School Board Status Quo
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/25/08 @ 12:02 am - Filed Under 2008 Local Elections
Evert Mol had a thought-provoking post up at his Code Blue Schools blog today regarding Becky Hill’s announcement that she’s challenging Jon Olinger for the 3rd district school board seat. I will provide no commentary but merely link to the post:
The GiaQianta gang, trying to get incumbent Jon Olinger off the board because he had the nerve to vote against the bond issue, has come up with an opponent to run against him. Is this the woman who left her position as head of the Wells Street YWCA because she was in over her head? Who retired early because she had run the Y into the ground resulting in its closure? Apparently she does have one qualification, the ability to get in line behind Mark and follow the leader.
Ok, so just a touch of commentary. Remember when GiaQuinta said the school board didn’t need 7 Mark GiaQunitas?
“Seven Mark GiaQuintas on the Fort Wayne Community Schools board would be a recipe for disaster,” GiaQuinta said.
Well one is too many if you ask me, but exactly how many are the voters willing to tolerate?
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Anybody who thinks that Becky Hill is “another Mark GiaQuinta” - or another ANYBODY other than Becky Hill, for that matter, is just wrong and obviously doesn’t know Becky Hill.
You’re right, she’s not another GiaQuinta. But in selecting her to get rid of Olinger, he picked someone whom he expects to follow the party (Mark’s)line.
As a clarification, the YWCA is NOT closed. We have moved our administrative offices (actually over a year ago) to 1610 Spy Run. We continue to operate the state’s oldest and most respected domestic violence shelter as well as a host of other programs for women and families. We would appreciate your correcting the statement on our “closure”. Thank you. (If you want to view a complete picture of our work, sign onto our website at http://www.ywca.org/fortwayne.)
Well it wasn’t my statement but I will respond nonetheless.
Yes, the domestic violence shelter (and the YWCA) is open. After abandoning programs to focus most of the energy on this facility the board and the president lost the support of the old timers and had to take over fundraising for themselves. They couldn’t raise enough money to keep things running so they shut down the school facility, health club, pool and sold the villa.
We lost one of the best YWCA facilities in the Midwest…