By Jennifer Eisenbart
Editor
After strong discussion both for and against citizen representatives on the Burlington Area School District School Board Monday night, the School Board voted 4-3 to eliminate citizen representatives.
Five minutes later, those same representatives were voted back into existence – only without the voting rights they previously had, by a 4-3 vote.
Because School Board member Roger Koldeway felt that the district had ignored its own rules in eliminating the representatives without going through a first and second reading of the citizen representative policy – 185.2 – he called for a second vote moments after David Thompson, Larry Anderson, Bill Campbell and Rosanne Hahn voted to eliminate the representatives.
The second vote eliminated voting rights for the citizen representatives, but kept them as part of all discussions at the committee level. After arguing the necessity of vote – in particular, School Board member Rosanne Hahn wondered why they were voting for something the board had just eliminated – Koldeway, Phil Ketterhagen, Larry Anderson and Jim Bousman voted yes to the motion.
Those representatives have Karen Tolle and Norman Bryne to the Community Education Committee, Susan Kessler to the Policy Committee, Mark Sheldon to the Curriculum Committee, Dia Kleitsch to the Long-Range Planning Committee and Bob Lempken to the Buildings and Grounds Committee.
For more on the issue, please see the Oct. 17 print edition of the Burlington Standard Press.
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