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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Ind. Gov't. - "Randolph Central board's closed meeting violated law, according to open records office"
Joy Leiker reports today in the Muncie Star-Press:
RIDGEVILLE -- When the Randolph Central School Board asked member Dana Cox to resign Tuesday, behind closed doors, it did so illegally, according to the Indiana Public Access Counselor's office.Boards can meet in executive session to discuss some personnel issues, but that right doesn't extend to elected officials like Cox. Instead, such privacy is intended for employees and students.
Tuesday night, an hour before the regular board meeting, the five members of the Randolph Central board met inside Deerfield Elementary School. (The executive session had been scheduled to address issues related to resignations and appointments of other personnel, but those issues were resolved before Tuesday's meeting.) The board opted not to cancel the executive session, and instead use it to address Cox.
Cox said he was given two options -- either to resign, and sign a resignation letter that had been prepared for him, or know that the board planned to ask for his resignation publicly at the forthcoming meeting, and also censure him.
On Aug. 2 Cox was arrested in downtown Muncie for soliciting a prostitute.
Tuesday night he didn't resign, and the other board members voted 4-0 for a motion that both sought his resignation and also censured him for his "alleged misconduct and the undue attention that it has brought to Randolph Central."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 14, 2008 09:24 AM
Posted to Indiana Government