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Sweetwater School Board Awards 2-Year Contract to Ed Brand
The only board member worth her salt is Bertha Lopez. She has been a true and consistant supporter of the public's right to have district's business transparent, as well as being in full support of the student's rights to a full academic program. If you are going to attend Bonitafest this saturday, be sure to stop by Ms. Lopez's booth and show your support. Fran Brinkman and I will be manning the booth between 9:15 and 11:15 AM. Come vent your outrage over the board's decision to give Brand a contract and help us re-elect the only board member with any integrity. See you there.— September 26, 2012 12:01 p.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
anniej... you going to attend the trial?— September 22, 2012 11:22 p.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
Everything that is wrong with sweetwater will be present in that board room monday night.— September 22, 2012 11:20 p.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
Something like that.— September 22, 2012 11:24 a.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
I'm surprised you didn't include some sort of anti-Obama tirade in that.— September 22, 2012 12:01 a.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
Ed Brand's firing of Nancy Stubbs was the lowest, most vile thing that one person could do to another. If anybody has SUHSD blood in their veins, it is Nancy. Brand fired her because he believed she was one of the leaks during Gandara's term. Oh, how wrong Brand was (and is). He has no clue as to all the people who spy on him, but she was never one of them. Time for him to go. Go far, far away.— September 21, 2012 11:59 p.m.
Sweetwater Interim Superintendent Ed Brand Resigns
He won't say anything you will be able to understand. He's a politician, and a bad one at that, but he is going to tell us that Brand is the best thing for SUHSD. My take is Brand has the goods on them all, 'cept Bertha, and they better do what they are told or else.— September 21, 2012 11:52 p.m.
Chula Vista East Side's Mello-Roos Mess
How bad? Care to put flesh on those dried bones. Or, are they just some dried twigs that look like bones?— September 21, 2012 11:01 a.m.
Chula Vista West Side's No-Mello Divide
Susan, Unfortunately, by the time the east side is to receive funds from Prop O, there won't be any money left. By that time, so many years will have passed, that the west side will need further upgrades and that old saw about them being really old schools will prevail in Board discussions. By that time the CFD monies (Mello-Roos) will be wiped out and both Brand and the current board members will be long gone. Decisions today have a huge impact on what decisions can be made in the future.— September 21, 2012 10:57 a.m.
Chula Vista West Side's No-Mello Divide
The law is not vague. The money is to be spent inside the Community Facilities District (Mello-Roos). The money Brand is raiding from the Fund now, is no longer available to be used to build new school infrastructure in the future. If Eastlake High School needs a site improvement? Sorry, no money. If Otay Ranch HS needs new construction for anything? Sorry, no money. Olympian HS... same thing. SYHS... SOL. Until this money is repaid (decades from now????), it is lost for the use it was intended for. Brand is playing fast and loose with the money so his friends... err, consultants can make money off the school district. Brand is all about taking care of his friends. Just ask Pearl, Arlie, Jim and John if you don't believe me.— September 21, 2012 10:50 a.m.