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Board members clash over legal spending and who may contact outside counsel
Summary
Trustees debated invoices to Thrun Law and whether the board president alone can direct outside counsel, prompting referrals to policy and finance committees to review legal-contact rules and local law-firm options.
A heated exchange at the Clintondale Community Schools board meeting focused on invoices to the district’s outside counsel and whether the board president has unilateral authority to contact that firm.
Finance Committee Chair Powers framed the issue as a governance question and said the committee is collecting records and questions about legal invoices and the process for contacting counsel. "This body is a sovereign unit of local government," Powers said as he described the committee’s review work and requested records and opinions.
Trustees raised specific concerns about fees…
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