GrokTALK! January 17th 2015 – The Videos: Ken Eyring on the Windham School Board no bid contract - Granite Grok

GrokTALK! January 17th 2015 – The Videos: Ken Eyring on the Windham School Board no bid contract

Segment 4                                                           Bonus Segment

Not only has this event become clear that the actions of the Chair of the Windham School Board show ill will, it also shows a condescending attitude by Windham’s elected representatives towards its citizens / taxpayers / voters, it is showing a dangerous pattern of such going on around the State of NH: Gilford, Dover, Windham, Hampton.  In each case, elected representatives have decided that, having now been elected, they are now “above all that” when citizens wish to discuss (or even protest) seemingly snap decisions or decisions that push forward an agenda that goes against the beliefs of many in that community.  At worst it becomes “the good old boy network”; at worst, it is a misguided sense of importance and grandeur of status that is completely wrong – and dangerous.

That is called Ruling, not Good Governance – and we fought a war against the former in order to have the latter.   One makes decisions on a whim or on a personal agenda; the other has a well ordered progressions of information gathering, debate, and decision making that is based on well known and open procedures that are open, not just to the decision makers, but to the voters, the taxpayers, and other interested parties.  It is not about “just DO something” that is needful – it is about doing the RIGHT thing that needs to be done and do it in a fashion that all can say “open, transparent, fair, and defensible:

  • Open – everyone can be a part on the process and not just “the selected few”.
  • Transparent – anyone from the outside can have an “audit trail” available to them that will hold all details concerning the ongoing process – data, conversations, papers, debates, decisions – that can be traversed backward and forward or any point in between to be able to understand the basic question: “How’d we get theah from heah”?
  • Defensible – at any point in time, those in charge can make a reasonable argument that this was the right thing – AND they followed the right process.

To that last point – THAT is the ONLY way how we, the Voters, can hold our elected officials Accountable?

Yesterday, that question seemed to be in doubt – you decide as you watch Ken Eyring and Tom Murray talk with the Groksters.

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