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Troy: Talk to Nancy Larson about the special meeting we attended where the board gave JCI the contract to serve as project manager over the construction projects. I stood up and questioned who was going to serve as contract administrator, go to all the projects with a clipboard and oversee the construction on behalf of the district. Supt. Rick said he was. I asked him if planned to don a hardhat and go from site to site, and if so, who was going to be doing his day job as superintendent. At that point, John Henry of JCI jumped up like a jack in the box to say he was going to oversee the projects, to which I said I had never, in my professional career, heard of any vendor approving their own invoices. Your friend, Bob Larson, ordered me to sit down, that the meeting was not the place to talk about these things and that if I wanted to talk about them, I needed to schedule an appointment to meet with JCI at the district offices. Want to know where you called to schedule an appointment? The district staff told me they could not connect me with anyone from JCI and that I would have to call a long distance number in Chicago to set up an appointment in Virginia.

Open enrollment is a wild card. I am not a gambler. I don't think the school board should be spending our taxpayers money on such a gamble without first going to the taxpayers for approval. Your analogy of a business not turning business away is interesting. Having a business background, a business doesn't automatically add bricks and mortar when they experience an uptick in business. They increase their hours of operation and do everything they can with the current physical plant until it is proven the uptick seems sustainable. And, they put up their own capital, not the taxpayers money, when they do choose to expand. That's a big difference, partner.

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