From: Patrick, Sue (CPE)
To: Patrick, Sue (CPE)
Sent: Tue Apr 29 16:33:13 2008
Subject: CPE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Contact: Sue Patrick
Phone: 502-573-1555 ext. 308
Note to media—There will be no further comment today from President Cowgill.
STATEMENT OF BRAD COWGILL, PRESIDENT
KENTUCKY COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Today I announce my resignation as president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. I do this for one reason: in the foreseeable future, it would be necessary to devote excessive time and effort to unproductive activities, denying me the satisfaction of fruitful work.
I was drawn to this position by my desire to make a meaningful contribution in aligning the Commonwealth's always-limited resources to our statewide postsecondary education goals.
During my eight month tenure, there has arisen within the Council a consensus agenda that focuses on affordability, performance funding, accountability and the state's Double the Numbers educational attainment goal. The Council determined from my track record here that my experience and qualifications would be a good match with its long-term agenda.
I am not aware of any dissimilarity between the Council's postsecondary education agenda and that of Governor Beshear. Iin the last two weeks, he has shown a determined interest in the Council's presidency, contending that the organization must duplicate last year's search and must exclude me from it.
I have no desire to wage a battle with the Governor over this matter.
It would unduly harm Kentucky's postsecondary education reform efforts, and the positive momentum that has been achieved to this point.
It has been a great pleasure to have had the opportunity to work over the past eight months with a deeply committed staff and outstanding board members. The Council's work is nationally respected and should be a source of great pride to the Commonwealth.
The effective date of my resignation will be worked out with the Council to provide a seamless transition to new leadership.
Sue Patrick, APR
Director of Communications
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 320
Frankfort, KY 40601
502-573-1555, ext. 308
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Free Food, Kentucky Style
Let’s talk about stupid for a moment.
Who wants to stand out in the cold and rain for bad food? According to the Herald-Leader, probably about 12,000 people need a free meal.
But there is no such thing as a free lunch or in this case a free breakfast. And guess who gets to pay for it, --- you do.
Serving hours are from 7 to 11 a.m. with about 70 workers from the Kentucky Department of Parks serving more than 2,000 pounds of country ham, 15,000 biscuits and servings of cheese grits, 25,000 scrambled eggs, and 1,200 pounds of sausage.
Now I don’t know how much this little party costs, but looking around the Internet you can get some idea.
Workers from the Kentucky Department of Parks, let’s say they are paid at the mid-point of a grade 10. Food and Dietetic workers pay grades run from grade 6 to grade 16. The mid-point hourly rate for a grade 10 employee is $16.355.
So let’s assume a couple of hours to setup and a couple more to clean up and we have 70 people working 8 hours at $16.355 or $9,158.50 for staff.
Then there is the cost of the breakfast fixin’s:
Kentucky Country Ham, 2,000 pounds at $4.89 a pound would be $9,780.00.
Beaten Biscuits, 15,000 at $3.25 a dozen would be $4,062.50.
Cheese Grits (had to go to Hartford CT to find a link), bulk price 18 servings for $14.95 so let’s call the price of grits at $6,000.00. The price would be less than half the retail price in Hartford,
Eggs, 25,000 at $2.17 a dozen would be $4,520.83.
Sausage, 1,200 lbs at $6.25 per pound would be $7,492.50.
So now we have a projected cost of $41,014.33.
I didn’t figure in the time to setup the tents, or clean up the streets or anything else and we are knocking on the door of $50,000.00.
The only thing more stupid than standing in the rain for cold eggs is spending this amount of money, or any amount of money, for this little show.
I know this is chump change in the state government budget, buy surely to God when you are cutting social programs, don’t you think Steve Beshear could find something better to do with $50,000.00?
Who wants to stand out in the cold and rain for bad food? According to the Herald-Leader, probably about 12,000 people need a free meal.
But there is no such thing as a free lunch or in this case a free breakfast. And guess who gets to pay for it, --- you do.
Serving hours are from 7 to 11 a.m. with about 70 workers from the Kentucky Department of Parks serving more than 2,000 pounds of country ham, 15,000 biscuits and servings of cheese grits, 25,000 scrambled eggs, and 1,200 pounds of sausage.
Now I don’t know how much this little party costs, but looking around the Internet you can get some idea.
Workers from the Kentucky Department of Parks, let’s say they are paid at the mid-point of a grade 10. Food and Dietetic workers pay grades run from grade 6 to grade 16. The mid-point hourly rate for a grade 10 employee is $16.355.
So let’s assume a couple of hours to setup and a couple more to clean up and we have 70 people working 8 hours at $16.355 or $9,158.50 for staff.
Then there is the cost of the breakfast fixin’s:
Kentucky Country Ham, 2,000 pounds at $4.89 a pound would be $9,780.00.
Beaten Biscuits, 15,000 at $3.25 a dozen would be $4,062.50.
Cheese Grits (had to go to Hartford CT to find a link), bulk price 18 servings for $14.95 so let’s call the price of grits at $6,000.00. The price would be less than half the retail price in Hartford,
Eggs, 25,000 at $2.17 a dozen would be $4,520.83.
Sausage, 1,200 lbs at $6.25 per pound would be $7,492.50.
So now we have a projected cost of $41,014.33.
I didn’t figure in the time to setup the tents, or clean up the streets or anything else and we are knocking on the door of $50,000.00.
The only thing more stupid than standing in the rain for cold eggs is spending this amount of money, or any amount of money, for this little show.
I know this is chump change in the state government budget, buy surely to God when you are cutting social programs, don’t you think Steve Beshear could find something better to do with $50,000.00?
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