On the morning of May 23, 2018, I called in and made a comment regarding the closing of Cold Springs School, a nice school I attended when a young child growing up in Missoula in the '60's. I strongly believe that Cold Springs School needs to remain open. The school district will say it needs a lot of maintenance. Yes, it does, why? The district mismanaged funds to fix schools.
I happened to mention that I believed (and witnessed) the part played by former MCPS Trustee in the building of a new school up Miller Creek in the Maloney Ranch subdivision area. The idea of building a new school was coupled with the closing of Cold Springs School. (In fact, and I believe it was a nefarious move, the new school was at the time of the bond named Cold Springs School and then after the bond was renamed the Jeanette Rankin School. I mentioned that his role was in looking after his property, DJ Lane, near where the new school, renamed the Jeanette Rankin School.
Here is my FB on the TB (Talk Back) FB page comment following my on-air comment.
" OK - I just called into KGVO’s Talk Back program when MCPS superintendent Mark Thane was a guest. My comment centered on the Cold Springs and Jeanette Rankin School fiasco. Now, as usual, I must give my 2 cents about what Thane said as I hung up after my remarks. Re: Is Drake Lemm really an honest man and could he be involved in shenanigans on the MCPS School Board. Yes. People that followed the school board when he served know that he was not an upstanding citizen - sorry, he just wasn't, at least not when he was on the school board. If one attended meetings when he was on the Board you would have heard his comments - many in favor of closing elementary area schools even though he was a HS Trustee. Then in many meetings, like I said on air, Lemm advocated for a school up Miller Creek. If one finds his property, DJ Lane, and then follows where the new school is built how could one not think that it would be a possibility that Lemm would be behind this closure/new school fiasco? It is common knowledge that a public school in a neighborhood increases property values Jon, a nice guy and one of the hosts of Talk Back wondered on air where I was going with this comment and did not finish reading it - I was going with the truth. This school district is in the straights it is in because too many people won't really say what is going on. Am I supposed to forget everything I saw when I suffered going to those God-awful MCPS meetings and then just go along with people that say Lemm is an ethical person when I witnessed otherwise? Wouldn't I feel like a traitor to myself?'
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