Public Hearing called on Closing Shelby Schools!!! 6:00 PM January 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at CCS Headquarters!! (FOOLS on the School Board make illegal changes!!) Report and personal opinion comments by Robert A. Williams

The great and wonderful Cleveland County School Board has officially called for and voted to hold a PUBLIC HEARING for 6:00 pm Tuesday January 25, 2022 at the CCS Central Offices located at 400 W. Marion Street, Shelby, NC. If you want to know the details about which schools in the Shelby ZONE, I suggest you call School Board Member Rodney Fitch at 704-974-2647 or 980-522-6239 for the Shelby school closing details. Note that those telephone numbers are public information, but Mr. Fitch has been known NOT to answer or return phone calls.

Also, my cursory search of the CCS Website Notice did not show any listing of this of this PUBLIC HEARING anywhere one would normally look to find such information. The CCS Calendar of events is blank for Jan 25, 2022. The School Board meeting schedule is blank for Jan 25, 2022. Plus, I could find no entries of any information related to this Public Hearing on Closing some Shelby Schools. However, if you attended the January 10, 2022 School Board meeting or watched the video, you would have seen the School Board schedule this PUBLIC HEARING.

Note that Public Hearings are required by North Carolina law to be advertised at least 10 days in advance. And today is January 16, 2022. Within that 10 Day notice requirement and there has been NO Announcement in accordance with North Carolina Law.

What you do have is an article today in the Shelby Star stating that the School Board will be having a Public MEETING at this time and date. Public Meetings and Public Hearings, legally, are miles apart. I went back to the CCS videos and verified EXACTLY what the School Board voted on. Danny Blanton made the motion to hold a PUBLIC HEARING and at every discussion it was a PUBLIC HEARING that was voted on. NOW, Robert “Luke” Queen and his sycophant Rodney Fitch have illegally changed the direction of a 9-0 vote by the School Board to hold a PUBLIC HEARING, to only a Public Meeting.

These kinds of changes by Luke and Rodney and maybe others may seem like small potatoes, but they are totally illegal and only FOOLS do such things.

Also, and I mean ALSO, since the School Board voted for a Public Hearing; this so-called a Public Meeting by the Shelby Star is of lesser legal standing and can be held and then the school board could officially vote to do what they please. Justified by holding a PUBLIC HEARING as they voted to do. A clear public deception at best or a planned scheme at the worst. In any case, it is clearly wrong and shows a definite disregard for the law b

My recommendation to you Shelby folks is to beware. Turn out and see for yourself what these fools on the school board are about to do. Call Rodney Fitch at the numbers previously noted above. Ask Rodney, a sworn officer of the law, why he does not arrest himself, Luke Queen, Ron Humphries and Joel Shores for impersonating real school board members.

Wouldn’t that be a hoot!!!

PS: All you Shelby folks with kids in school, If Rodney Fitch, Luke Queen, Ron Humphries and Joel Shores refuse to take your calls about what is going on with this Public Hearing, you should pull-up the January 10, 2022 School Board Meeting video, play it to one hour and 47 seconds and notice the message scrolled across the bottom of the screen that says To view the presentation slides, visit: rebrand.ly/facilities-assessment and see what that gets you.

These Rogue Republicans on the School Board sure like to hide their information deep. Hoping YOU, and especially ME, won’t take the time to look. But hey, there is snow on the ground and on the roads and I ain’t going nowhere else today.

Note: Shelby folks, of you cut and paste rebrand.ly/facilities-assessment into your browser, the expensive, yet worthless (per another analysis in another article) Facilities Assessment will pop up on your screen. It is a 21-page document and the Shelby Attendance Zone begins on page 19. Call Rodney Fitch if you have any questions. And, be sure to turn out to the Public Hearing on January 25, 2022 at 6:00 PM at the CCS Central Offices located at 400 West Marion Street in Shelby. Be prepared to get pissed-off; and arrested if you complain. You “domestic terrorist” as you will soon be called!!! Maybe Rodney Fitch can get you a bail bondsman. If YOU are a good-looking mother, I’m pretty sure Luke Queen will come to your “rescue.”