Now this finally makes sense, thank you very much. I wondered how you would
have staggered term in both even and odd numbered years.
Andy Driscoll
Saint Paul
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength, and bid defiance to the laws of the country."
--- Thomas Jefferson,1816
> From: "Dennis Schapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: jola
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:51:15 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Mpls] school board election cycles
>
> <<So the school board folks shifted the cycle by installed some
> one-time-only three-year terms (members elected in 1998 incumbents
> served three years that were up in 2001, now the 1999 class is getting
> theirs in 2002).>>
>
> We've got some confusion here...
>
> Part of it is a confusion between election and service years.
> .......So, Sharon Henry-Blythe, Ross Taylor and I were 2001-elected but
> began service in 2002, as noted on the web site. We serve three-year terms.
>
> Part of it is factual
> .......those folks previously elected to our seats, elected in 1997
> (service Jan. 1998-Jan. 2002), served full four-year terms.
> ........The first three-year cycle applied to the
> Farmer-Gallmon-Johnson-Shreves cohort, elected in 1999 and serving Jan.
> 2000-Jan. 2003. Ours is the second and last three-year term.
> ......Terrell Brown is correct. The term-end notation on the web site is
> mistaken, unless those creating it know something I do not...It
> indicates that Sharon and I serve through 2004 and Ross through 2005. As
> I understand it, all our terms end effectively with the last meeting of
> 2004 but officially with the first board meeting of 2005.
>
> Elections scheduled: Nov. 2002, Nov. 2004.
>
> Clear?
>
> Dennis Schapiro
> Board of Education
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