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Superintendent urges district consider full-time chief of legal services amid heavy workload for board attorney
Summary
Superintendent Doug Burns presented a job description and multi-year legal-fee accounting to support creating a district chief of legal services, saying the board attorney currently handles an expanded daily workload.
Superintendent Doug Burns told the board that the district has accumulated substantial day-to-day legal needs and that the current arrangement — relying primarily on contracted board counsel — now imposes a significant workload on the board attorney.
‘‘We created this job description for a chief of legal services,’’ Burns said, adding the district compiled legal-fee totals for the past two years to show the scale of services the board attorney has…
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