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Public commenter presses board for credit-card transparency and warns against removal procedures
Summary
A member of the public asked the Proviso 209 board for clearer credit-card billing detail and urged trustees to review statutory limits on removing elected members, warning such rules could be misused; board members responded by pointing to school-code removal authority residing with the Regional Office of Education/Intermediate Service Center.
During the public-comment period a resident raised two governance concerns: first, the speaker said board bills and payroll entries lacked attendee names for conference charges and asked for greater transparency on how public funds are listed and who attended; second, the speaker criticized provisions that could facilitate removing elected trustees, calling the approach a "slippery slope" and…
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