Leadership in Missoula's Neighborhood Councils NEED to Look out for the perservation of our neighborhood Schools!

This Saturday many of the neighbors were working on landscaping along Van Buren.

Prescott School Missoula was in the neighborhood for other business and stopped briefly to visit with some of the people involved in this work. psm was explaining concerns about the loss of our neighborhood school due to a lease to a private school.

psm was handing the people a sheet of information regarding psm's concerns with Prescott School. At this location was a member of the Lower Rattlesnake Neighborhood Council.  psm has visited with this man a few times during the last 10 years (!) regarding psm's concerns with the Prescott/MIS lease. This member of the Lower Rattlesnake NEIGHBORHOOD Council was NOT interested in psm's sheet of information and stated that he did not have any reservations with the lease. Others in this group said that they appreciated the information on this topic.

If a person is to serve on a neighborhood council he/she has an obligation to look into ALL problems going on within the neighborhood. WE IN THE RATTLESNAKE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITHIN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE LOSS OF THE USE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL. And this man will not even take the sheet of information and read it.

In the opinion of psm, this man is letting down the people of the Rattlesnake with his lack of leadership on the Lower Rattlesnake Neighborhood Council. He needs to step down so that some one else can serve in his place that will advocate,(or at least not obstruct), for one of the most important aspects of a neighborhood, its neighborhood school. To not do so is show disloyalty to the neighborhood just as the majority of the members on the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees.