Opportunities to See/Talk to Seattle School Board Directors

Director Joe Mizrahi is going to be at the John Hay PTSA meeting on Monday, September 16th at 6 pm in their cafeteria. 

Director Sarah Clark will be at the Magnolia Community Council meeting on Tuesday, September 17th at 7 pm at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Center. 
 
School Board meeting on Wednesday, September 18th at 4:15 pm.

September 25th Director Gina Topp will have a community meeting on September 25th at the West Seattle Library from 5-6 pm. To note; there will be a district community meeting on "well-resourced schools" from 6:30-7:30 pm but I don't know where yet in West Seattle. (Editor's note; I got those times for Topp's meeting wrong.)

To find out that community meetings that the district/Board are setting up will allott just ONE HOUR is a disgrace. Because that's too short, they will take 20 minutes of it to talk about the proposals, and you will be facilitated. If I were there, I would be speaking up to Board members about this. It's just insulting.

No word if any of the district community meetings will be available for viewing. 

PLEASE, if you hear of any other opportunities to talk to Board directors, let me know at 
sss.westbrook@gmail.com.

Comments

WS said…
Hi, you have that the other way 'round from what we reported yesterday after hearing directly from Director Topp. On 9/25 her meeting is now 5-6 pm. The *tentative* time for the district meeting is 6:30 pm.
https://westseattleblog.com/2024/09/school-closures-new-time-to-talk-with-your-seattle-school-board-director/ - Tracy @ WSB
9/15/24, 10:37 AM
Benjamin Lukoff said…
The Magnolia meeting is going to be on Zoom for those who can't make it in person, and Director Clark is now going to be appearing remotely as well. See https://magnoliacommunitycouncil.com/meetings
9/15/24, 5:12 PM
Melissa Westbrook said…
First, I'm not surprised Clark won't be there in person. She seems to not like meetings in general. Second, her district isn't in Magnolia; I wonder why she's going to speak at that meeting.
9/15/24, 5:31 PM
Benjamin Lukoff said…
Magnolia is in her district https://www.seattleschools.org/about/school-board/meet-the-board/district-two/
9/16/24, 9:48 AM
Melissa Westbrook said…
And Benjamin is right. I went on auto-pilot and forgot the Board had to redraw their boundaries. Magnolia Elementary is in Director Clark's district.
9/16/24, 10:00 AM
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