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The following is a press release from Robert Lee, candidate fo District 300 school board:
EAST DUNDEE – Robert Lee, candidate for District 300 school board, highlighted his efforts to incorporate new web based technologies into his campaign. He released a YouTube video in the hopes of communicating to more voters directly before the April 7, 2009 election, and plans to release more in the coming weeks.
“Before the holiday, the Policy Committee discussed the use of technology in the classroom. It made me realize how little I know about it,” Lee said. “I decided to incorporate that technology into my campaign to both communicate with the community better and educate myself about its potential.”
Lee continued that the Policy Committee’s discussion included a detailed presentation by the technology staff of the district, which helped to spur his interest into different technologies available. Additionally, Monday night’s board meeting saw a presentation directly from students on the power of web based technologies in the classroom.
“Incorporating these simple and widely available technologies opens up tremendous opportunity for the school district. We could literally broadcast public meetings to the entire community to view at their leisure, and the utility in the classroom is obviously invaluable. Most importantly, these technologies are of minimal cost, helping the district to do more with less money.”
In the coming weeks, Lee plans to release more videos about why he’s running for District 300 and the issues important to his campaign. He encourages people to use the same tools to communicate with him about
the issues, as well. Lee hopes to incorporate all his videos on his website soon. In the meantime, he said community members can visit http://www.youtube.com/leeforillinois.
Here is Grant’s “farewell” to the Village Board, which is near and dear to my heart for at least three reasons …
1) He mentions this blog — “blogs written by anonymous people”.
2) He mentions the border patrol ad issue that was first raised on this blog (and followed shortly thereafter by a newspaper article).
3) He makes some very good points, especially about the need for facts.
I’d really like to make this site fulfill some of the void that Carpentersville’s Village website has left … and, with a whole lot more personality, of course.
Grant put a few new videos up over on YouTube in the past week, including one in which Trustee Sigwalt rebukes President Sarto not gaveling Grant for a crude remark, and this one where Trustees Sigwalt and Ramirez-Sliwinski spar over an incident that occurred at a Hispanic bakery, during the August 7th meeting of the Village Board.
To be frank, I don’t think for one minute that there is a correlation between “feeling unwelcome” at Hispanic-run businesses and people leaving the Village. I do, however, feel that it has much to do with other types of “unwelcoming” attitudes on the Village Board.Beyond that, though, is a greater issue which the Board should be looking at …
It is not simply those who are moving from the Village, and the number of empty houses left behind or those that have been on the market for a significant amount of time. They need to be concerned with the housing market overall, and what the jump in the foreclosure numbers might mean to the town.
More on that tomorrow …
Grant has a few new videos up over at YouTube that you might want to check out which were posted Sunday.
1. Sarto explains his ruling based on the rules for public comments that the Board had approved. [View]
2. Sarto moves to enforce the rules and 5 trustees, without explanation and dodging any questions about what their intent is, decide to overturn those rules for friend and cohort, Bob Sperlazzo. Sarto is correct in his ruling because the Board chose not to discuss it; and continues to say that it will not discuss it. To let members of the public continue to comment on it is illogical and rightly outside the purpose of public comments and the Board meetings. [View]
3. A woman flies off the handle into a tirade of near incoherence because someone, allegedly a trustee’s husband, told her she “was done”. A fine representation of the kinds of comments the Board must endure which have little-to-nothing to do with what the rules require, namely that comments concern matters “relevant to Village business”. [View]
4. Tom Roeser, President of Otto Engineering (Carpentersville’s largest employer) provides evidence of how poorly the Board and staff are managing the Village.[View]
[Note to Grant: Despite your discontentment with me, I do appreciate your efforts and work, especially on the YouTube/Google vids. Thanks!]
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