Citizens in Support of Dr. Williams

The following comments are from Nancy Speedy, who spoke at Monday night’s board meeting:

I am appalled that this board, who has already hired Jon Bailey as a “special attorney,” now has hired yet another attorney at $250 hr, who will then hire his own associate at $175 hr. WOW, if for any reason these three attorneys have a fifteen minute conference call, does that mean the citizens of Perry Township will be charged $630 for that call? With all our other financial burdens right now, this certainly does not model fiduciary responsibility on your part.

You know, at several board meetings, I’ve heard the term BREECH OF CONFIDENCE used repeatedly. Well, speaking as a private citizen, I feel this board has BREECHED OUR CONFIDENCE by:

• Incurring huge costs for Jon Bailey’s services.
• Spending $1,000 for mediation which could have been free.
• Spending over $4,000 this month for speakers in the gym.
• Paying for extra security personnel.
• Losing a $25 million dollar grant for New Tech High.
• Editorializing a Finance Report as fact.
• Exposing personnel information to the general public and the media?
• Continually withholding information from other board members.
• Publicly embarrassing and belittling teachers, administrators, and central office personnel. (Shame, shame)
• Offensively threatening citizens by calling us “You People” or “The Orange People” when in fact, it is our first amendment right to speak at a public board meeting.

In conclusion, if what you are doing is not a “breech of confidence,” to the citizenry of Perry Township, then I don’t know what that term means. I find it ludicrous and hypocritical that many of the reasons used to place Dr. Williams on leave have been actively and repeatedly employed by this board on a regular basis.

As the recent newspaper editorials have said, enough is enough, let’s stop this “witch hunt” right now!! I certainly don’t want other school districts laughingly referring to us as the “Salem Township.”