Cd'A School District cancels special board meeting

The special meeting of the Coeur d’Alene School District's board of trustees set for 5:15 tonight to discuss the residency of Zone 1 Trustee Allie Anderton has been canceled.

NIC BOARD: Goals are to clean up messes they have made

During the public comments section of the Jan. 24 meeting of NIC’s Board of Trustees, a community member asked for certain trustees to stop making inappropriate, derogatory and intimidating remarks to those giving comments to other trustees and to any spectators. That request was immediately followed by an inappropriate, derogatory and intimidating response by one of the trustees. Was that request beyond understanding, or did the trustee simply need to feel more powerful by demoralizing someone?

GRISSOM, THOMPSON: Good for Lakeland students and parents

Election day has come and gone and that warrants some reflection. As a mom of three in the Lakeland School District, the election of our school board trustees had my attention. What direction would voters want our community headed in? In 2019, Ramona Grissom and Michelle Thompson were elected. During their four years on the school board, these two trustees helped to re-open the schools in the fall of 2020 without face masks, worked to keep our schools focused on education and advocated for parental rights.

School trustee's residency resolved

Board meeting to discuss matter canceled

The Wednesday evening special meeting of the Coeur d’Alene School District's board of trustees to discuss the residency of Zone 1 Trustee Allie Anderton was canceled.

LIBRARIES: Blank’s resignation was a true loss

Community Library Network Trustee Katie Blank resigned — a true loss of leadership and institutional knowledge. She’s been a protector of the free exchange of ideas and information and a shining example of citizen participation. Ask why.

North Idaho College will drop appeal over Swayne reinstatement

North Idaho College trustees will drop an appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court over a Kootenai County judge’s decision to reinstate NIC President Nick Swayne.

Community Library Network trustees to present board vacancy nominations today

Special meeting at Post Falls Library begins at 2 p.m.

Trustees of the Community Library Network will present nominations today to fill the board vacancy left after former trustee Katie Blank resigned June 16.

NIC: Trustees’ ‘stupidity or insanity’

The NIC trustees voted 3-2 to contract with Stanley Freeman of the firm Eversheds Sutherland, based in Washington, D.C., “to provide legal services to the college in regard to accreditation matters.” The firm is an excellent law firm.

NIC trustees debate board policies

Ahead of a required update to North Idaho College’s accreditor, four trustees met Wednesday for a special meeting where they debated proposed changes to board policies.

COMMUNITY LIBRARY NETWORK TRUSTEES: Don’t believe in community

If we thought the libraries were safe to stay open after the CLN Trustees’ ineptitude was revealed, we were wrong. The Trustees are now here to take away another part of the library network: community.

CLN: No Sunday closures

Work continues on insurance, materials collection policy, disaffiliation from American Library Association

It's official: No libraries in the Community Library Network will close Sundays. "If the CLN board of trustees did in fact have a valid approval vote of closing on Sundays, it is now rescinded," Chair Rachelle Ottosen said Thursday morning in a motion during a regular meeting of the board at the Pinehurst Library. The motion was unanimously approved by trustees.

LIBRARIES: Watch authoritarians in action

For decades library trustee roles were nonpartisan. Yet over this last year, the Community Library Network majority trustees have shown themselves to be extremist. That the end justifies the means is evident in how the majority treats fellow trustees, library staff, the press and the public.

EDITORIAL: NIC trustees avert yet another disaster

Budget proposal could have further jeopardized accreditation

CDA library board seeks trustee

Library trustee wanted

RESIDENCY QUESTIONS: Attempt to stifle trustee’s voice

I am dismayed that speculation regarding a possible/temporary relocation of a school board trustee ended up on the front page of our local paper and even more dismayed that the CDA School Board of Trustees is holding a special board meeting to discuss this.

NIC trustees examine governance problems

North Idaho College trustees examined how behavior at public meetings has contributed to the governance problems at the center the show-cause sanction issued by its accreditor.

NIC trustee meeting rescheduled

Board will meet Jan. 24

PLASS: ‘Try harder’

This letter is in response to CLN Trustee Tim Plass requesting Director Eccles to “try harder” in opening the Post Falls library while water mitigation is happening.

Thirteen eye Cd'A library board seat

Thirteen people have applied for an opening on the Coeur d'Alene Public Library Board of Trustees.

Citizens for Cd'A Public Schools endorses McAndrew, Tenbrink

Citizens for Coeur d’Alene Public Schools, the umbrella organization for the YES! Campaign, announced its endorsement of James “Jimmy” McAndrew and Heather Tenbrink for the Nov. 7 school board trustee race.