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Football foils and open meetings
Published Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Some things get folks fired up, and football might be one of them. Just ask the folks in Goshen who petitioned a local court to stop the hiring of a new football coach at Goshen High School, claiming the superintendent and school board haven’t followed a thorough job search process.
The court is expected to make a ruling about the petition this week and meanwhile, a group of vocal Goshen residents were on-hand for the Pike County Board of Education meeting on Monday to protest the proposed hiring of a new football coach at Goshen. The group of residents who attended the meeting want board members to hire a local candidate, Robin Snyder, who curently coaches at Charles Henderson Middle School, and is opposed the hiring of Mike McCombs, who was recommended by principal Al Griffin and superintendent Mark Bazzell.
At issue in the petition, though, are allegations of clandestine meetings between the superintendent, principal and school board members – meetings which violate the spirit and intent of the open meetings law. If these meetings took place, with the intent of discussing the open position and the hiring of McCombs or any other individual, then the residents of Goshen and Pike County will have bigger worries than football coaches.
We hope the football coach issue can be resolved, with minimal conflict and consternation. At this point, two men’s careers are at stake.
Then, we hope we have a quick resolution to the petition before the court. We want to know if the law has been broken and, if so, what consequences these entities will face.
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Posted by yatta (anonymous) on June 16, 2009 at 11:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
While we are at it, why don't we cast a vote for a new superintendant! I would like to see my vote count again and not be taken away by the board.
Greg Price doesn't seem to follow what the voters want with a message like the one posted in yesterdays paper.
"I think the point is escaping everybody here,” Price said"
...with that many people making an appearance for something they believed in, what exactly is escaping them?
Posted by daisy (anonymous) on June 18, 2009 at 4:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The point is that the superintendent and principal did their job correctly. What if we all wanted this or that for our schools or towns and tied up the legal system with trivia things of this nature when our courts needed to be taking care of serious business? I am sure the people of Goshen thought they were doing what was right. What I do not understand is that they waited until the coach had been selected before they started the public outcry. Why were they not calling about Snyder earlier? So many questions unanswered and to late. It is embarrassing that we have citizens (Goshen residents) that would rather take a back door approach to situations than being honest and straight forward with things from the beginning of the search for a coach.
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