Board majority refuses to consider Campbell's merger restriction
Posted: Friday, March 8, 2013 3:30 pm | Updated: 6:16 pm, Fri Mar 8, 2013.
March 8, 2013
Pennsbury school board member Simon Campbell failed in his attempt to restrict any district representative from participating in discussions about a possible merger with the Morrisville School District.He proposed the restriction after learning that a representative of Sen. Chuck McIlhinney, R-10, contacted board President Allan Weisel to coordinate a meeting between Morrisville and Pennsbury officials to discuss a potential merger.Weisel apprized all board members of the inquiry via email. The board president indicated to the newspaper earlier in the week that he would be open to such a meeting.
Campbell felt Weisel was acting “inappropriately in making a unilateral decision” about the issue. He asked that the restriction proposal be included on the board’s March 14 action meeting agenda.
The board considered the request late Thursday night during its planning session while deciding what issues it would handle at the upcoming action meeting.
Campbell argued that Weisel had already indicated he wanted to have a meeting to discuss the potential merger.
No meeting has been scheduled, said the board president. “There is no ambiguity,” Weisel said Thursday night. “I never said I was going to meet with them.”
When the request was put to a vote, eight of the nine board members voted against considering the restriction on March 14. Campbell was the only board member to vote in favor of considering such a restriction.
Campbell did not comment after failing to get the restriction proposal on the agenda.
Weisel said even though the restriction on potential merger talks would not be considered during the voting portion of the meeting Campbell could still bring up the issue during the comment portion of the session.
Morrisville board President Damon Miller told the Pennsbury board before the Thursday night vote that his district is looking for a way to work with the Pennsbury school system.
“We are not looking to be rescued. We are not at that stage,” Miller said.
He pointed to how Morrisville has achieved Adequate Yearly Progress for seven years in a row to satisfy federal requirements as well as the benefits of having a recently renovated middle/high school in the district.
Like Weisel, he said no meeting has been set up for representatives of the two districts.
This isn’t the first time Morrisville has reached out to Pennsbury to discuss a possible merger.
During a previous attempt several years back, Greg Lucidi was the Pennsbury board president.
Veteran Pennsbury board members said on Thursday night that Lucidi met with Morrisville representatives and then reported back to the district’s governing body.
A similar scenario could play out if a merger discussion takes place in the coming weeks, officials said.
Campbell felt Weisel was acting “inappropriately in making a unilateral decision” about the issue. He asked that the restriction proposal be included on the board’s March 14 action meeting agenda.
The board considered the request late Thursday night during its planning session while deciding what issues it would handle at the upcoming action meeting.
Campbell argued that Weisel had already indicated he wanted to have a meeting to discuss the potential merger.
No meeting has been scheduled, said the board president. “There is no ambiguity,” Weisel said Thursday night. “I never said I was going to meet with them.”
When the request was put to a vote, eight of the nine board members voted against considering the restriction on March 14. Campbell was the only board member to vote in favor of considering such a restriction.
Campbell did not comment after failing to get the restriction proposal on the agenda.
Weisel said even though the restriction on potential merger talks would not be considered during the voting portion of the meeting Campbell could still bring up the issue during the comment portion of the session.
Morrisville board President Damon Miller told the Pennsbury board before the Thursday night vote that his district is looking for a way to work with the Pennsbury school system.
“We are not looking to be rescued. We are not at that stage,” Miller said.
He pointed to how Morrisville has achieved Adequate Yearly Progress for seven years in a row to satisfy federal requirements as well as the benefits of having a recently renovated middle/high school in the district.
Like Weisel, he said no meeting has been set up for representatives of the two districts.
This isn’t the first time Morrisville has reached out to Pennsbury to discuss a possible merger.
During a previous attempt several years back, Greg Lucidi was the Pennsbury board president.
Veteran Pennsbury board members said on Thursday night that Lucidi met with Morrisville representatives and then reported back to the district’s governing body.
A similar scenario could play out if a merger discussion takes place in the coming weeks, officials said.
17 comments:
Clearly, filthy union thugs muscled in on the other 8 board members. Campbell didn't comment. He was too busy unilaterally arranging to outsource Pennsbury's support staff and transportation services.
No man is an island. Except maybe Simon. And Gilligan.
Simon looks constipated.
Regardless of how the discussion proceeds, last night's voting down of Campbell is a win for both districts.
"apprized"? Is there anyone at the newspaper who can spell?
Oh how the mighty have fallen, and that's a good thing!
Cellphone posted at 3:52 pm on Sat, Mar 9, 2013.
Posts: 85
Hey, Pennsbury, be careful - if you merge(acquire) with Morrisville, then Trenton will be in your "backyard" with all those non-resident 'illegals" coming across the bridges everyday as they already do in Morrisville.
Just be glad you don't get everything you wish for. Maybe Campbell is right.
See StevenMH below.
StevenMH posted at 12:45 pm on Sat, Mar 9, 2013.
Posts: 1197
Take one of the better school systems in the state and mix in a bunch of vagrant kids from one parent Section 8 gangbanger run apartments - what could possibly go wrong?
What can you say, there will always be misinformed vicious dirtbags, they're scattered throughout all levels of society.
I seem to recall that, at some point, Mrs. Mihok put up a stink about there being a large amount of children coming to the MSD who actually live in NJ. I honestly cannot remember because this subject has been a steady theme for the 20+ years that I have lived in town. Some steps were taken to look into that & it was shown that it was not the problem it was made out to be. I could be off-base because as I said I can't remember. If there is documentation supporting that this subject is not the problem some would like it to be, my advise is to have it available. It will be a topic discussed at some point in any type of merger talks and it would be beneficial to have it. Have the facts ready to throw on top of the rumors.
"Have the facts ready to throw on top of the rumors."
Amen!
Lets get back majorities on both boards who know taxes are too high in both towns and will cut the fat out of both schools. Finish the job!
Fat?
Empty words in my mind unless you can mention specifics. I think there is very little left to trim before you start affecting education and that very little isn't going to bring your taxes down in Morrisville to the level of other districts.
Sure, let's bring back the liars and the lawsuit losers to tell lies skip meeting after meeting and waste more taxpayer money.
We need someone in charge who is a raging zealot about taxes yet relies heavily on taxpayer funded government subsidies. Is there somebody around here like that who is willing to step up?
why does that picture look like he thinks he shit him self instead of farting
You're right, he does like like he's sitting there brokenhearted.
Sharted? Don't you just hate when that happens?
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