Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 8:22 pm
The Idaho Press-Tribune made an audio recording of Nampa Classical Academy's meeting Monday night. Due to the length of the meeting, the audio is posted in three parts.
Click here to listen to Part 1.
Click here to listen to Part 2.
Click here to listen to Part 3.
Yes, the last hour of charter meeting was not recorded. But stay tuned ...
Monday night's Nampa Classical Academy board meeting (See story here) turned out not to be an official meeting because the board did not have a quorum. But the remaining board members sat at the front of a packed room of upset parents and staff and answered some questions, dodged others and pointed fingers at each other for a grueling 6-plus hours. There were more than 100 people there.
We had a reporter there at 6:30 p.m. And I showed up at 8:15 p.m. Three board members — one of which is an ad hoc member, left at midnight, indicating that they had heard enough for the night.
Apparently the board members for Nampa Classical Academy gathered Monday night with the intent to remove Mike Moffett from the board. But without a quorum, they couldn't do that. The four board members at the meeting indicated that they did not think the school could survive with Mike Moffett on the board. Remember that three people resigned last week. (See Sunday's story.)
Nearly six hours into a meeting, Mike Moffett revealed after several questions, that he's not sure what it means yet, but the Idaho Charter Commission has requested a meeting with Nampa Classical Academy.
Board member Mitch Miller was told at least two different times that he was out of order after interrupting with protests about "hacked" e-mails that board members had written and were later discovered.
Finally, Mike Moffett's wife addressed the group during the final hour. The tape recorder, which had been placed on top of a tall speaker in the front of the room, apparently had fallen and stopped recording.
I didn't discover that until the end of the meeting when I retrieved it.
Mrs. Mike Moffett, however, revealed information that the board members did not and would not discuss. Even though the tape recorder wasn't working, I took copious notes, but there's a lot to sort out. We have questions out to several people.
If you have some solid information that could help us, please email me at vholbrook@idahopress.com or call me at 465-8110.
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