Greetings,
I pray everyone had a great weekend. I will be unable to attend the board meeting tonight (inperson) due to traveling to Cheyenne, Wyoming for work. However, pending no objections, I
will be able to attend electronically at our scheduled time. If not, I ask to be excused.
I appreciate my brief conversation with Superintendent Munn. However, in lieu of my absence
from the meeting tonight, after further thought of this endeavor with CSU Global Online, along
with comments, I prepared the following questions to be read and answers to be provided in the
meeting. I'm not sure how other board members feel about things. Therefore my concerns are
below:
1. The conflict of interest resides within APS as it is APS tax payers dollars that would be used
for this. Removing oneself from the conflict of interest means not abstaining from CSU votes but
rather removing yourself from decision making on behalf of APS and allowing the Board to
make the decision to pursue this or not.
Did you have any meetings with our outside bond counsel to investigate if this needed legislative
change to do this? If so, why is this in your purview as Aps superintendent ?
This was a conflict of interest from the beginning and you exercised poor judgement in wasting
district time and resources to change this legislation really for the benefit of csu and not APS.
2. This effort is not aligned with the 2020 plan as a central part of the district's mandate or needs.
3. This seems to shortchange APS students who are our good students engaged in concurrent
enrollment. They should be encouraged to go to brick and mortar institutions like other higher
socio-economic students would.
4. What evidenced based research was reviewed, other than the economic impact on nearby
community colleges, that justified your time and energy to direct the district's outside bond
counsel to explore changing legislation that would permit such a district endeavor? Where is the
hard evidence, done before and not after the fact, that highlighted the benefits to our students?
5. Why can't csu global raise its own funds and build a new headquarters? Why should Aps use
its bond proceeds for this rather than say build out the PLCC and consolidate departments,
especially HR, to the main administrative campus?
This doesn't pass the smell test of what the district should be spending funds on. To me it seems
the biggest beneficiary here is you, currying political favor with large csu donors and other csu
board members at the expense of APS and our own district and student needs.
Thank you,

S&F,

 Eric

Director

Board of Education
Aurora Public Schools