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CLASSROOM RAMBLES
DAVID STILL II PHOTO
LITTLEDEAD SCHOOLHOUSE-One of theredportables at Hyannis East Elementary Schoolwasdemolished
by DPW staff in all of 12 minutes (clean-up took longer) Wednesday morning. Demolition was prescribed
as part of the remedy for cleaner air and better healthat the school. The roughly 30-year-old "temporary"
classroom had long outlived its lifespan.
Grenier in town today
Superintendent-to-be Patricia Grenier was
scheduled to participate in today's weekly
leadership meeting of school principals. In-
terimSuperintendent TomMcDonald told the
school committee Tuesday night that Grenier
planned to spend the day in-district meeting
with staff to begin the transition.
Hyannis Westprincipal
applications due today
Applications for the next principal at
Hyannis West Elementary School are due in
today.
Long-time Principal Fred Scully retired
in December and Michael O'Toole serves as
interim principal at the school.
According to the job posting, the posi-
tion would be "[responsible for providing
leadership in curriculum needs and program
development , student placement, oversees
supervision and welfare of pupils, interprets
and enforces School Committee policy and
administrative regulations, shares in develop-
ment and identification of School Committee
policy, coordinates services to complement
primary school functions (cafeteria , main-
tenance, outside agencies, etc.), interviews,
I
k
recommends, and allocates staff within the
school.responsible for budget development
and expenditures according to school needs,
conducts long-range plans."
The salary range for the position is $85,000
to $93,000.
Final day for facilities manager
applications
The newly-created position of school fa-
cilities manager is drawing applications from
around the country and around the world,
according to interim Supt. McDonald.
As of Tuesday's school committee meeting,
19 applications had been received from as far
away as India.
According to the job posting, "the primary
responsibility of this position is to ensure all
School Department facilities are effectively
maintained and operational.The position also
will be responsible for the development and
implementation of preventative maintenance
and long-range capital planning programs."
McDonald said the plan was to narrow the
field to three, who would then be forwarded to
Patricia Grenier,theincomingSuperintendent,
for a decision.
The salary range is $70,000 to $75,000.
Task force to look at
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Tom Bernardo of Chatham;
state Sen. Rob O'Leary, who
helped draft the lawthat cre-
ated the agency 16years ago;
and Elliott Carr, a member
of the Cape Cod Business
Roundtable who chaired a
similar 1994-95 review com-
mittee, to serve as a selec-
tion committee. They 're
charged with assembling a
list of 20 potential task force
members, of which the com-
missioners will select 15 to
serve on the task force.
The task force willhave six
monthsto complete its work
-to make recommendations
on how the commission can
"effectively address"itsplan-
ning, regulatory and techni-
cal assistance charges, and
how the commission and
towns can better implement
Local Comprehensive Plans
and reconcile differences
between regional and local
interests. The commission
will then have six months
to report back to the county
commissioners on progress
on the recommendations.
Doherty said the selection
committee would have to
meet before he could say
how quickly it would come
up with its list of nominees,
but said he was thinking in
terms of "acouple of weeks."
He said he was encouraged
that seven or eight people
already had expressed inter-
est in serving on the task
force.
"It looks like this is some-
thing that has caught some
of the public'simagination,"
Doherty said said. "It might
have legs."
Both Carr and O'Leary
had agreed to serve on the
selection committee before
the commission voted, and
expressed support for the
idea of an external review.
O'Leary said it will be
useful to look at the way
the commission functions,
how it does business, and
whether its mission needs
to be refocused.
"Every once in a while it's
ahealthy thingto do,painful
as it might be," he said.
Carr said he believes it has
been "obvious for several
years" that the commission
is a lightning rod.
"Personally I think it is
time to take a step back and
take another look at what we
might change," he said.
But Bernardo , while re-
serving judgment on the
potential value of the task
force, was sharply critical of
the process, and particularly
the speed , with which the
commissioners advanced it.
He also expressed doubts it
will be apolitical, citing the
composition of the selec-
tion committee - Carr and
Doherty are members of
the Business Roundtable ,
and Doherty, Bernardo and
O'Leary willbe campaigning
for political office this year.
O'Leary and Doherty are
runningfor re-election,while
Bernardo plans a formal an-
nouncement within 30 days
that he will mount a chal-
lenge for Doherty's seat.
Bernardo said he first
learned of the plan when
Doherty and his fellow com-
missioners presented it to
the Assembly last week, by
whichtime Carr and O'Leary
already were on board. Af-
ter a long discussion that
he characterized as short
on substance, he asked for
more information before
deciding whether to serve
on the selection committee.
He said he expected to hear
back from the commission-
ers next week.
When he learned Wednes-
day afternoon the commis-
sioners had named him to
the committee, Bernardo
said, "I was blown away, not
because they don't have the
right to do it but beca ise we
were going to continv e the
discussion."
He said he will ask the As-
sembly delegates to tell him
whetherto participate inthe
nominating process.
Most of Bernardo's ques-
tions -the task force 'sgoals,
mission and timeframe -are
addressed in the document
the commissioners adopted,
but he was not in position
to comment because he had
not seen it.
One of his questions was
not addressed , though:how
the task force's work will fit
with other ongoing examina-
tions of the commission, one
by the Assembly's Charter
Review Committee and the
other the commission'sown
every-five-years review of its
Regional Policy Plan.
To Doherty, the answer to
that is self-evident: both of
those reviews are the work
of the county government
itself , and their purposes
are different. The task force
is to be made up of people
outside the county govern-
ment. That , he said, is the
point.An externalreview will
have a different perspective
than internal ones.
The task force is to be
made up of "persons rep-
resenting varying interests
including but not limited
to regional representation ,
business interests, environ-
mental interests and other
areas pertaining to the ac-
tivities of the commission.
Business interests, along
with some town officials, no-
tably Hank Farnham,the new
president of the Barnstable
Town Council, have often
been amongthecommission's
most strident critics, excori-
atingit asobstructinghealthy
development.
Environmentalists gener-
ally are among the most ar-
dent supporters of the com-
mission's mission, though
they often have been disap-
pointed by the development
that has taken place.
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