The Finale-Part 2 -- A Strange Ultimatum
SINCE WHEN DOES COMPROMISE MEAN
SURRENDER?
Some months ago, Mercer School Facts
received a comment which urged critics of former Administrator Erik Torkelson
and HIS since deposed School Board to “compromise”. Sounds like a proper and reasonable
suggestion. But the remainder of the
comment gave away what was really intended.
“You will never get the people of
Mercer to agree with you so it’s in your best interest to just compromise,” read
the message.
In other words, everyone should
overlook what Torkelson and HIS former School Board got away with by doing what
they pleased, and it would not make any difference if Mercer voters elected
independent and honest board members, like they did with the new School Board
and when they elected Christa Reinert and Karl Anderson to the board.
But all of Torkelson’s minions are
gone, and so is he. Deanna Pierpont was
the last to be taken out of picture by Mercer voters in last April’s election. So, it is apparent that the people of Mercer
must have agreed with what the critics were saying.
The “compromise proposal” suggests that
we should forget the wasting of taxpayer dollars and the depriving our youth of
the education they deserved and move on.
There is not a scintilla of doubt
over who had controlled the Mercer School Board back then, and it was not Pierpont,
Kelly Kohegyi, Noel Brandt or Micki Pierce-Holmstrom.
A fitting response to this one-sided request
to compromise might be what General Anthony Clement McAuliffe said when his 101st
Airborne Division was surrounded in the Battle of Bulge and the Germans demanded
his surrender:
“Nuts.”
I can't find a way to enter an original post so I thought I would tag on here. Maybe the administrator could separate it for me, or at least address the issue.
ReplyDeleteTwo weeks ago the Iron County Minor reported that the Mercer School was being shorted, by the county, roughly $200,000. Could you please address what has become of that story? Is it true? Has it been resolved? What is the Board doing about it? Thank you.
I was told that Bob Davis the board president contacted the county and the WI department of revenue for clarification on this issue and was assured that the levy amount submitted after the November annual meeting for budgeting purposes, would be satisfied. One correction though is that the comment I heard during the zoom meeting relating to "shorted" was actually referencing the town of Mercer as the initial tax payment to satisfy the levy amount is collected at the town level and payment submitted by the Town for the January payment and potential February payment. According to what I heard on zoom during the meeting was the Town of Mercer was short $400k of which $200k was due to the school. The next round of payments would be paid by the County after the February payment and would be sometime in the August time period. It seems that the issue was resolved at least for the school. Can't comment on the town issue.
ReplyDeleteJeff Nehring resigned from the Mercer School Board!
ReplyDeleteDo we need to go after our county board members now? What is Opal Roberts, John Sendra, Tanner Hiller, and Tom Thompson doing to correct this issue? Aren’t they suppose to represent us and our town?
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