BOARD UPDATE
10-25-99

Rumor Mongering

An overflow crowd attended the Board meeting to express their concern for the lack of progress on the Har-Mer renovations.

Tom Bodie, president of the Home and School Association, expressed the concerns of the community and called for an end to the "parochialism" and get this project back on track.

Dr. Duryea, in an attempt to put out the fire (cover up for lack of progress) asked Dr. Watson to speak to the gathered taxpayers (voters).

Dr. Watson, who apparently had many phone calls over the weekend, attempted to explain that everything the Har-Mer people had heard was just rumors and they had nothing to worry about. Har-Mer would not be short changed and everything would be ok. Yeah, right. Remember Har-Mer has had toxic water for years. But....naw, Har-Mer isn't getting short changed.

On man, disgusted, disrupted the meeting yelling that all of this was "garbage" and stormed from the room.

The deal is that after 21 months and 17 board meetings this board has desided to look into modular construction

Bottom line? Bill Adams has a buddy who in in the Modular business. That is why we are looking at this at this late date..

After $300,000 to our architect we are now looking into Adams "new" idea to save taxpayer $.

Why didn't the Board look into modular construction before now? Good question. Maybe he didn't know who he knows now!

Some Board members expressed concern that the citizens at the meeting were there because Jim Roberts had told them that they would never get renovations at Har-Mer if they didn't attend. Hmmm.

I don't know about that, but I do know that Roberts will be leaving the board at the end of this year. Could it be that he wants a "legacy" before he leaves?