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Board chair cites statute after superintendent removes facilities-naming item; members debate naming
Summary
The board chair said the superintendent removed a facilities-naming proposal from the published agenda and declared 'just cause' to leave it off; the board attorney read the statute on post-publication agenda changes and members debated the naming and urged public participation.
The DeSoto County School Board on Jan. 13 publicly recorded that a facilities-naming proposal had been removed from the published agenda and discussed whether that removal complied with statutory requirements.
At the start of the meeting the chair said the superintendent had removed items from the agenda, including a facilities-naming proposal, and stated, "The removal of this item was not done by my request and is therefore inconsistent with Florida statute." The chair said he nevertheless found "just cause" to have the item remain off the agenda while noting the…
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