Pt 4. A NH's School Boards Shenanigans, is any town USA.

This is the continuing in a series of a friend, blogger, and Lady Liberty Extraordinaire Kimberly Morin, and her articles about the Windham School Board. They were originally featured on the examiner.com as well as Granite Grok. Morin is fantastic in her investigative journalism, and shined the spot light of truth on the School districts', inappropriate practices and actions. She began this investigation back in January. Recently however, a member of the Windham SB has contacted the examiner.com claiming that she was defamatory in her reporting and that she never contacting them. Morin claims that to be lies, and she has backed her reporting with facts, links and even has snapshots of involved parties FB pages. For as she began to report she clearly poked the bees nest.  The examiner.com site, caved and removed the posts. So much for Freedom of the Press, or Speech  for that matter. Granite Grok remains loyal to the truth, and refuses to pull the posts. I don't believe that any elected or non elected official should ever be given the power to squelch any part of our Bill of Rights. If we lose the 1st Amendment, we have lost it all. Here is a story of the Windham School Board, but it can and is any town USA...

(It was exactly one week from the Rochester Cenergistic presentation, to SB's vote on a contract that had not been seen by anyone in the Rochester School District)

Was the Windham School Board scammed or part of the scam?

January 13, 2015 

Kimberly Morin

In the articles posted yesterday, it was argued that the Windham School Board (WSB) only had 48 hours to review the Cenergistic presentation and do research on the company and other alternatives. In fact, the agenda and proposal were posted on December 31st according to board member Dennis Senibaldi. So the Windham School Board had the information and proposal from Cenergistic for about a week before the board meeting. Even if you discount the holidays and weekend, the WSB had at least a few days to vet Cenergistic. That’s what actually makes this even worse.

It took literally 30 seconds to search the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s database to discover Cenergistic isn’t registered to do business in the state. It took only a few minutes to call the SOS’s office and have someone on their end conduct a search as well. Yet not one member of the board; the superintendent or the business administrator bothered to check this measure? Should this not be a standard process when conducting business for any government funded program?

Because the Windham School Board didn’t bother to perform their due diligence in researching Cenergistic or other alternatives they have now agreed to a contract with a company that isn’t legally doing business in New Hampshire. Clearly the board can’t be relied on to fully vet and research the companies or contracts they are asked to sign. In reality, Adam Steel, the Windham Business Administrator, should have fully vetted this company and the contract before pushing it to the board. Did he fail and if so, why?

It’s the school board’s job to verify what they are handed for proposals. They aren’t supposed to just push them through without full discussion, research and public input. Obviously the WSB doesn’t believe any of these things need to be done before signing a huge contract like the one with Cenergistic. Did they even have a lawyer review the contract? If they didn’t, they may need a lawyer now to explain why they approved a contract with a company that isn’t legally doing business in the state. Is it possible the Windham School Board was scammed or are they part of the scam?

http://www.examiner.com/article/is-the-windham-school-board-being-scammed-or-are-they-part-of-the-scam