“THE COUNCIL SHOULD WITHHOLD money from the school board. The board is guilty of non-disclosure going back to the last election. They have the obligation to disclose what they were negotiating with the teachers for two reasons: Number one, some of those same members were up for re-election, and two, because there was a bond issue on the ballot. The public has the right to know what the fiscal health of the school (district) is and they are guilty of non-disclosure because they were hiding it. The council had every right to bring this out into the sunshine.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 2, 2007. Read the original PDF.