I was watching the clock but the Executive Director wasn't

From John Curry, October 31, 2010

October 14, 2010 at the STRS board meeting during the "public speaks."

Board President, Tim Myers, advised that all participants would be allowed three minutes to speak and that, "Mr. Nehf will signal you when you have one minute remaining."

When Bill Leibensperger began his speech, the built in timer on the MP3 Windows Media Player was registering 8:40 which meant that Bill began at 8 minutes and 40 seconds into the public speaks portion of the board meeting. At the 11:50 mark (or 3 minutes and 10 seconds into Bill's presentation) I could hear Mr. Nehf reset his stopwatch (boy, that change to the MP3 format by STRS really enables the listener to hear faint sounds - thanks) without reminding Bill Leibensperger he reached the two minute mark that Tim advised would happen. In fact, Bill continued on and ended his speech at the 12:32 marker which means he spoke, uninterrupted, for three minutes and fifty-two seconds.

Tim, please not only say what you mean when you have a speaker timed but "mean what you say" about the time use/misuse or don't say it at all. Mike....you might want to get a silent stop watch or, for that matter, not even use one.

John Curry
An STRS stakeholder