School Committee Member Gifts

'If they have been 'throwing money away at the schools' they certainly have been missing this place.'

'Hanson - committee of four.'

"Coronavirus, masks requirements, falling test scores, student violence - we need to be able to pray in school!"

'What we need is a decision, not more foot-dragging.'

"The state of graduates literacy levels is shoking and both my colleegs agrree that there maths isn't much better."

'It may not be our usual business lunch, but it will sure impress the hell out of the budget committee.'

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'Ooops! My mistake. That was the yearly budget estimate, no the monthly estimate.'

'There's an absence of leadership in this authority,we need to explore the possibility of thinking about setting up a sub-committee to look into it.'

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

"There's no need to go round the table - I know who I am."

Plain English group.

"The vote is tied. Half of us think the proposed plan is astoundingly asinine, and the other half finds it stupid beyond belief. Let's try to find a middle ground here, people!"

"The Board just wants to be sure you're well supported."

'There'll be a special meeting of the board concerning the recent generous contribution of stock.'

'I'm so proud of Trevor for getting an early start on his negative campaign for Student Council.'

"The steering-committee three are we. Run it by us, and we'll see."

'That's it, in a nutshell.'

'Excellent - it's unanimous!'

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

"I suppose the first thing to do is form an escape committee."

"The good news is, the children in the district have strong writing skills. The bad news is, we have sustained a letter-writing campaign from the third grade."

'Ed here has some sort of problem with his membership on the visitation committee, Reverend.'

"Thanks a bunch. I'll just run these by our committee and pass them along."

'So, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the financial report is approved.'

'Before I read the investment committee's report - I would remind everyone that I never asked to be on this damn committee.'

'I think we should form a committee to look into this 'individual initiative' thing.'

Hudibras - 9 - The committee.

"Could you please put my Mom on your no call list?"

'Why don't we just close the schools, and do it all with correspondence courses!'

'Mr.Shumway here is our visiting ethicist.'

'We have 10 billion dollars sitting around. Let's give it to the country that calls the United States the most names.'

'Community wok?'

'Before I read the investment committee's report - I would remind everyone that I never asked to be on this committee.'