TOP TEN questions to everyone

Another top 10 from a parent:

非常感谢这个BLOG的主人给大家一个畅所欲言的地方. 希望今后能保留这个BLOG, 能让西北中文学校的家长和老师们能有了一个交流信息, 献计献策的地方.”
I too really appreciate BLOG的主人给大家一个畅所欲言的地方. It has attracted a lot of readers and contributors who posted many constructive ideas, suggestions as well as valid questions and comments for the most part. As BLOG 主人 stated, “We know everyone is caring our children's future, caring our community and like to make this great Chinese school a better place.” IT seems to me that there are still plenty of valid concerns and questions raised by the parents and teachers in this blog that remained unanswered. Yes, we all want to put the saga behind and move on and build a better and brighter future for NWCS and its community it served. But to do so, we all need to fully aware of and understand what and why went wrong in the past. 增加监督和透明性. Based on my reading of comments posted in this blog so far, here is the list of top ten questions we will like to hear answer from the Board and the top ten action items the board should put on its agenda now. Some of them are direct quotes from earlier post comments by others;
TOP TEN questions, in no particular order:
1. What is the most important factor the board considered in making its new principal hiring decision?
2. What issue(s) the board has identified regarding the school payroll and other expenses based on the recent review and audit conducted by the board and outside auditor. And what action the board plan to take to address the issues. “学校的帐户不清（参考5月7日周琳转发的电子邮件）到底是怎么回事？ 我们所有家长和老师要求董事会给我们公开学校账务。
3. What are the PTA fund raising expenses consist of?
4. On what basis did past board handed out HUGH bonus to the principal ZL? “ZhouLin said board acknowledged her work and performance level and gave her bonuses for the first 3 semesters (1.5 years?). If so, what is board expected principal to do (the roles and responsibility), and how is the work of principal measured (balanced budget, reduce tuition, higher parents satisfaction, enrollment number, test passing rate, teacher/student ratio, etc.) What were the factors that board considered to give out bonuses to Zhou Lin?”
5. Did School strictly following not for profit related governing laws and regulations in terms of financial and tax reporting to the federal and state government? i.e. has the registration with the State of Washington been timely renewed yet? Payroll and information tax returns properly and timely filed and can face possible examination and inquiry by the watchdog agencies?
6. Why there are huge cash surplus sitting on the bank in the first place? “Why didn't these money spend on the education of our children? Just because we parents want our children learn Chinese and the culture, so we'd have to pay higher tuition such that they can save these money for God know what for?"
7. Has the past election of board members followed the School Bylaw and met the quantum requirement?
8. Did school admin and board follow the finance guidance to avoid conflict of interest and personal benefit, when dealing with outside venders and suppliers, did reimbursement policy properly followed? “I wonder whether we have some kind of internal control in place so that abuse of power would be prevented. for example, do we have dual signature in place for NWCS checks? or do we have a Finance Committee on the Board that will oversee the financial management of NWCS? do we have someone from the Board/Finance Committee review bank reconciliations?”
9. Why was the School directory consisting of complete list of admin member and teachers taken out of the NWCS webpage?
10. Who is the OWNER of NWCS?

To be continued