WHO'S AFRAID OF SCHOOL SECURITY?

Lynn schools to upgrade security

Let's look at this story through the eye of a poet, albeit a poor, disabled one.

Seems strange to me that a 56 minute long session behind closed doors. I told THOR that night was I thought strange, The topic on the agenda for the executive session was security, an allowable reason for the session. I know this because of all the meetings I attend.

I think some of the drama was created because the MAYOR didn't recite the standard disclaimer before the session started. Let me reiterate, SOME.

Now let's take a look at who was in the meeting, the MAYOR,  the rest of the LSC, the police - OFFICER FERRARI and CHIEF COPPINGER, LPS ADMINISTRATION, and ISD MIKE DONOVAN,.

Noticeably absent from the meeting was the hacker in a basement closet in a parking garage in CHINA who can open electronically secured locks using only an Internet connection.

One thing that is fundamentally wrong with what was going on is not who wasn't at the table but who was. MIKE DONOVAN, from ISD, was there, WHY?

Oh yeah, ISD is in charge of the CUSTODIANS. To be brutally honest, ISD plays a larger role than that, a much LARGER role. ISD controls everything to do with the physical stuff that goes on in and at the schools.
MIKE DONOVAN works for WHO?

Not LPS or DR. LATHAM.

No, it's the MAYOR. And there are questions about whether or not she even wants to even have anything to do with the school.

REALLY?

Well, it's all part of her job and it's a 120 million dollar job! That means she is at the head of a QUARTER-BILLION DOLLAR agency (if you wanna call city government an AGENCY or say a COMPANY)/

So while the MAYOR was BOSS of everybody at the table,

“There are small improvements to a small number of schools — some issues that need to be improved for a small amount of money,” Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy said.

SO.....

that means......

YOU CAN'T BLAME LPS SECURITY SUFFERINGS on anybody but the MAYOR. You see, she not only controls the purse strings - it's her purse. Remember all that FREE CASH she is setting on.

That means the MAYOR is taking a CALCULATED RISK with SCHOOL SAFETY because LPS and the entire LSC are at her MERCY because ISD has veto power over any and all CAPITAL improvements.

It's not only "WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?"....

BUT.....

"WHO'S WALLET IS IT??.