April 29, 2010

Cincinnati NAACP
Media Release
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The Cincinnati NAACP must inform our membership that Cincinnati Public School Board Members Eve Bolton, Chris Nelms and Vanessa White have reneged on their promise extended to the Cincinnati NAACP Executive Committee and Membership.  These commitments were made at the Cincinnati NAACP March 2010 meetings.   The promises were a strategic plan, tracking system, and monitor for Cincinnati Public School inclusion.  The CPS Board was caught red handed inflating minority inclusion numbers to the community.  CPS is actively using pass-throughs and front companies and counting these transactions as minority inclusion.  CPS currently will not release the listing of minority companies that they publicly report did work on Cincinnati Public Schools.  "It looks like our only option is to consider another lawsuit against CPS," Christopher Smitherman, President of the Cincinnati NAACP says.  The Cincinnati NAACP will soon update the community on the pending lawsuit against CPS.
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The Cincinnati NAACP extended an olive branch to CPS by giving political room for the institution to do the right thing.  The Cincinnati NAACP is extending a red alert to all members.  The President of the Cincinnati NAACP needs all members and contractors to attend the May 10, 2010 School Board Meeting at 7:00 pm.  "I am tired of the corruption and game playing by CPS.  The Cincinnati NAACP on May 10, 2010 will again send a strong message to CPS that fraud and corruption is wrong.  Dr. Steve Reece told School Board Members at the Cincinnati NAACP General Membership Meeting to step up and do their job but they failed to take the advice" Smitherman says.