Sunday, June 17, 2012

LAST CHANCE: SPLOST Oversight Committee Applications Due Tonight by Midnight!

(click headline for full text and a link for the SPLOST Committee Application)

From: Get the Cell Out - Atlanta
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012
To: splostoversight@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us
Subject: Question

If the purpose of the citizen’s oversight committee for SPLOST funds is to allow volunteers from the public to help oversee the process by which our public funds are being spent to ensure there is no deviation from the voter-approved project list, then why are you asking them to sign a non-disclosure agreement?

Isn’t this supposed to help ensure the transparency of the process?  How will they be able to ask as our guardians of public trust if we can’t actually trust them to be permitted to tell us everything they learn?    Isn’t that they whole point of their existence on the committee?
Please respond. 

Thank you,
GTCO-ATL

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: DeKalb Schools Communications Office, 404-486-3710

DeKalb Schools to Appoint Citizens SPLOST Oversight Committee

June 1, 2012 – The DeKalb County School District invites members of the public to volunteer
their services for a 12-member Citizen’s SPLOST Oversight Committee. The advisory
committee, expected to begin meeting in August 2012, provides for citizen review of the voter approved SPLOST project list.

Interested DeKalb County residents who want to be considered for the committee should provide
their information online at http://goo.gl/ZfoSV no later than Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 11:59 p.m.  Only online applications will be accepted.

Qualified candidates must be citizens who reside within the boundaries of the DeKalb County
School District, may not be members of the Board of Education or employees of the School
District, and may not have any economic interest in any of the District’s projects.

Experience in accounting, architecture, auditing, construction, engineering, finance, K-12
education, legal, planning, project management and/or real estate is desired.

Members must be volunteers who can dedicate at least two hours each quarter to meeting,
generally in the evenings. Members must pass a background check and sign a non-disclosure
agreement.


Questions about the Citizen’s SPLOST Oversight Committee may be emailed to splostoversight@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us

For more information about the DeKalb County School District, visit www.dekalb.k12.ga.us.

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1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard
Stone Mountain, GA 30083-1027
678-676-1200

Board of Education
Dr. Eugene P. ‘Gene’ Walker, Chair
Mr. Thomas E. Bowen, Vice Chair
Ms. Sarah Copelin-Wood
Mr. Jesse ‘Jay’ Cunningham, Jr.
Ms. Donna G. Edler
Ms. Nancy Jester
Mr. Donald E. ‘Don’ McChesney
Dr. Pamela A. Speaks
Mr. H. Paul Womack, Jr.

Superintendent Dr. Cheryl L. H. Atkinson
(bold names are up for re-election on July 31, 2012)

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