Dear Community Harvest Board Member,
As an interested party and stakeholder of Community Harvest Charter School I am compelled to express my dismay, utter shock and sheer outrage over the continuing and escalating demise of the school. I, along with many others, have a plethora of questions and concerns that need to be addressed in order to assist us with developing solutions so that the necessary and appropriate actions may be taken to once again align the school with its intended mission and vision.
As the board you are the steward of the organization, therefore the debilitation and debauchery that has overrun Community Harvest Charter School rests squarely on your shoulders and it is from you that we seek answers.
Some of the questions and concerns include but are not limited to:
How has this board actively participated in the strategic planning to accomplish the mission and vision of the school?
How has the board clearly articulated the organization’s mission to the public and garnered support from the community?
How has this board ensured legal and ethical integrity of Community Harvest?
What has this board done to ensure the financial and academic success of the school?
What kinds of financial oversight has this board employed and are proper financial controls in place?
What has this board done to enhance Community Harvest’s public standing?
What is the frequency, what types and who is responsible for performance evaluations of the school’s administration?
What has been done to build a competent board?
What is the frequency, what type of evaluations are used and who is responsible for assessing and evaluating the performance of the board upon which you sit?
After the resignation of two board members, what was the process by which they were replaced? How and why were terminations of administration and other decisions conducted during this time without a full board in place?
What was the cause of resignation from not one, but two board members and from the founding member of the school administration?
What concern do you have for the organization you represent?
Based on results, it is painfully clear that the board has chosen to either ignore the mission and vision of the school or is completely ignorant of them. The school is no longer located in the community in which it was meant to serve; test scores have plummeted; the school is under review and can no longer boast of excellence; the school and the board itself has been and is out of compliance in a number of areas; and most importantly, the culture of the school and the organization as a whole has been obliterated and is now one where fear; dishonesty; disloyalty; mistrust; blatant disrespect and degradation run amuck.
Board meetings have been poorly publicized, therefore poorly attended not only by the public but by the board members themselves. Compliance issues; the board’s lack of response to questions, issues, and concerns thus far and the board’s actions as well as support an image of back room politics, subversion and the idea that the board has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for an incompetent, corrupt and unethical administration helmed by Viviana Trujillo and Jackie Gichohi who lack the necessary experience and credentials to effectively run a school, particularly a Community Harvest Charter School.
You have been asked to address some of these questions and concerns in prior board meetings, but have yet to be forthcoming with a redress of any sort.
This is an impassioned plea for support in regards to these and many more issues. I hope your sense of values and personal integrity will implore you to provide honest answers, true reflection and definitive actions that will seek to rectify these issues thereby garnering support from the CHCS community instead of continuing to ignore it.
Thank you for your time, your open heart and your open mind. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
In Earnest Sincerity,
Kelly Murray
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