Everyone that negotiated and approved the new contract should be thrown out of office.
They represent the excesses and abuse in government that disgusts most people.
A lesson should have been learned a few years ago with Frank Quatrone and Robert Brown. The BOE received a huge stack of resumes for a highly advertised open position for BA. Many resumes were great. Quatrone refused to interview one person. He said he wanted Robert Brown as interim BA and nobody else. Robert Brown was sleeping at his desk and forging vouchers for additional pay.
These interim BAs that Lodi has been using for too long are not impressive. They are not special. They are extremely overpaid and greedy. They are overly political. They grab as much as they can while providing no long term plans or vision. They are reckless with our tax dollars.
Who should be BA? Any honest, fiscally conservative person that can use a software program. They exist but the people running our Board wouldn't want that. Because they have too much to hide.
If the Board Office and BOE members are proud of awarding the new contract, why isn't it posted on our district website? They all went out of their way to undo every transparency measure that existed until 2019.
