City schools CEO must be totally clueless

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises has again failed to meet requirements to ensure that Baltimore schools were fit to be occupied for the 2018-2019 school year (“Gov. Hogan blasts Baltimore schools CEO, says she broke commitments on air conditioning,” Sept. 5). Gov Larry Hogan rightfully blasted her incompetence by referencing the transcripts of past Board of Public Works meetings that “pointed to assurance by [Ms.] Santelises that the $6 million project to cool the seven schools would be finished in time for the 2017-2018 school year.”

Now we are into the 2018-2019 school year, and the schools are still being closed early due to lack of air conditioning. Ms. Santelises responded with a May memo that some schools’ timelines needed an adjustment. The timeline adjustment was obviously the result of poor planning and total lack of proper program management and looking at all requirements to complete the project. This seems to be an ongoing problem in Baltimore planning.

Where is Mayor Catherine Pugh in this current problem under her command? Very quiet. The city received the money and failed to solve the problem. Same old story.

Come on, Ms. Santelises, get it together, complete the job or get out of the way and let someone more competent take over.