Broken Arrow Public Schools, Oklahoma

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Broken Arrow Public Schools is a school district in Oklahoma.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Oklahoma school district websites

[edit] The good

  • Budget is published.[1]
  • Board of Education members are listed, along with their contact information.[2]
  • District report cards available.[3]
  • Board of Education meeting dates, times, and locations are listed.[4]
  • Current Board of Education agenda is posted[5], along with minutes.[6]
  • Administrative officials are listed with contact information.[7]
  • Fee schedule for public record requests is posted.[8]
  • Contract bids are posted, current contracts are not available.[9]

[edit] The bad

  • Does not provide information on how to actually make public record requests.
Working for accountable government now


[edit] 2008 Controversy over Superintendent Jim Sisney

Broken Arrow school superintendent Jim Sisney began investigating the school's business relationship with Air Assurance, a heating and air conditioning business that contributed to the school's funding and also did business with the school. Sisney brought some accounting irregularities to the board members' attention, which resulted in Sisney filing a defamation lawsuit against Mike and Narissa Rampey, who own Air Assurance; Douglas Hudkins, a Broken Arrow optometrist; school board members Maryanne Flippo, Sharon Whelpley and Shari Wilkins; and school board attorney Doug Mann. Sisney's lawsuit says that Hudkins was openly accusing Sisney of stealing from the district.[10]

On July 15, 2008, the Broken Arrow school board was notified by counsel that they were violating competitive bidding laws regarding the school's contract with Air Assurance. That counsel was fired at a subsequent meeting. On Oct. 6, 2008, the Broken Arrow school board voted 3-2 to suspend Superintendent Jim Sisney. They also voted not to allow him back onto school grounds without prior approval.[11]

A Tulsa county judge approved a request from local businessman John Lare of Broken arrow to circulate a petition that alleges board members Maryanne Flippo, Sharon Whelpley and Shari Wilkins showed "willful neglect" in office when they denied a meeting quorum when they did not show up for a school board meeting on August 18, 2008. The petition also claims that the three showed "gross partiality and willful maladministration" on August 12th when they voted to hire the law firm Rosenstein, Fist and Ringold in addition to the district's legal contract with the Center for Education Law. Lare is also seeking the suspension of the three board members while they are being investigated, and filed a separate lawsuit against Flippo, Whelpley, and Wilkins alleging irresponsibility with taxpayer funds.[12]

Lare must collect about 5,000 signatures within 45 days, according to the Court Clerk's Office. If the Tulsa County Election Board verifies the signatures, a judge would turn over the case to the district attorney, and then a grand jury would be convened, Court Clerk Sally Howe Smith said.[12]

The Broken Arrow school board voted to fire Superintendent Sisney on October 23, 2008 with a 3-2 vote. Maryanne Flippo, Sharon Whelpley and Shari Wilkins voted to terminate Sisney, and Stephanie Updike and school board President Terry Stover voted against it. The Broken Arrow school board had voted 3-2 to prohibit public comment at the meeting.[10]

[edit] Transparency controversies

A proposal was given to the school board to make legal fees spent by the school more available to the public. Deputy Clerk Maryanne Flippo was not inclined to be open with the public stating, “I don’t believe the public is entitled to know these details. That is my job as an elected official,” she said.[13][14]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Budget
  2. ↑ Broken Arrow Board of Education
  3. ↑ Report Cards
  4. ↑ Broken Arrow Board Meeting Dates
  5. ↑ Board of Education Agenda
  6. ↑ Minutes
  7. ↑ Departments
  8. ↑ Fee Schedule
  9. ↑ Bids
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Tulsa World, "BA school board votes 3-2 to fire Jim Sisney", October 24, 2008
  11. ↑ Tulsa World, "BA superintendent suspended", Oct 7, 2008
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 KJRH, "Judge OKs petition in BA school board flap", October 2008
  13. ↑ BA Ledger, Legal expenditures detail, state audit shelved by BOE, April 1, 2009
  14. ↑ Get Right OK, School Board - We are autonomous of taxpayers, April 2, 2009


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