Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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If your child is at one of the programs run by Seattle Parks and Rec (if you do your program registration through a City of Seattle community center, that's probably you), you can call their "School Age Care Hotline" at 206.684.4203.
As of 1:30 today they plan to be open but ask that you pick up your child early if it starts to snow.
They seek out external information.
They plan ahead!
They try to anticipate future events!
They make pre-emptive decisions!, stick to them and communicate quickly and effectively.
I usually disagree with their calls ;-), having a few too many recent memories of no-snow days... but I have to hand it to them for being on top of it.