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“If we’d had those reports four months before,” Sethi said, “our entire thought process of consolidation and financial constraint to meet our budget would have been very different.”
In my opinion, this is a bit of revisionist history. Go check the 24:40 mark on the September 23 Board Workshop video where the admin and board were provided with alarming early estimates from the demographer BEFORE the final decisions were made. The one person on the board who absolutely refused to think about revisiting the consolidation options (even the ones already presented by the admin initially) was Trustee Sethi. You even pointed this out in Vol. 4, No. 34 ("Trustee Manish Sethi REALLY doesn’t want to see any new options").
“If we’d had those reports four months before,” Sethi said, “our entire thought process of consolidation and financial constraint to meet our budget would have been very different.”
In my opinion, this is a bit of revisionist history. Go check the 24:40 mark on the September 23 Board Workshop video where the admin and board were provided with alarming early estimates from the demographer BEFORE the final decisions were made. The one person on the board who absolutely refused to think about revisiting the consolidation options (even the ones already presented by the admin initially) was Trustee Sethi. You even pointed this out in Vol. 4, No. 34 ("Trustee Manish Sethi REALLY doesn’t want to see any new options").
Thanks, Dan.