Following a non-public session on February 5 to discuss personnel matters, the Nottingham School Board re-entered public session to accept the resignations of Superintendent Ronna HasBrouck and Business Administrator Bill Roy.
We must be very careful. This entire 'our own' SAU thing was driven by the same long standing leader ship, as have many other decisions for more than a decade. And now people are fooled into blaming two people who essentially inherited the problem. Again, I submit that the retirement and resignation are votes of no confidence. Perhaps the SAU experiment should be revisited and we should take this as an opportunity to consider what is really the right next move. Doug, when I was a selectman between 2012-2016, the glycol issue at the school was known, and when it was suggested to correct the issue that was being solved with glycol, it was dismissed as couldn't be fixed. I believe it may be in budget committee, or joint select board/school board minutes likely 2013 or 2014. There are former school board members who also are well aware.
To me it is unclear what is going on. I can as easily think of reasons these employees would wish to resign as I can think of reasons why their resignations would be asked for.
For example, HasBrouck is clearly uncomfortable dealing with the heating system issues, and this discomfort appears deep. It's not just outside her area of expertise, it appears to be outside of her range of possible curiosity. HVAC issues will hang over the school for at least the next two years. Dealing with these doesn't appear to be anything she's interested in doing. It likely makes great personal sense to her to retire a bit earlier than she may have planned just to avoid this stuff. This also leaves her with an option of jumping back into the workforce in a couple of years under the excuse that she found she wasn't really ready for retirement.
In my research on the school's heating issue I went back only to 22/23. I suppose I should go looking in much older minutes.
I wonder if the business admin is the bigger concern. Of course finding a superintendent is a pretty big ordeal as well. Not sure if I heard correctly but someone mentioned there can be part time superintendents to assist while a board searches for permanent role. A lot on the school boards plate now with this added.
The heating issues preceded both of them. This is a vote of no confidence on the leadership.
I thought that Roy might have been involved in recommending the EMC boiler proposal, but he wasn't. The May 3, 2023 minutes show that it was the former Business Administrator who did this, Ron Campo. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CdzCLotZ3NNfSPq8R_LtIg0A_4nJdrcJ/view
We must be very careful. This entire 'our own' SAU thing was driven by the same long standing leader ship, as have many other decisions for more than a decade. And now people are fooled into blaming two people who essentially inherited the problem. Again, I submit that the retirement and resignation are votes of no confidence. Perhaps the SAU experiment should be revisited and we should take this as an opportunity to consider what is really the right next move. Doug, when I was a selectman between 2012-2016, the glycol issue at the school was known, and when it was suggested to correct the issue that was being solved with glycol, it was dismissed as couldn't be fixed. I believe it may be in budget committee, or joint select board/school board minutes likely 2013 or 2014. There are former school board members who also are well aware.
To me it is unclear what is going on. I can as easily think of reasons these employees would wish to resign as I can think of reasons why their resignations would be asked for.
For example, HasBrouck is clearly uncomfortable dealing with the heating system issues, and this discomfort appears deep. It's not just outside her area of expertise, it appears to be outside of her range of possible curiosity. HVAC issues will hang over the school for at least the next two years. Dealing with these doesn't appear to be anything she's interested in doing. It likely makes great personal sense to her to retire a bit earlier than she may have planned just to avoid this stuff. This also leaves her with an option of jumping back into the workforce in a couple of years under the excuse that she found she wasn't really ready for retirement.
In my research on the school's heating issue I went back only to 22/23. I suppose I should go looking in much older minutes.
Good they lead the school to the heating issues with there poor management and poor decision making!
I wonder if the business admin is the bigger concern. Of course finding a superintendent is a pretty big ordeal as well. Not sure if I heard correctly but someone mentioned there can be part time superintendents to assist while a board searches for permanent role. A lot on the school boards plate now with this added.