Well, theater lovers enjoyed quite the spectacle this
evening! After the closed session, the
board members entered the boardroom and, like any other meeting, started
greeting the spectators who were in attendance.
I saw Bill Proctor, Terry Huckaby, Rebecca Fox, Joe Adams, and Neal
Howard. Henry Dibrell is in Africa on a
mission trip with the Amobi Okoye Foundation, and Robert Shaw continues to
recover from major surgery. The next
thing I realized, the board members had all vanished! Well, that prompted some chatter, but sure
enough, in about 15 minutes in walk Fox, Adams, Howard and Robert Shaw!
They started the meeting, and took votes on the closed
session items. Apparently, Shaw had not
been present in the closed session, because he recused himself from the appeal
of a grievance because he hadn’t been at the hearing. As the votes were tallied, Mr.
Adams noted that Mr. Dibrell was out of town and, “…Mr. Huckaby and Mr. Proctor
have left the building.”
What does THAT mean?
Did Proctor and Huckaby leave in order to close down the meeting for
lack of a quorum? Did a recovering Bob
Shaw have to be called in to make sure 4 members were present so that the
business of the district could be conducted?
These theatrics are reminiscent of the shenanigans of the
Texas Democrats who high-tailed it to Ardmore, OK to make a political
point. Or similar theatrics in Wisconsin and Indiana. As a taxpayer, this just makes me
MAD. How dare they waste the time of the
district patrons and of the employees present!
How dare they derail the work of the district! Yes, it was “just” a work-study meeting, and
nothing was voted on other than the personnel matters from closed session, but
those are important votes that keep the district moving forward in an orderly
way! They also gave up their chance to
ask questions and discuss the matters that were on the discussion agenda. Since that is the only way that divergent
views and values are factored into the decisions of the board, they failed in
their duty as Trustees to be at the dais and to contribute to the decision. For THEATER! Shame
on them!
Apparently, Proctor and Huckaby each handed the
press a press release, so this was not the case of a spontaneous response to
something that happened at the meeting.
It was a calculated political maneuver to… What??? Well, think about what THEIR agenda is. I think it’s pretty clear they are willing to
throw the work of the district under the bus in order to make a political
point, especially now that there is an election in less than two months. REALLY?? And how embarrassing for Katy ISD. This district used to be the envy of others
all around the State. It is antics like
this that will paint us a laughing stock….
And when we have a reputation as having
a thoroughly dysfunctional school board, what businesses will relocate
here? What great teachers and administrators will want to work here? What people will want their
children educated here? What will happen
to our home values and quality of life?
