Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2021 9:23:50 GMT -7
From: T. Austin [mailto:ta9759472@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 4, 2021 8:19 AM
To: Krisell Creager-Lumpkins <KCreagerLumpkins@blracademy.org>
Cc: BoardBLRA@blracademy.org; Andrew Franko <afranko@d49.org>; allboardofeducation@d49.org; Kottenstette_B@cde.state.co.us; S Lewis <scottalanlewis@netzero.net>; Rick Dahlman <rdahlman@blracademy.org>; Athena Rehorst <arehorst@blracademy.org>; Cassandra Prosch <cprosch@blracademy.org>; Leanne Weyman <lweyman@accelschools.com>; ron@pansophiclearning.com; jeven@blracademy.org; jvoltz@blracademy.org; rwilkinson@blracademy.org; jamesw@blracademy.org; jlynn@blracademy.org
Subject: Banning Lewis Parents Request Immediate Action
Dear Mrs. Creager-Lumpkins,
Thank you for your many years of simultaneous service to the Banning Lewis Education Foundation and the Banning Lewis School Board. It is now time for you to immediately and amicably resign your appointed and extended position(s). The reason this is required is prescribed in your own board by-laws and eligibility policies, specifically items 2.5 and 2.6, and section 3.0 which read,
1. 2.5 Individuals who have been involved in any documented incident that disrupted instruction at BLRA or any other school are ineligible to serve in an elected or appointed position on the BLRA Board of Directors
6. 2.6 Individuals who have been involved in any document incident concerning threats to directors, staff, or students of BLRA or any other school are ineligible to serve in an elected or appointed position on the BLRA Board of Directors
3.0 Change in Status of Elected or Appointed Individual
3.1 At such time that a status change occurs resulting in an individual’s election or appointment becoming noncompliant with Section 2 that individual must resign their position within twenty-four hours
Any failure or refusal beyond this notification to be accountable to the board by-laws, eligibility policies, and Colorado Sunshine open meeting laws will be filed as separate and individual grievances against you and also any board member or officer who remains complicit in failing to follow your policies. Our community, administrators, staff, and students deserve a board that honors commitment to the stated mission, its code of conduct, bylaws, and eligibility policies, and the laws of the state of Colorado.
The many incidents pertaining to your ineligibility and their respective CORA-requested documents of support have already been filed with Banning Lewis Prep Academy, your school board, individual school board members and officers, three law firms, the authorizer D49, the management company Accel Schools, Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Freedom of Information Commission, and the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission. You acknowledged recently via email that you are also aware of these many concerns across our community. At present, we are awaiting formal review of these and many other documented grievances against the school board and its officers.
Even though you and your board have been aware and in receipt of these for an extended period of time, I have linked those documents with a brief explanation here.
1. Your disruptive behavior at an athletics tournament resulted in the BLPA parents and fan section being asked to leave and athletic directors corresponding about the severity of the incident (BLRA Eligibility Policy 2.5)
2. Banning Lewis coaches and athletes filed formal letters of complaint against your attempts to abuse your power as a board member and coach. This is a clear violation of the BLRA Board Code of Conduct, specifically items 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, and most importantly, 21.
3. A formal letter of complaint by a student and her family about threats and intimidation by you at the student's graduation ceremony was filed with the BLPA principal and the school board president (Board eligibility policy 2.6)
4. As a member of the BOD elections committee, you appear to have engaged with other officers on your board in violation of Colorado Open Meeting laws and your own BLRA Board policy for meetings to take action on a financial/employment contract your president has with the hired school management company. In addition, you appear to be complicit in what appears to be deception when misleading and false minutes (item 6.1.5) were posted about this BOD elections committee review, that if it occurred at all, has no documentation supporting that it was properly conducted. On October 12, your board meeting minutes show (6.2) that you 2nd the motion to approve the minutes in question of 9-30-21.
The full packet of documentation for this item is attached.
While there are remedies through legal process for violations of open meeting laws (those actions can and should be overturned by courts of law), our request here is with respect to your eligibility to remain on the board and for your board to enforce its own prescribed remedies. Seeing these multiple documented incidents and that they have not been remedied as required by the school board or its officers, the authorizer D49, or the management company, we respectfully ask for your resignation to begin restoring trust, transparency, and accountability.
Please submit your amicable resignation as required by your board policies within the next 24 hours. Please also request that the school board include on its agenda for December 14th an action item to accept your resignation with a full unanimous vote as has been customary in recent months. Doing so will be one small but necessary step forward in restoring confidence in the board and ensuring that our students, staff, administrators, and coaches have a safe, engaging, collaborative, and stable learning environment in which to thrive.
