Cave Creek Unified Board to Vote on Approval of Override election

Buried deep on the public information page of the district’s web site is a supposed press release, supposedly released last Thursday that says the governing board will vote tomorrow evening (5/24/11) on whether to approve an override election for this November.

So this post is not about the override election, as much will be discussed about this in the coming months, but the fact that the district hides this from the community so no one can have any say.

There was no notice on the district’s home page, no notice on its Twitter account, a notice released on Facebook 14 hours ago, no notice in any school newsletters (that we could find), no notice sent out to the community newsletters, AND the agenda and packet for tomorrow's board meeting STILL are not posted (as of 1:40 PM for a meeting in about 28 hours). Additionally, we found nothing in the Arizona Republic about this. Knowing Mary Beth, the Arizona Republic reporter that covers CCUSD, we will probably read about this on Friday and hear about the vote results on Saturday or next Wednesday. (If you saw this news somewhere else, please send us proof and we will correct).

The lack of transparency here is horrible but clearly a political move to not allow any dissent.

So go ahead and read the ‘press release’ here, but don’t bother wasting your time. It is preordained and there is no room for debate or openness in Cave Creek Unified.  Remember that not only does this involves property taxes, it also carries with it a cost in the 10s of thousands in fees to the county to be on the ballot and thousands in lawyer’s fees to come up with the wording.

Update:  Apparently the newsletter is buried so deep you cannot even navigate to it via the district website, you can only get to it through the Facebook link. We wonder how many older voters in our community are on Facebook.

Update 2: Someone emailed us to say that in their latest school newsletter they were told about a vote on activity and sports fees at the governing board meeting but nothing about an election vote.