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Residents accuse Nelson County board of 'rot' ahead of school-board election
Summary
Several residents used the public-comment period to accuse the current board majority of corruption, alleging mismanagement of facility projects, excessive legal spending, and calling for replacement candidates in the Nov. 5 election.
At the Nelson County Board of Education meeting Oct. 15 at Bloomfield Elementary, multiple public commenters accused the governing majority of corruption and urged voters to replace board members in the Nov. 5 election.
Amy Durbin, speaking for a group called The Forgotten Ones, said the district is suffering from what she called "the rot of corruption," alleging that a facility project was overturned by the Kentucky Department of Education and that the board had hired "not 1, not 2, not…
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