The Budget Advisory Committee [apparently just for show on paper] has not met once this year, even with a call from four trustees [using Bylaw 9360 (3) which requires a meeting to be called on that basis but which was denied by the Chair [“It’s not our practice”], yet a school closure has gone ahead. Budget options are presented with ideas for savings, without direct trustee involvement at the generative stage when various scenarios and options are accepted or rejected for public presentation and discussion. [Some colleagues on this Board call that degree of involvement “micromanagement”. I would counter that the electorate expects that degree of involvement in exchange for paying me $1200 a month.]