Garcia's first address to the board: Go Team!

The School Board Notes appear to be taking a well deserved summer vacation. I have been too. So I don't have any notes or other reporting to share on the 8/14/2007 BOE Meeting. But we do have the meeting webcast on-line, and I strongly recommend that you take the time to watch the start of it.

This was Superintendent Garcia's first BOE meeting and his first address to the board is a very impressive Go Team! speech.

He hits all the right notes, in my opinion. He takes note of the recent record of solid accomplishments in the district, especially the Prop A facilities improvements. He lasers in on the pressing need to address the budget problems. The need to build trust in the community to build support for the district. The opportunity to collobrate with other urban California districts to address common problems. He commits to work with the board and to be accountable and collaborative through sustained, routine teamwork. He looks forward to moving beyond the endless public input to identify clear priorities and focus the district, his admiistration and the board, on acccomplishing the priority objectives.

Very impressive opening. Its will take 7:00 minutes. Check it out.