One week ago tonight, Seattle School Board president Steve Sundquist – who represents West Seattle on the board – was in the board’s chambers in SODO, leading his colleagues through a meeting that included firing Superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson and another top district official. Tonight, Sundquist was at The Hall at Fauntleroy during the 34th District Democrats‘ monthly meeting, reiterating his apology to taxpayers and recapping where the situation stood and what is likely to happen next. His appearance actually came during the meeting’s longest agenda item, a forum on the forthcoming Families and Education Levy, which isn’t even officially on the ballot yet, but is the focus of an intense campaign to keep it from being torpedoed by any anti-school-district sentiment spilling over from the SPS problems. We’ll detail the levy forum/campaigning in a separate story (with video of Denny International Middle School principal Jeff Clark helping make the pro-levy case). Before yielding the mike, Sundquist was asked about Mayor Mike McGinn‘s intentions regarding the district; Sundquist revealed he had met with the mayor twice in the past week, saying he believes the mayor just wants to “help” the district somehow.