Steve, this is the fifth (5th) request I have made for how much extant 11th- and 12-th grade Prentice Hall English books cost the district, how long the district keeps these books, and what happens to them when superannuated.
The taxpayers fork over $100,000 to you each year for providing this kind of information to those who ask for it. If you can't handle the job, make way for Ms. Cobbe. She can do stuff like this with one hand behind her back. Ms. Elia hired you because she thought a former SPT reporter would guarantee her good press. Reporters in both papers now regard you as enemy since you deserted the newsroom and get twice their salaries.
That bad guess of hiring you sans credentials shows how poorly Ms. Elia understands publicity and psychology, especially since she alienated La Gaceta as well, on which the Hispanic community dotes, by threatening to sue it and cut off its ad revenues if her publicity were not rosy and the bizarre patronage hiring practices of the district not mentioned. Threatening the press's First Amendment lifeline is not the kind of thing to generate positive feelings from it toward the person doing the threatening.
That was just one of the bad calculations Elia has made on her superintendent watch. Since your hiring as head of the public-affairs department without your possessing the major listed credential while your competitors did, Ms. Elia has gotten some of the worst publicity possible. . She badly miscalculated on your magic with the press.
Request # 1 for these data: I want to know how much the college pays Mr. Gonzalez and the legal staff yearly and how many lawsuits he has going on the district's behalf. Pinellas has four or five in the law section and is a smaller school district. It has a pile of lawsuits going on. How many does Hillsboro ugh County's school district have in the works now and with whom? This is public information. Send it to me.
To summarize, here's what I want: 1. Prentice-Hall book costs; 2. how long books kept; 3. what happens to them when they wear out; 4. How much the district pays Gonzalez yearly, 5. number of his paid staff and its cost, 6. how many law suits going on now and with whom; 7. How much the legal bills were for the district last year.
You make a hundred thousand dollars a year for a job you didn't have the major credential for, managerial experience, while your rivals did because Ms. Elia mistakenly thought you would get her golden publicity with the local press from your inside contacts.
Besides burnishing her image, you are supposed to fulfill the promise of the public records law and give a citizen public information requested. Do it. I await these data.
lee drury de cesare
Tampa Bay Grammargrinch Issue 3
tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com
People who don't get their essays pasted on the frig for excellence:
Bill Maxwell, Brian Ries, Keith Morelli, Tom Germond,Thomus Huang, Paul Guzzo, and Tom Tobin.
lee drury de cesare
The taxpayers fork over $100,000 to you each year for providing this kind of information to those who ask for it. If you can't handle the job, make way for Ms. Cobbe. She can do stuff like this with one hand behind her back. Ms. Elia hired you because she thought a former SPT reporter would guarantee her good press. Reporters in both papers now regard you as enemy since you deserted the newsroom and get twice their salaries.
That bad guess of hiring you sans credentials shows how poorly Ms. Elia understands publicity and psychology, especially since she alienated La Gaceta as well, on which the Hispanic community dotes, by threatening to sue it and cut off its ad revenues if her publicity were not rosy and the bizarre patronage hiring practices of the district not mentioned. Threatening the press's First Amendment lifeline is not the kind of thing to generate positive feelings from it toward the person doing the threatening.
That was just one of the bad calculations Elia has made on her superintendent watch. Since your hiring as head of the public-affairs department without your possessing the major listed credential while your competitors did, Ms. Elia has gotten some of the worst publicity possible. . She badly miscalculated on your magic with the press.
Request # 1 for these data: I want to know how much the college pays Mr. Gonzalez and the legal staff yearly and how many lawsuits he has going on the district's behalf. Pinellas has four or five in the law section and is a smaller school district. It has a pile of lawsuits going on. How many does Hillsboro ugh County's school district have in the works now and with whom? This is public information. Send it to me.
To summarize, here's what I want: 1. Prentice-Hall book costs; 2. how long books kept; 3. what happens to them when they wear out; 4. How much the district pays Gonzalez yearly, 5. number of his paid staff and its cost, 6. how many law suits going on now and with whom; 7. How much the legal bills were for the district last year.
You make a hundred thousand dollars a year for a job you didn't have the major credential for, managerial experience, while your rivals did because Ms. Elia mistakenly thought you would get her golden publicity with the local press from your inside contacts.
Besides burnishing her image, you are supposed to fulfill the promise of the public records law and give a citizen public information requested. Do it. I await these data.
lee drury de cesare
Tampa Bay Grammargrinch Issue 3
tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com
People who don't get their essays pasted on the frig for excellence:
Bill Maxwell, Brian Ries, Keith Morelli, Tom Germond,Thomus Huang, Paul Guzzo, and Tom Tobin.
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Tampa Bay Grammargrinch Issue 3
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People who don't get their essays pasted on the frig for excellence:
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lee drury de cesare
tampabaygrammargrinch.blogspot.com
People who don't get their essays pasted on the frig for excellence:
Bill Maxwell, Brian Ries, Keith Morelli, Tom Germond,Thomus Huang, Paul Guzzo, and Tom Tobin.
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