School Boarding In 3/4 Time

Yet another revelation from reviewing the 2009 Sun Prairie School Board meeting records.

Jim "McSeaBass" McCourt...you know...the guy seeking re-election this spring...failed to show up for fully 25% of school board meetings!

Yep. That's right. Mr McCourt operated in 3/4 time---while collecting his full salary (well...95% salary after 7/1/09). McCourt was absent for the meetings of:

2/23/2009
5/26/2009
6/8/2009
9/14/2009
10/12/2009
12/14/2009

That's 6 meetings....out of 24. Oh...yeah...and he wasn't present for the annual meeting either.

And he thinks he should be re-elected? Perhaps Mr. McCourt should focus his time on that new business of his...which is clearly more pressing than school board meetings he was ELECTED to attend.

If you look at it another way, ole Seabass only cast 103 out of a possible 143 votes during regular school board meetings. That means he failed to vote on 27% of the issues presented. More importantly, his absences coincided with some of the more critical issues faced by the school board this year, like:

- staff renewal contracts (2/23/09)
- switching from security guards to 'youth advocates' at the high school (5/26/09)
- Next Steps in tackling the diversity issue (9/14/09)
- District Administrator contract (9/14/09)
- adoption of the 2009-10 budget (9/14/09)
- the annual electors meeting (10/12/09)
- District fiscal audit report (12/14/09)

0.750 might be a great batting average in baseball...but for an elected official...we expect better than operating in 3/4 time.