempt they showed to the BATF report, but the way the BATF members were verbally denigrated and accused of all sorts of things by the various Slater/Whisman advocates both on the Board and other wise...
All this history considered, who is so masochistic to want to go through that this time?

I mean, the videos are on-line to show the bile that was thrown at BATF members last year as soon as they released their final report.

@Fed up of Cuesta Park

"Maybe the Board can make it easier on everyone by telling the committees what conclusions they want, so those poor parents won't have to waste the time away from their families to come to recommendations that will be ignored. "

BINGO!
That's the ONLY function of these committees/task forces, all they are is a way that the politicians can burn time/effort of those people who would otherwise be making speeches and writing letters to the editors of the Voice explaining why the Board is incompetent and instead, trying to heard these people into producing an outcome that the politicians can then exploit as either political cover by blaming a decision on the committees rather on themselves OR to exploit an outcome they don't like to claim that the members were biased and dishonest or the Superintendent misused the process or didn't have a balanced membership or any other excuse to say that such decisions are just beyond the intelligence of us ordinary little people who have not been elected to public office.

It's all a game to them and we are the pawns.