Originally Posted by
Mike
It sounds to me like the district needs to hire a management company to deal with the minutiae while the board only meets once a month, or quarterly to deal with the bigger issues. Of course, that's easy for me to say looking in from the outside through obscured windows.
I don't disagree, but to this point I have not succeeded in convincing my fellow board members that we need to hire a professional operations manager. There comes a point that you cannot always promote from within--and we passed that a long time ago.
Our office manager works hard but not necessarily smart--- which bleeds through the entire office staff.
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