Inquiring WBCSD minds want to know

At a recent West Bonner County School District board meeting, Superintendent Branden Durst shared with the community that he had been informed that morning of $896,859 in funding from last year’s levy, which can be spent on anything within that levy budget.

Superintendent Durst mentioned that this funding could very well be used to fully fund the coming year’s extracurricular programs.

Superintendent Durst is only a little more than a month into his tenure as the superintendent of WBCSD — a critical mind wants to know if this money was known about during the interim superintendent’s time in the position. Was the superintendent preceding her notified of this funding? If this is district constituency tax money, isn't it incumbent upon said district to notify its constituents of any and all funding available to them — especially when there was a new levy proposed (to the dollar amount of $4.7 million a year for two years) in May of this year?

Little attention is being paid to this huge win for WBCSD, brought about by the hire of Superintendent Durst via trustees Keith Rutledge, Susan Brown, and Troy Reinbold. If transparency and accountability matter to you (and you live in zones 2 and 4 in WBCSD), vote against the recall of Keith Rutledge and Susan Brown in the Aug. 29 election.

FAITH BRENNEMAN

Spirit Lake