Community involvement: With my children on their own for the last 10-12 years, I have not been participating in local/school organizations. In the past, I was President of the Cy-Fair Sports Association working closely with the various district employees to ensure a good relationship for the youth of Cy-Fair.
Why did you choose to live in CFISD? I moved to Cypress to get away from the big city hustle and bustle. What a difference 26 years make…!
Describe your involvement in CFISD: I participated in the “Prom Night” events to help keep this most dangerous of all nights safe for all.
Considering your skills and talents, what positive contribution would you make as a member of the Board of Trustees? I do believe that my background as a High School Physics/Math/Computer Science teacher and subsequent years as a financial accounting consultant/teacher will allow me to have a positive impact on analyzing the funding and budget decisions for the district from a conservative teacher’s perspective.
In your opinion, what are the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees? Quite simply, we must ensure that we provide the highest quality in basic education through discipline and excellence while we continue to ensure the least cost to the local tax payers; eliminating costs that provide no advantage to kids, teachers or tax payers always taking care to be open and forthright about issues and elections with full accountability to our tax paying citizens.
In your opinion, what critical challenges face the district, and what is necessary to address those issues?
- Better communication with the tax payers in the district. For the board’s credibility, it is necessary hold elections when the greatest number of residents will review our actions on bonds and other issues.
- We must remain committed to the idea that growth does not lead to massive indebtedness to our children who wish to remain to live and raise their kinds in the district.
- We must have innovative and logical ideas to control ever rising costs for energy and administration/paper work costs.
- We must increase our credibility with the tax payers with the quality of the product we deliver to their children. Specifically, we must address the unacceptable overall reduction in standardized test scores and graduation rates.
What challenges face the public education system of Texas? We are a district and a state that is rapidly growing. We have a system that under protects and under pays its major people assets in favor of massive brick and mortar projects. We overburden these assets still with reporting requirements (paperwork) that add little or nothing to the quality of education. We have a system that lacks the perception, real or not, of openness and accountability with our constituents as school taxes continue to rise yearly. |
