Does Scott Joftus deserve a full term?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

My problem here isn’t so much with Joftus but MCPS spending federal Covid money on stuff like this when there are so many pressing needs. The bocce ball sets are a drop in the bucket compared to this. I don’t really understand the people at MCPS who make these terrible decisions- are they corrupt or just so lazy and unimaginative to come up with better ways to spend the money?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Pretty much everyone was aware once he got the job. You’re cute but you’re not helping by simply not voting people in because status quo.

Pretty much everyone? Who? After he was appointed, but not before he was appointed? Why didn't he disclose the conflict of interest in his application?

He did disclose it in his application to be on the board, and he verbally mentioned it in his interview, both of which were publicly available. He has recused himself from all votes relating to Kid Museum.

Why would you lie about this when it is so easily fact checked.

Here's Scott Joftus' application to be on the Board of Education. There is no mention of his wife or her company.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C8LLTQ57A2D3/$file/Joftus%2C%20Scott.pdf

There is no public record of Joftus' interview. The public wasn't able to watch that interview. Explain again how there was "public" vetting of this secret?

Tue, November 30 10:00 AM District 3 Candidate Interviews
List of Interviewees
*Meeting not televised

Yes, the public was able to watch the interview, because I, a member of the public, watched all of them. Perhaps the links aren't up anymore, but at the time of the interviews last fall, they were made public.

There were never any links. They weren't public. There was only limited seating in the room and that filled and there was no other access.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU08EUmGi1KyJHhQR_2k91s-swJ7d071RJ8-wAwxM9hh5KwQ/closedform

Wrong. I watched them from my laptop.

In your imagination. Where's the link you supposedly watched?

[Anonymous]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/11/30/finalists-for-school-board-vacancy-would-focus-on-superintendent-search-covid-19-recovery

Here’s Caitlyn’s article at the time. It appears that they eliminated a number of candidates in a closed session prior to the round of 8 interviews. It is unclear if these interviews were broadcast publicly or not. They were in an open session because Caitlynn was in the room, but unclear if anyone outside the room could tune in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/11/30/finalists-for-school-board-vacancy-would-focus-on-superintendent-search-covid-19-recovery

Here’s Caitlyn’s article at the time. It appears that they eliminated a number of candidates in a closed session prior to the round of 8 interviews. It is unclear if these interviews were broadcast publicly or not. They were in an open session because Caitlynn was in the room, but unclear if anyone outside the room could tune in.

Gonna miss Caitlynn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

My problem here isn’t so much with Joftus but MCPS spending federal Covid money on stuff like this when there are so many pressing needs. The bocce ball sets are a drop in the bucket compared to this. I don’t really understand the people at MCPS who make these terrible decisions- are they corrupt or just so lazy and unimaginative to come up with better ways to spend the money?

I thought purchasing bocce equipment was inspired to ensure that all children can participate in physical education and an excellent use of funds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

Because the Super and Board of Ed has deemed it a worthy organization to partner with for the education of kids in MoCo. That started well before Joftus joined them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank god no one voted for dawn. She really showed her true (drunk) colors. She supported Esther Wells doesn’t even know how to spell basic words and doesn’t know how MCPS runs, but sure! Vote for her bc Margery smelkinson told you to.

Joftus' wife on the Kid Museum board should have been reason enough to either not award 4 million dollars of federal covid money to kid museum, or Joftus should never have been appointed (not voted in) into Pat's vacant position. 4 million should have been enough funding for every age-eligible child in MCPS to receive an annual pass (without a discount), so where did all the money go?

People need to wake up and realize what's going on here. There is no way I will vote for any of these BOE incumbents ever again.

Does anyone know how many full time staff are employed? The range of the salary?

Of course not. It's a private company. Funded with public dollars, but you don't get to know anything how the money is spent and there's no audit. Have fun guessing.

It's a 501c3. They file publicly.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/454070908/download990pdf_03_2022_prefixes_43-47%2F454070908_202006_990_2022032319804564

Joftus' wife got $64K in salary in 2020 (latest year I could find) to run the place. That's less than a moderately qualified teacher in MCPS gets.

And she should be paid out of MCPS Operating Budget funds INSTEAD of a teacher in a MCPS classroom because why?

MCPS pays Kid Museum for services rendered. They're a vendor.

What services? Vendor of what? Looking forward to your posting of the contract, invoices and payments.

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/staff-bulletin/all-in-kid-museum-partnership-help-prepare-our-students-for-their-futures/