Money for school agreement is so far a no-show
State funding for Columbia’s shared services agreement with ELANCO has apparently fallen through. Dr. Robert Hollister, superintendent of Columbia Borough School District, made the announcement at January’s Committee of the Whole meeting. The statement was in response to Board Director Kathleen Hohenadel’s question regarding the status of the grant. The anticipated funding is for an amount up to $250,000 for up to three years to pilot the program and was to have come from the PA Department of Education.
Hollister said he has not gotten a response from Senator Ryan Aument’s office, despite several inquiries. ”I’ve not heard a thing. That’s not good news,” he said.
Hollister asked residents to contact legislators, but was not overly optimistic. “Phone calls always help, but the other side of that story is this state is in dire financial consequences. I’m operating as if that money is not going to show up,” he said.
The grant was previously discussed by former Superintendent Ken Klawitter at Columbia’s August 2016 Committee of the Whole meeting. Klawitter said the bill authorizing the grant was the first of its kind in Pennsylvania. “They wrote it specifically for us, because we were the first ones legally to do this,” he said. He added that he had received an autographed copy of the bill and a signature pen indicating funding would be made available to pilot the program.
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Not heard a thing. Yet he continues to collect his paycheck off of our backs.
THE ETHICAL MEMBERS OUR SCHOOL BOARD CAN REGAIN CONTROL AND STOP THE UNETHICAL TRAIN THAT CREATED THE ELANCO AND THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS POSITION.
THERE ARE SOME GREAT NAMES BEING FLOATED TO RUN FOR SCHOOL BOARD WHO DESPISE THE UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR OF CERTAIN CURRENT MEMBERS , AND WHO ARE CURRENTLY ORGANIZING, TO DISPLACE THEM.
THE GOOD SENATOR FROM YORK COUNTY IS AN ETHICAL MAN AND A PERSON OF INTEGRITY!
MORE TO FOLLOW!!!
Hope this person enjoys sending out that possibly, questionable resume' again and again.
Unethical behavior created this position!
A total farce and another embarrassment for the town that we love.
These people should be arrested!!!
This constitutes unethical behavior and a true conflict of interest, which is a crime.
The children of Columbia are suffering from this persons' false sense of self worth. Teachers are leaving because of this person and this persons' poor judgement.
This whole process of one person creating a self serving position is reprehensible and Columbia schools are fast becoming the laughing stock of county educators because of this self serving person.
We all have the power to instruct the banks to withhold the tax payments from escrow until the last possible day, even better if we all would suck it up and pay at the end penalty period just one year. These delayed payments would be an attention grabber.
This is our town...these are our schools...these are our children ...we must be active...they count on our silence....Crowd every meeting until this nonsense with Elanco and the director of operations is removed permanently.
All concerned citizens will have a voice and this corruption will be addressed.
The list of names of people of integrity, who are considering running for school board, is growing.
More to follow.
Support the few board members who have integrity. They need our help!
LNP has no trouble reporting about a pickup truck with a Confederate flag ,but they refuse to report on this important corruption issue that effects all taxpayers.
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