John Engen Robo-Call October 2015 Mayor Engen influencing MCPS election according to attorney Quentin Rhoades and missoula school watchdog

Support Our Schools FUNdraiser with the Salamanders - a fundraiser in support of the bonds

Support Our Schools FUNdraiser with the Salamanders



Click on the link above to read about a fundraiser to support the MCPS bonds - found by Quentin Rhodes as per the KGVO News talk Facebook page.

Mayor Engen's robo-calls require investigation - Guest column in the October 26th, 2015 edition of the Missolian

Click on the link below to read a guest column on the mayor's robo-calls using the Missoula County Public Schools robo-call system - may be a clear violation of Montana's laws in my opinion. Written by Missoula attorney Quentin Rhoads. [Later - When posting this article I was under the impression that the robo-call was not appropriate - however, a friend did some study on this issue and she doesn't believe that there were problems with the call. I will need to do more looking into the issue before I have a more clear view of the robo-call. - In other words, the mayor may not be "off the hook" in this matter.



Mayor Engen's robo-calls require investigation

Missoula County Public Schools: Proposals prompt many questions - Missoulian letter to the editor in the September 27th, 2015 edition

Click on the link below to read a lette to the editor regarding the upcoming school bond.

The writer has some good questions.



    missoulschoolwatchdog: Vote against the bond - this is not in the best interests of our community!





Missoula County Public Schools: Proposals prompt many questions

MCPS approves ballot language for bonds Missoulian article from the September 23, 2015 edition

Click on the link below to read a Missoulian article on the school bonds.



MCPS approves ballot language for bonds

 



           missoulaschoolwatchdog does not recommend voting for this bond (understatement)!

Chairman of the Board of Regents makes the most money of any public official in Montana!

Even though the following is not about Missoula's schools, specifically, I thought I'd include it on my blog.

Clay Christian is the highest paid public employee in Montana

The above is a screenshot of the MSN posting for Montana taken on September 21, 2015.

This morning I was logged on to MSN and I clicked on a link to an article reporting on the highest paid public official for all 50 states. For most states it was a college football or basketball coach. I knew that it most likely was not a coach for Montana's highest paid public official.

 The article had a picture display of each state's highest paid public official. As I was following to some degree the news regarding the salary of Clay Christian when he was appointed Commissioner of Higher Education I thought that this might be the guy with Montana's largest public employee salary. And it was!

His salary is $351,000. per year.

While the discussion of Christian's compensation was in the news many people spoke up on the blogs and weren't happy about this high salary. And now we see that it is the highest in the state! (Perhaps this was reported at the time, however, I did not read that it was the highest at the time.)

Local taxes: Has Missoula reached tipping point? Letter to the editor in September 11, 2015 Missoulian - one of the first of hopefully many to write against the MCPS bond

Local taxes: Has Missoula reached tipping point?