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Methuen School Committee authorizes legal challenge to mayor's IT-consolidation executive order
Summary
The School Committee voted to ask the courts to block Mayor's executive order directing consolidation of city and school information-technology functions, after the committee's counsel said the order likely exceeds the mayor's authority under state law.
The Methuen School Committee on June 9 voted to seek a court ruling that an executive order from the mayor directing consolidation of municipal and school information-technology functions is improper and to ask the court for a preliminary injunction to stop the order.
School committee legal counsel Michael McNulty told the committee that, after review, "the answer is plainly no. It is not legal." McNulty said the mayor's order conflicts with the statutory process in Chapter 71, section 37M, which the law says requires a majority vote of both the school committee and the city council before a municipality may…
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