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<DIV><FONT size=2>I agree that the whole process that evolved here was/is
inappropriate for a public institution for which transparency, fiscal
responsibility, and accountability is more than just a reasonable
expectation. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The process was wrong and it has led to an decision that is
clearly wrong for a number of reasons.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, Mues is not the only culprit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Based on materials and other information made available to me,
I agree that Mues is severely under qualified for the position which he now
occupies. Not only that but it appears that his original hire was prompted
more by some external pressures than by his qualifications, meager as they
are; it seems that elevating him to and establishing him in his
present position was former UI President White's way of giving a final finger to
the UI on his way out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, the total fault doesn't not rest alone with
Mues.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Where is present UI's president's oversight? Did he not
understand the financial, community relations/economy, and efficacy of the
results of this decision? How could this proposal even get to the
SBOE in the first place?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>And to the SBOE: If you do not want to take the time and
effort to scrutinize decisions very carefully, the get the hell off the board
and let some more conscientious take your place.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
83843</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:waf@moscow.com">waf@moscow.com</A><BR>208
882-7975<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra
Lund</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 16, 2010 8:52
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Daily News OUR
VIEW: UI's disdain for citizens whofund it is appalling</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Many thanks
to the friend who sent this to me!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I think this
editorial hits the nail squarely on the head: Mues is not only utterly
unqualified for his position at the UI, he is also fundamentally unsuited to
work for a public institution where public accountability & transparency
are crucial. This is just the most recent in a string of sneaky
decisions that track back to him where those outside of the administration are
kept in the dark before -- after decisions -- are made. I can just see
Mues sitting behind his desk at the UI rubbing his hands together in glee at
the coup of keeping the whole AlliedBarton issue secret until it was too late
for anyone to have any effective input.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I agree with
the editorial that while this kind of crapola is suitable at a private
college, it is wholly inappropriate at a public institution where even UI’s
top administrators are accountable to those who pay their salaries, and that
would be we-the-taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Further,
there’s something grossly obscene about the UI’s decision to pay a private
security contractor nearly $400K during these tough financial times where
student fees were just jacked up 9.5%, programs have been cut <B>into </B>the
bone, severe understaffing of all but the top level of administration is
rampant, and all faculty & staff but those making less than a living wage
in Idaho – a paltry $22,360 – were forced to take a very real pay cut in the
form of mandatory furloughs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Saundra
Lund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Moscow,
ID<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The least I
can do is speak out for those who cannot speak out for
themselves.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">~ Jane
Goodall<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d">-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 24pt">OUR VIEW: UI's
disdain for citizens who fund it is appalling<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Posted on:
Monday, August 16, 2010<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We apparently
are too stupid to consider properly how the University of Idaho plans to spend
our money. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The university
is trying to upgrade its security services, and it turns out that is going to
cost a lot more money, some $300,000 more, than it took last year when it was
all handled by the Moscow Police Department. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What is the
necessity for that upgrade? What dire risks are facing our local institution
of higher learning to require this substantial increase in spending of public
tax dollars. It must be pretty important, considering the budget-cutting going
on throughout government, including our colleges and
universities.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When Daily
News reporter Holly Bowen asked that question Tuesday, before the increase had
been approved, she was told the UI was "not making anyone available." There
would be no comment on this big increase in state spending until after
Thursday's meeting of the Idaho State Board of Education where the proposal
was to be considered, approved and funded. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">After that
meeting - where the proposal was indeed approved - Lloyd Mues, UI vice
president for finance and administration, explained pompously and vacuously,
"The absolute best thing we can do in a process like this, as with any of
them, is all of that negotiation and all of that communication is pretty
private." <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Gee, Mr. Mues,
we thought the UI was pretty public, actually. There are many pretty private
colleges around here, but not the UI.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">But what about
those serious security threats we have to pay $300,000 a year to stop?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Mues again:
"Every now and then, someone will decide they want to drive across the
Administration Building lawn in a four-wheel drive." He apparently was
perfectly serious.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So, will a
heavily armed vehicular deterrence team be roaming
campus?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">No, it turns
out this expenditure will pay for one to three unarmed security guards to roam
campus on foot around the clock. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It's no wonder
the university didn't want the press or taxpayers asking serious questions
about this proposal before it was approved. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">- <B>Lee
Rozen</B>, for the editorial board<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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