Good morning.
It’s a sunny and warm day ahead for Whitewater, hitting about 80 degrees this afternoon.
There’s a school board meeting tonight, beginning at 6 p.m., to interview two candidates for district administrator. It’s an open session for interviews, followed by a closed session for deliberations, with the possibility of an announcement thereafter. The meeting agenda is available online, although as of this post it provides less information than has been announced or published previously. There’s no violation in this, as the district need not rely on its own website to publish written announcements. Written publication can be through a third party. See, Wis. Stats. §§ 19.81-19.98.
It would be prudent for the district to use its own website, though, as its primary means of communication, with agendas, etc., also published elsewhere. When hiring an administrator or other district-wide employee, the district would do better to publish meeting dates and agendas, and a packet of information with supporting materials, on its main page, as the most prominent item available.
The process is a rushed business, but even a poor process may produce, every so often, a good result.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has published news from the front — if the front were close by, and this were 1832:
1832 – Atkinson starts up Rock River in Black Hawk War
On this date General Henry Atkinson and the Second Army began its trip into the Wisconsin wilderness in a major effort against Black Hawk. The “Army of the Frontier” was formed of 400 U.S. Army Regulars and 2,100 volunteer militiamen in order to participate in the Black Hawk War. The troops were headed toward the Lake Koshkonong area where the main camp of the British Band was rumored to be located. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 93-94]