Where's Aileen, Part II

As a follow-up to Bongo’s “Where’s Aileen” post earlier this week, this dog did some more digging and unearthed the Community Relations Goals for District 158, which were approved on March 15, 2007, shortly before Mrs. Seedorf took her seat on the board and was named chair of that committee.

Now one would think that Seedorf, freshly elected in the spring of 2007 on a platform of improving the district’s relationship with the community, would have jumped right in and gotten to work on these five community relations goals. But here we are, almost one year exactly after the goals were approved, and Seedorf has done NOTHING to help the district achieve her committee’s stated goals.

Think Bongo’s barking up the wrong tree? Look at District 158’s website (click on "about district 158" then "board of education" then "agendas and minutes") and review her committee agendas and minutes. Most months her committee has no business to discuss. In other months administrators or other board members provide informational reports that are not discussed by the committee. Aside from asking Community Relations Coordinator Paul Benz to collect samples of other newsletters, Seedorf has not done anything.

District 158 did recently make strides toward it’s #5 goal when it started using the instant alert system to notify parents of important issues. But the credit for suggesting that system goes to Kim Skaja and not Aileen Seedorf. In fact, Seedorf never held a discussion on the issue and one Bongo reader said Seedorf was actually against the system, claiming it would just be used for political purposes.

Where’s Aileen? Who knows. Bongo certainly hasn’t seen her taking her committee work seriously. But then again, her mentor Larry Snow hasn’t exactly been burning the midnight oil working on his legislative committee either… and threatening to run for Senate against Senator Pamela Althoff doesn’t count as legislative committee work.