Back in March, the LAV talked to John Briscoe, a trustee from the Ocean View School District, who is leading the cause to get the neighboring Westminster School District to display “In God We Trust” in the board’s chambers. WSD passed on the idea in March, and Briscoe promised he’d be back.
He came back Friday.
Not surprisingly, Briscoe reintroduced the idea to the board at last Friday’s meeting, and the school board once again decided to take no action (the district’s site is severely lacking in archive materials, so I can’t include a link to any decisions or minutes).
Briscoe vowed to “resubmit for consideration again next month, and every month thereafter until they approve it,” this time with a larger flyering campaign to local churches and school sites in English, Vietnamese and Spanish. Check out March’s flyer here - I’m hoping May’s also has Briscoe’s smilin’ face, it makes it much more friendly and personal.
And in a surprising twist on things, Dr. Alan Rasmussen, Superintendent of Briscoe’s home district of Ocean View, is requesting the trustees of that district discuss the placement of the national (”In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum”), state (Eureka!) and city (The City of Expanding Horizons” and “Surf City, USA”) mottoes at their April 15th meeting. The board’s agenda is available here, (page 62 has what you’re looking for), and Annie Burris has the Register’s story here. Briscoe assures me he had nothing to do with this. I hope they’ve got a big wall picked out - that’s a lot of mottoes.
