Thank You For Posting The Agenda

I see why you did not want to post it. For the third time in as many months the agenda has changed, Not all of the agenda just the part that deals with public participation. If I am so wrong when it comes to this section, Why have you changed it 3 times since I started talking about it. Take a look folks. This is from the May agenda of the Camden County School Board:

VIII. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION - (Board Meeting)

a. Public Participation
The Board of Education has established a practice that permits citizens to address the board on a variety of topics of general concern to the operation of our schools. We welcome visitors to board meetings and are interested in hearing from the taxpayers and patrons of our school system. We have a few simple rules for public comment; each person wishing to address the board must sign this roster; each person is limited to five (5) minutes; we request that a citizen refrain from attacking personally any employee of the school system; any citizen who has a specific complaint involving an employee must first address the issue with the superintendent and, if not resolved; then may speak with the board. However, certain matters involving personnel and students must be heard in closed session; the superintendent will inform you whether your complaint is one that should be referred to an executive session with the board. By signing the roster, participants are agreeing to abide by these rules.

This looks like something from the years of Stalin. I did not know we needed the superintendents permission to address our elected officials.

Notice they want to hear from taxpayer and patrons (students I assume since I don't go to school), but not parents. They can't even include us.

Once again DR. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR PROCTOR, you can not pick and choose what can be said in a public meeting. You only have the right to have public comments or not. You don't have to have public comments if you choose not to, perfectly legal. But if you do have public comments you must allow the people to speak.

The minutes from April are not complete. The BOE is trying to hide things from the public. They are lying to you and me.

Mr. Rowland you should resign, you lied in your campaign, you promised open meeting and have not delivered. Maybe you should cut the puppet strings and be a man and stand up to your only employee. Why should I have to ask your employee if I can talk to you. That is what the public comments are all about. You should be ashamed of yourself. At one point I thought you were a man of integrity, but I guess I was wrong.