Sent: Saturday, December 4, 2021 8:19 AM
To: Krisell Creager-Lumpkins <KCreagerLumpkins@blracademy.org>
Cc: BoardBLRA@blracademy.org; Andrew Franko <afranko@d49.org>; allboardofeducation@d49.org; Kottenstette_B@cde.state.co.us; S Lewis <scottalanlewis@netzero.net>; Rick Dahlman <rdahlman@blracademy.org>; Athena Rehorst <arehorst@blracademy.org>; Cassandra Prosch <cprosch@blracademy.org>; Leanne Weyman <lweyman@accelschools.com>; ron@pansophiclearning.com; jeven@blracademy.org; jvoltz@blracademy.org; rwilkinson@blracademy.org; jamesw@blracademy.org; jlynn@blracademy.org
Subject: Banning Lewis Parents Request Immediate Action
Dear Mrs. Creager-Lumpkins,
Thank you for your many years of simultaneous service to the Banning Lewis Education Foundation and the Banning Lewis School Board. It is now time for you to immediately and amicably resign your appointed and extended position(s). The reason this is required is prescribed in your own board by-laws and eligibility policies, specifically items 2.5 and 2.6, and section 3.0 which read,
1. 2.5 Individuals who have been involved in any documented incident that disrupted instruction at BLRA or any other school are ineligible to serve in an elected or appointed position on the BLRA Board of Directors
6. 2.6 Individuals who have been involved in any document incident concerning threats to directors, staff, or students of BLRA or any other school are ineligible to serve in an elected or appointed position on the BLRA Board of Directors
3.0 Change in Status of Elected or Appointed Individual
3.1 At such time that a status change occurs resulting in an individual’s election or appointment becoming noncompliant with Section 2 that individual must resign their position within twenty-four hours
Any failure or refusal beyond this notification to be accountable to the board by-laws, eligibility policies, and Colorado Sunshine open meeting laws will be filed as separate and individual grievances against you and also any board member or officer who remains complicit in failing to follow your policies. Our community, administrators, staff, and students deserve a board that honors commitment to the stated mission, its code of conduct, bylaws, and eligibility policies, and the laws of the state of Colorado.
The many incidents pertaining to your ineligibility and their respective CORA-requested documents of support have already been filed with Banning Lewis Prep Academy, your school board, individual school board members and officers, three law firms, the authorizer D49, the management company Accel Schools, Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Freedom of Information Commission, and the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission. You acknowledged recently via email that you are also aware of these many concerns across our community. At present, we are awaiting formal review of these and many other documented grievances against the school board and its officers.
Even though you and your board have been aware and in receipt of these for an extended period of time, I have linked those documents with a brief explanation here.
1. Your disruptive behavior at an athletics tournament resulted in the BLPA parents and fan section being asked to leave and athletic directors corresponding about the severity of the incident (BLRA Eligibility Policy 2.5)
2. Banning Lewis coaches and athletes filed formal letters of complaint against your attempts to abuse your power as a board member and coach. This is a clear violation of the BLRA Board Code of Conduct, specifically items 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, and most importantly, 21.
3. A formal letter of complaint by a student and her family about threats and intimidation by you at the student's graduation ceremony was filed with the BLPA principal and the school board president (Board eligibility policy 2.6)
4. As a member of the BOD elections committee, you appear to have engaged with other officers on your board in violation of Colorado Open Meeting laws and your own BLRA Board policy for meetings to take action on a financial/employment contract your president has with the hired school management company. In addition, you appear to be complicit in what appears to be deception when misleading and false minutes (item 6.1.5) were posted about this BOD elections committee review, that if it occurred at all, has no documentation supporting that it was properly conducted. On October 12, your board meeting minutes show (6.2) that you 2nd the motion to approve the minutes in question of 9-30-21.
The full packet of documentation for this item is attached.
While there are remedies through legal process for violations of open meeting laws (those actions can and should be overturned by courts of law), our request here is with respect to your eligibility to remain on the board and for your board to enforce its own prescribed remedies. Seeing these multiple documented incidents and that they have not been remedied as required by the school board or its officers, the authorizer D49, or the management company, we respectfully ask for your resignation to begin restoring trust, transparency, and accountability.
Please submit your amicable resignation as required by your board policies within the next 24 hours. Please also request that the school board include on its agenda for December 14th an action item to accept your resignation with a full unanimous vote as has been customary in recent months. Doing so will be one small but necessary step forward in restoring confidence in the board and ensuring that our students, staff, administrators, and coaches have a safe, engaging, collaborative, and stable learning environment in which to thrive.