OBSERVATION: If members of the Sac Chamber/Main Street or Sac Economic and Tourism Development boards or people sympathetic to those organizations get a majority vote on the Sac City Council, They will have the ability to expand any TIF district to include areas that are not considered new construction and in which there is no danger of economic expansion. One reason this is sometimes done is as a political favor to business owners in the district TIF is expanded into that supported any given candidate during an election. (see City of Chicago). In smaller areas, this can also be misused as a replacement to having to bond to repair existing infrastructure. This remains true NO MATTER WHAT THE CURRENT CITY COUNCIL'S INTENTIONS ARE.
QUESTION: Are there any organizations in Sac County that are funded to any extent with tax payer money and have a history of hiding their internal motivations and machinations from the public for which wielding the decision about who gets TIF money would be a perfect vehicle with which to expand their influence?
FACT: If the Sac City Council sets up a TIF district, and five years from now, a majority of the council is composed of people who are also on the Sac City Chamber/Main Street or the Sac Economic and Tourism Development board, or is composed of people sympathetic to those organizations, the council will have the ability to re-designated the use of that money for use by those organizations, NO MATTER WHAT THEY MAY SAY RIGHT NOW.
OBSERVATION: Rick Hecht, a Sac County Supervisor seems interested, if there is going to be agreement between Sac County and the City of Sac City to TIF, to see the TIF sunset and not go on and on the whay that TIF's based on economic development seem to do.
QUESTION: Are there any entities in the county that might be compelled to put their hand out for money generated by TIF for use in economic development?
QUESTION: Are there any organizations in our county that might see low cost housing projects as beneficial to attracting low income workers for low paying easy to attract jobs?
QUESTION: Will those organizations that want to bring low paying jobs into the area be at the Sac City Council meetings with their hands out for taxpayer money to build housing?
FACT: Whenever you TIF, those funds are not available to the cities and the school for the amount of time for which you TIF.
FACT: The sate MAY choose to reimburse the school for around 5.42 per thousand valuation.
FACT: The Sac City Chamber/Main Street has been asking the city to set up a TIF district for years.
QUESTION: Who will be the first people lined up for a handout?
00:24
Approval of the minutes from May 16 and June 8
01:00
Software unlimited software training update.
01:35
Sac and Lake View offices to be closed week of July 4
01:55
Superintendent anticipates 0% allowable growth from the legislature
02:25
Preschool funding up in the air
02:50
Superintendent intends to hold a session to clean up board policies
- catching all of the WLVA and Sac references and changing them to ESC
03:21
Approval of series 600-900 board policies
03:41
Email no longer prohibited
04:09
Discussion of moving the requirement for getting bids from $5k minimum to $10k minimum.
- The bidding process discourages bidders who don’t think it’s worth the time to put in bids for a $5k job.
05:23
Discussion about payroll period for school employees
05:54
You heard the reviews of those policies
06:11
You don’t get a lot for five thousand dollars anymore
06:47
“I’m fine with all of the suggestions
06:56
Approval of policies policy changes
07:31
Approval of policies 600-900
08:21
Discussion of contracts for support staff
11:44
New hire will not get insurance
12:36
Discussion of contracts for coaching contracts
14:14
Chuck Brotherton not willing to talk about reservation he has re: coaching contracts publically
15:08
Approval of schedule B contracts
16:23
Approval of sports staff contracts
16:48
Contracts will go out as soon as they are printed
17:21
Discussion about approval of administrative contracts
18:49
Those are all three one year contracts
18:56
Discussion about proposed contract for Dr. Fiene
19:52
Approval of administrative salaries
20:33
Approval of Student Parent handbook
Parent teacher handbook will indicate that the parent will have to provide more details for children who call in sick
21:17
Students to be allowed cell phone between classes
22:21
Cell phones can be a valuable educational tool
22:54
“It’s kind of a philosophical switch”
23:27
Maybe we can teach a generation of them to use cell phone responsibly
24:02
I guarantee I’d use it to cheat
24:27
They could be doing that right now
25:28
It’s a slippery slope
26:07
If only 40 percent of the students have that technology in front of them then it’s not fair to the 60 percent that don’t.
27:19
Use of Soda in sack lunches is now prohibited
28:42
If I want to send my kid Gatorade
29:30
Discussion about keeping kids home/sending kids home due to cough
31:29
Could the nurse issue masks?
33:36
Discussion about late passes
34:45
You got a guy down, now kick him!
36:33
…kids and parents have claimed that the teacher was the cause…
…I don’t think the kids and parents are always wrong…
38:17
…make the table of contents match
38:45
Approval of amended parent teacher handbook
39:11
Discussion and approval of staff handbook
39:21
The only changes are to change the names to match the names of the people actually filling the positions.
40:00
Approval of staff handbook
40:18
Discussion of legislative priorities
45:55
We’re supposed to select the top five issues, and if they’re not the same as the 4A school they won’t be heard anyway
41:40
Approval of contracts
43:57
…and we’re thrill with the new people
44:17
Discussion of future agenda items and setting a date
- Next meeting in Lake View on July 18, 2011 at 6:00PM
- Discussion about instructional support levy
- Discussion about upcoming election
- Discussion about Legislative agenda
- ESC board to start approving all of the bill and approving the financials
- Tour of construction projects at the high school
- Changing policy to reflect meeting date and time preferences
- More clean up of policy language
47:44
Discussion about recent death of an administrator’s family member
- Discussion about specific examples of how death is officially dealt with by the school
- Next meeting in Lake View on July 18, 2011 at 6:00PM
- Discussion about instructional support levy
- Discussion about upcoming election
- Discussion about Legislative agenda
- ESC board to start approving all of the bill and approving the financials
- Tour of construction projects at the high school
- Changing policy to reflect meeting date and time preferences
- More clean up of policy language
