Second `town hall' style night
draws crowd, recommendations
RCS Superintendent Vicki Wright
and members of the Board of
Education conducted the second
"town hall" style meeting Thursday
in Selkirk as a crowd of
approximately 20 district
residents asked questions about
the status of the district.
The crowd of RCS parents and
residents asked the
superintendent and board members
about everything from how she
was working to address the vote
of no confidence against
district administration and the
Board of Education taken last
fall by the Teachers Association
to what students in grades
kindergarten through four can do
in terms of fundraising
activities.
Besides Wright, Board of
Education President Mike Varney
and Vice President Cindi Elliott
addressed resident questions as
did board members John Vadney
and Jeff Sorensen as well as A.W.
Becker Principal Claudia Verga,
high school teacher and Dean
Bryan Wood and Communications
Coordinator Mike McCagg.
Other questions included what is
the district doing to address
“hot points” from last school
year, what is RCS doing to
increase community confidence in
the district; why did Interim
Business Administrator Gene
Grasso resign and can interim
Grades 9/10 Principal Dr. Frank
Barone stay beyond the end of
the school year.
The residents also mixed praise
into their questions and
criticisms, complimenting
Superintendent Wright and the
board for conducting the town
hall style meetings – which they
characterized as informal and
informative; as well praising
the positive attention the
district receives in the Albany
media.
Questions posed at the meeting
will be answered fully by
Superintendent Wright in very
near future on the district
website – www.rcscsd.org.
She said the district will
conduct additional town hall
style meetings in the future,
with dates and locations to be
announced in the coming weeks.
Board member Vadney said he was
pleased with the meeting.
"They are a continuing
effort of the board to
further promote the
inclusion of the members
of this community as
part of our Educational
team," Vadney said.
Responses to some of the
previous meeting questions are
available at:
http://www.rcscsd.org/Community_Q-A_12.3.07.htm
and
http://www.rcscsd.org/1.18.08/Questions_pt_2.htm
