LTISD Info

Strangely, the district has not advertised about the upcoming election for LTISD Board of Trustees. In fact, I just ran a search on the district’s web site and the only recent mention of an election was the failed tax rollback election of November 2009.

Anyone interested in running for the school board has until March 8 to file. Filing for the school board election requires that you select a campaign finance chairman, fill out the requisite forms (see below) and submit your election filing paperwork with the school district by close of business on March 8.

Appointment of A Campaign Treasurer By A Candidate (Instructions)
Code of Fair Campaign Practices [Optional]

There could be some good news in all of this: Susan Tolles hasn’t filed for re-election, yet! Somehow I doubt that Alex Alexander would be running for Susan Tolles‘ position without Susan’s knowledge and Rocky’s blessing.

UPDATE: According to the Lake Travis View, Susan Tolles will NOT be running for re-election!

As of February 12,  three candidates have filed for the upcoming election (see list below). You may obtain a copy of a candidates election filing form by following the link attached to their name.

Alex Alexander, Position 3 (Susan Tolles position)

Jason Buddin, Position 4

Alan Williams, Position 5

It might be a good time to remind everyone that all three of these candidates, Alex Alexander, Jason Buddin and Alan Williams supported the recently defeated plan by the district to coerce more money out of tax payers.

Isn’t Jason Buddin on the Board of Directors of the Lake Travis Republican Club? I would only assume that would mean that Jason is a Republican? How can a supposed business man and Republican back a tax increase?

I might also remind you that both Jason Buddin and Alan Williams have voted to increase the salary of Rocky Kirk, our overpaid and ineffectual Superintendent. Recently, during a “special called meeting” of the LTISD Board, both Jason Buddin and Alan Williams voted to “re-arrange” Rocky’s compensation. Reading this peculiar “change” to Rocky Kirk’s contract sounds foreboding. Perhaps a way of hiding another of Rocky’s undeserved pay raises? More on this later.

By the way, doesn’t Alan Williams “operate” a Chick-fil-A? Yet the district does not have a record of any conflict of interest documents filed by Alan Williams resulting from his operation of a business which does business with the district (according to the district’s response to my latest public information requests regarding any conflict of interest filings by Alan).  Do you know how much business the district does with Chick-fil-A? Answer: a lot! Just go to your kids cafeteria in any LTISD campus and see for yourself. I would think that Alan Williams would at the very least like to clear the air on this matter. More on this later.

Update: I recently received a phone call from Alan Williams regarding my comments questioning any conflicts of interest that he might have between his ownership of a local Chick-fil-A franchise and the school district. He assured me that his Chick-fil-A does not do business with the LTISD and that he and the owner of the Bee Cave Chick-fil-A agreed to not compete against each other for the LTISD’s business. He also went on to say that he was told by the district (wonder if it was Susan Bohn’s advice?) that he did not need to complete a conflict of interest form. This is interesting since many of the Board members have completed conflict of interest forms for such trivial things as having a checking account at Bank of America. Nevertheless, Alan appears to be a man of integrity. Therefore we must conclude that Alan does not have a conflict of interest between his position on the LTISD Board of Trustees and his ownership of a local Chick-fil-A franchise.