DO NOT USE VUSD PHONES, BALES IS DANGEROUS

I have just received a series of articles from the Pueblo Chieftain the local newspaper in Pueblo Colorado where Joyce Bales was superintendent before coming to VUSD.

For a time she had two school board members who opposed her and three in her favor. A recall campaign was conducted against those two. Enough signatures were obtained to run a recall election against one Bales opposing school board member. That member was recalled and replaced.

The replacement member decided he did not like Bales either. A campaign of whispers and innuendo was conducted against the replacement who was finishing out the term of the recalled member. He was shortly up for election in the regular school board elections. He was not re-elected. A new board member that supported Bales was voted in.

The other member of the school board that opposed Bales was also removed from the school board in a rather bizarre way having to do with residency.

In less than two years, Bales had five strong supporters of hers on a five member board.

Bales was ACTIVELY involved in removing the final board member who did not support her. Bales TAPED CONVERSATIONS between herself and her final target and used those taped conversations against the last school board member.

DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ON SCHOOL PHONES ABOUT POLITICS!! OR ABOUT BALES LEADERSHIP.

BALES HAS ACCESS TO ALL PHONE CONVERSATIONS ON VISTA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT PHONES!!!

Here is the article:

Published: Friday September 16, 2005
School board member: staffer sent to check claim of new residence
By JOHN NORTON THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

A day after a news story appeared listing what Christine Pacheco-Koveleski said was her new Pueblo residence, School District 60’s community relations director appeared on the apartment doorstep.

Greg Sinn acknowledged that he went to the apartment in a fourplex at 616 W. 10th St. Thursday morning. He said he had been sent by Superintendent Joyce Bales to hand-deliver a letter presented to the school board Tuesday night by local citizen Arnie Carlsen, calling for Pacheco-Koveleski to resign or for the board to declare her seat vacant.

Bales said she wanted to make sure Pacheco-Koveleski, who did not attend this week's meeting, had a copy of the letter. In the letter, Carlsen, who led an unsuccessful attempt to recall Pacheco-Koveleski last year, said that since she had sold her home at 2225 N. Greenwood St. and has a home in Spotsylvania, Va., where she also works for Rappahannock Legal Services, she no longer was a resident of the district.

Pacheco-Koveleski said that she had sent an e-mail to Geri Patrone, the board's secretary, asking to have the letter sent to her law office at 612 W. 10th St., not to the apartment.
Sinn said after knocking on apartment No. 1 and finding it wasn't hers, he went to apartment No. 2 and Pacheco-Koveleski's son answered the door.

Sinn said he recognized her son and asked if his mother lived there. "He said, 'No,’ ” Sinn said. "Then he said, ‘Did you want me to give her a message? She's not here right now.' ”

An angry Pacheco-Koveleski said in a phone interview later in the day that she was very upset by the incident.

"I find it very inappropriate," she said. "I actually became very concerned. I've been on the board for six years and I've never had any staff member show up at my house. I wanted to know what was so dire that he would show up at my personal home. I consider it to be very unprofessional."

Sinn said that was not the case.

"I've probably delivered stuff to her house five or six times at her former residence," he said.
Pacheco-Koveleski said her son told her Sinn was not holding any papers and did not offer to leave anything.

Sinn said he had the letter in his back pocket.

"He was being the investigator since the address was in the newspaper," she said.

Pacheco-Koveleski phoned both Sinn and Bales to complain. Sinn, who said he was in a district foundation meeting when she called, said he saved the voice mail message.

The message on his phone, which he said was from Pacheco-Koveleski, asked: "Since when do you show up at my house? I think I might have to talk about that at the next board meeting."
She also implied he was ignoring the call and said, "Get yourself some huevos, as we say in Spanish."

Bales also taped her conversation during which the voice she said was Pacheco- Koveleski's also complained about Sinn's visit.

During their conversation, Bales asked, "Are you in Pueblo right now?" to which the answer was, "That's none of your business."

Sinn said later in the day, Pacheco-Koveleski left a message with his assistant questioning why he'd come to her apartment and saying she would get a restraining order against him if she had to.
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