February 26, 2008
Richmond City Council members said today they have no excuse for the missing pages in the public schools facility master plan other than that their dog ate them last night.
“We’re really sorry. I take full blame,” explained City Council President William J. Pantele, his eyes cast nervously on the ground. ”I was sitting there reading over the plan and got up to grab some water, and when I came back, Tobey had eaten all the even pages.”
The council is expected to vote tonight on the school facility master plan, which details the closing of old schools and the building of new ones, according to the site that first broke the story, SaveRichmond.com. However, only the odd-numbered pages in the report were on the council Web site.
With millions of taxpayer dollars at stake over the decisions, the Richmond School Board has its suspicions on the matter, saying the council members’ stories on where the pages went don’t add up.
“Reva [Trammell] said her furnace stopped working and she had to burn the paper to keep warm. Ellen [Robertson] told me her mom accidentally deleted them off her computer. And Marty [Jewell] blamed everything on how his locker wouldn’t open this morning and the pages were all in there, ” School Board member Carol A.O. Wolf told reporters. “There’s always some excuse, and I’ve heard them all before.”
Pantele later admitted that he was lying about his golden retriever eating the missing pages, adding that what really happened was space aliens landed in his backyard and took him up to their planet where they demanded he give up eating chocolate or the pages, and he was forced to choose the latter.
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