Phillips and Cox on "the Proposal"

According to the Star News, Director of Schools Del Phillips had this to say about Vanessa Silkwood's impromptu proposal to cut the schools budget:

“I’ve never seen this before,” Phillips said. “I can’t make decisions and manage this system with this type of [proposal] and answer publicly three minutes later. I think that’s a little disingenuous to the staff.”


Board Member Beth Cox also expressed skepticism, saying:


“We’ve already brought up the outsourcing issue,” Cox said. “We’ve already voted that down. I don’t think we want to revisit that. If the board doesn’t really support some of these items, there would be no reason to have staff delve into that issue.”