UPDATE, March 25: The deadline for accepting applications from district residents seeking appointments to the board has been extended to noon, April 7.
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Want to help run Gateway Technical College?
The Board Appointment Committee for the college's Board of Trustees has begun accepting applications from district residents seeking appointments to the board. The deadline for applications is noon on March 23.
Four seats will be open for appointment. Three are currently filled. Up for reappointment are Fred Burkhardt, Suzanne Henkel Deans and Patricia M. Johnson. The three-year appointments begin July 1, 2010, and end June 30, 2013.
The seat held by Rebecca Vail is open due to her resignation, effective March 31, after accepting a position at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Vacancies for three-year terms are one Kenosha County seat, one Walworth County seat and one Racine County seat: One must be an "employer," meaning someone who has the authority to oversee or recommend employee hiring, firing, suspension, discipline, layoffs, recalls, promotions, discharges and grievances. One must be an "employee," someone who is employed but does not meet the classification of an employer member. One is an additional member, open to any district resident.
The two-year seat to complete Vail’s term must be from Walworth County and needs to be an employer member.
Applications must be notarized, include two letters of reference, and applicants must be present at the April 14 meeting of the appointment committee at the Burlington Center, 496 McCanna Parkway. Chairpersons of the Kenosha County, Racine County and Walworth County boards of supervisors make up the interview committee.
Those interested in applying can obtain the application/affidavit packet online or at county clerks’ offices in Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, or at Gateway’s Kenosha Campus, Academic Affairs Office Room 132, 3520-30th Ave.; Gateway’s Elkhorn Campus, North Building Room 202, 400 County Road H; Gateway’s Racine Campus, Main Building Room 201, 1001 S. Main St.; and Gateway’s Burlington Center, 496 McCanna Parkway.
In our working class neighborhood, most people are thoroughly bored with boards and other elitist bunk. However, our taxed-to-death elderly homeowners who support the Gateway gang would like to know how much the board members receive for their largely-nonexistent services to an increasingly-impoverished community.
ReplyDeleteThere'd better not be any Waxtrash or Carnauba carpetbaggers among the applicants. The Waxstench in our region of the Badger State already is more than sufficiently putrid to induce regurgitation in a decent billygoat.
ReplyDeleteThis board should be an elected position. We the people should be allowed to send them a clear message by not voting for them. They tax us and can waste our money all without recourse.
ReplyDeleteYou are all idiots.
ReplyDeleteNo, we're realists forced to be increasingly practical and pennywise in a pound-foolish system run by and for the oligarchy.
ReplyDeleteIf Gateway's got the brains the Almighty gave a gnat, it will dump any and all Waxtrash lackeys pronto and prevent re-infestation by systematically weeding out the Cherokee Red reprobates present on its premises instanter.
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ReplyDeleteI hope they get some people on the board that hold the line on taxes. This is the only non-elected taxing board we have and it shows.
ReplyDeleteThen again even though RUSD board is elected it would be nice if they would hold the line too.
Amen! As a friend of elderly citizens who are being taxed out of their homes, I second that emotion.
ReplyDeleteThat RUSD board funds follies galore with our long-suffering taxpayers' money. For example, methinks that Horlick doesn't need a "Madrigal Dinner" while basic education languishes. Ditto the bloated sports, theater and dance programs which probably are there because public educators feel the urge to splurge while competing with a snob snuggery I'll call "Precious Airy Academy." During a depression, strict economy should be the rule at RUSD rather than the extravagance which reigns supreme to the detriment of our low-income home owners.
ReplyDeleteanon 7:01 you have not looked at the budget for RUSD have you? The things you talk about our small potatoes and can cost us in the long run. We need to get a handle on the benefits and other actual waste that is not the lifeblood of the students. Otherwise the only thing that is going to happen is that those students will just go out of the district costing us money.
ReplyDeleteThey are planning on dumping all their computers and starting to lease them all for 4 years. Last time they dumped computers, they dumped them all and had to pay a fee. The person who got them made money on them. We could make money on recycling them. I hope they plan on making money this time.
Dear 7:01 PM, It's true that salaries and benefits are bigger expenditures than the nonessential items. However, if we touch teachers' compensation and other employees' goodies, we could have strikes and lawsuits beyond our worst nightmares. On the other hand, art, music and sports programs which exceed the minimum mandated by the state can--and should--be slashed. To most of the elderly residents of my neighborhood, the Horlick Madrigal Dinner could vanish into the void and be neither mourned nor missed. The same applies to most high school and middle school musicals. Ditto band and orchestra programs. As for sports, they sneaked into the curriculum because the elite wanted boys to have a classical education patterned on what the British and Yankee ruling classes thought scions of fine families received back in Ancient Greece and Rome. (Later on, cr-p like so-called Muscular Christianity and military preparedness also played a role in pushing sports/phys ed down the taxpaying public's throat.) The bottom line is that we must cut out the frills which we'll be allowed to remove a.s.a.p. None of this stuff would or should qualify as basic education. Frankly, the sort of privileged parents who'd transfer their progeny to other schools in response to austerity at RUSD are the same economically-advantaged types who'd send little Muffy and Buffy to "Precious Airy Academy" anyway.
ReplyDeleteWell your wrong about that. I have children and I have no problem sending them to the Kenosha school system. Where they can have it all. I just may do it next year. My children are fully engaged at school and are in many different clubs etc. If you take those away, musicals, sports, etc. Then we will lose some of our best students. We will have to pay for them to go to outside the district. They never plan for this in the budget enough.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if the unions do strike. We need to clean house and start over with a contract that is fair to the tax payers and benefits the students.
Will the jerk who molested children at Walden be getting benefits from his 20 year teaching job?
Someone who wants to keep the child care open needs to be applying for this. Step up and make a difference.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be great if we could shut down GTC and get that venal vampire out of our taxpayers' lives?
ReplyDeleteAMEN!
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