Let's start our new blog with the Coach Dalton case and where does it stand? Good question, at this point they have again terminated Ed, well, they didn’t actually tell Ed he was terminated. So, that created a grievance from the teachers union. The vote to remove came on Mr. Bodnovich's last official board meeting. The vote was Bodnovich, Day, Interval, Clutter and McWreath. The remaining 4 all voted to keep Ed as coach, Clemens, Keisling, Knapp and Salvatori. Why did they vote to keep Ed as coach, aside from the fact that he is a good person and the fact that he has proven to be the best, most winning coach in the history of the school, none of the descending 5 could give a reason as to why they wanted Ed gone. They attempted to have their new "contract negotiator" Mr. Breth investigate the athletic department. The goal; to find mishandling of school monies, which by the way they did find, in the form of Mr. Breth charging us $25,000 to tell us that nothing was wrong with the monies. The only real issue (other than paying an attorney $25,000 to audit the athletics) was the lack of some tracking procedures in the business office. By the way our other auditors reported the same thing $25,000 ago.

So now what, well the fab-5 (as mentioned above) decided to hire Mike Wall as the new coach, but wait, he needs a full time job! I know, lets give him the transition coordinators position. We will just bring that position back; no one will remember that we said it was a position that was not needed. But, how much can we pay him? Lets just wait and pay him what ever he wants, because remember he is an assistant football coach in Texas. Ok great full steam ahead, wait, you mean he still has not accepted the position or the job. Well, we will show him, distant relative or not we will hire a guy named Rich Piccinini he will save our football team, after all he is the assistant JV coach at Upper St. Clair. But how much does he want? Who cares he does not want to work here so we will only have to pay him as coach.

Ok, so now let’s skip ahead to the board meeting, Mr. Makel informs the board that they are again circumventing their own rules and the law by changing the agenda to include a name in the head coach item on the agenda. They immediately go to executive session. When they return a new vote is taken to re-hire Ed Dalton the vote is  Clemens, Keisling, Knapp, Salvatori the new board member Harton AND McWreath to keep and Day, Clutter and Iterval to not. There of course are some stipulations but in my mind the only things we have succeeded in doing are to ad more dollar signs or should I say 0's to Ed's law suit. More on this situation as it progresses.

Now what can we (the board) do, lets bring in a guy named Caputo and his insurance company to change our insurance coverage, after all he covers the Blackhawk school district and the, oh that’s right, just the Blackhawk school district. But he must be good he was on the Blackhawk school board and our new attorney, (you remember the $25,000 guy from above) was involved in a law suit with him as defendants. We do have an expert in this field and i will see if he can fill us in more on the insurance problem. I will also see if he would mind adding a few sentences to this blog to keep us all on the same page about the program.

Kaunich’s domestic assault case is scheduled for non-jury trial on May 5^th. We will need to watch this one closely also. Half day kindergarten is much closer than you may think, could be this next meeting will be the start of conversations for it. Lots more to go over but I will send more tomorrow.