No Sound Problem at High School

Seekonk School Superintendent Rebecca Kidwell has disputed claims made about the sound equipment at the high school auditorium.

At the June 25 Select Board meeting, member Michael Healy, who serves as a liaison to local access station TV9, said before the May 12 town meeting, TV9 personnel had discovered “the whole audio system had been gutted out of the auditorium, so they had to come up with a different way for the audio system to work.”

“During town meeting, I think several times the moderator asked for the volume to be turned up so people could be heard through those microphones,” Healy noted. “We’ve got to make improvements.”

Kidwell told the Reporter there had been a “tremendous misunderstanding.”

“Our preliminary information suggests no system had been removed, rather, some hardware had been reprogrammed,” Kidwell explained.

“I have been in touch with TV9 and we will review specific concerns together.  Our team looks forward to working with them through the remainder of the summer as we prepare for the upcoming school year and public meetings that require collaborative media work between the schools, town and TV9 organization. I think there was a big misunderstanding between what TV9 expected to see in the closet for programmed hardware and what was actually available in working order, given the time away from working together.  I am confident we will get it worked out going forward.”