Federal Complaint: Hostile Work Environment in the Lunchroom

  Text of complaint to the USDA-OCR 17 February 2014 DELIVERED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL & CERTIFIED MAIL: 7012 2920 0000 7124 9073   Mr. Carl-Martin Ruiz – Director, Office of Adjudication Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 300 7th Street, S.W. Rm. 541 Reporter’s Building, Mail Stop 9410 Washington, D.C. 20250   Re: Sex Discrimination in the Salt Lake City School District  Dear Mr. Carl-Martin Ruiz, I am currently … Continue reading

School District Responds to GRAMA Request: Lunch Payment System

  On February 10, 2014, I sent an email to Business Administrator Janet Roberts, asking for a copy of the contract that the District has with the Payments Plus Company. Janet replied that there is none and instead sends me a copy of the Request for Proposal. I then asked her for a signed copy of the RFP and she states that there is none: PDF Link:Gmail -MyPaymentsPlus I then sent a GRAMA request to … Continue reading

Salt Lake City District Backs off PR Firm After Lunch Fiasco (Tribune)

Lunch fiasco » Officials now plan to deliver an apology — and cupcakes — to Uintah Elementary. By Lisa Schencker | The Salt Lake Tribune  First Published Feb 26 2014 01:01 am • Leaders of the Salt Lake City School District have backed off the idea of hiring a public relations firm after national outrage over the trashing of dozens of kids’ cafeteria lunches last month. The district board’s president, vice president and superintendent had decided to … Continue reading

Exposing the School Board Cabal: PR Firm, Really?

  PDF Version of the Letter 21 February 2014 Delivered Via Electronic Mail Kristi Swett, President ℅ Board of Education 2256 South King Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84109  Re: PR Firm Questions  Dear President Swett, This letter is in response to your email that I received late last night with the subject of RFP. I hope you realize that your email does not shed any further light on why this was done in secret … Continue reading

School Board President Breaks Her Silence on the PR Firm (email)

PDF Link of Email The email is rather “wordy”, in case you miss it, the board president is stating that the subgroup of the school board that is making all of the decisions has now flip-flopped on hiring a PR Firm TEXT OF EMAIL: From: Kristi Swett Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:10 PM To: Heather Bennett; Laurel Young; Doug Nelson; Tiffany Sandberg; Rosemary Emery; Michael Clára Cc: Janet Roberts; McKell Withers; Jason Olsen; John E.S. Robson; Kristina Kindl … Continue reading

Michael’s Public Relations/RFP GRAMA Request (Letter)

  Link to PDF Version of the Letter TEXT OF LETTER: 20 February 2014   DELIVERED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Mr. McKell Withers Salt Lake City School District 440 East 100 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111-1891   Re: GRAMA REQUEST: Public Relations Firm     Dear Mr. Withers, Pursuant to Government Records Access Management Act (GRAMA), Utah Code §63g-2-204: I am requesting a copy of all records (a book, letter, document, paper, map, plan, photograph, … Continue reading