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I wonder why someone in Bath would be pushing spending all the money in a different attendance district? Something does not add up there.

What was needed was a countywide needs assessment and school population projection, not Cheeseman's half-assed resume-driven boondoggle. What was also needed was more public input in the process at a much earlier stage. The public should have been consulted early on before a specific plan was developed. They may hold meetings now to tell you what they are going to do, but transparency and public input were totally lacking in putting that plan together. That is NOT how things should work in a democratic system.

Anyone familiar with the schools has heard about needs in Chocowinity for years. They were left out of the last round of school construction. Why did none of this money go to Chocowinity? Did Cheeseman not think that would help his resume as much?

WE need a school board majority who are more than just front men for a power obsessed superintendant.

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 6:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There go Hood and Stan not telling the truth. No progress report. I saw where there is monthly meetings on the progress! It has been published multiple times that Eastern is getting torn down. Wow I guess your old ears hear like your hips do not at all! Stop the lies and tell the truth for once in your old life

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 6:56 pm By: Bath parent

What taxpayers needed to see was serious planning for future school needs. In the past, superintendants have pushed plans that left us with excess capacity in some places and unfullfilled needs in others. Here we go again, with a superintendant crafted plan with no expert analysis. There are people who do population projections, but our own school admin office lacks that capacity, and no experts were called in. Such projects are essential to competently project school needs. We have a superintendant who simply wants to create a resume item for when he applies for a better paying job at a bigger system and he wants it quickly, so never mind doing the legwork that should be done. WE have no comprehensive facilities plan, and that is what is needed before going off half cocked and spending milliions of taxpayer dollars.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 3:51 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Transparency and open government are two things that do not exist with our current school board majority and their puppetmaster superintendant. This $50 million scheme was concocted in the backroom with no public input or even knowledge and then rubberstamped, again with no real public input by the sockpuppet majority on the school board. Where were the public hearings on school needs preceding the planning or indeed in any stage of the planning? Where were the outside expert analysis reports and recommendations? Some of these idiots may nominally be "Republicans" but they spend money like Biden and Pelosi.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 3:36 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer