Community and patrons can meet Lafayette School
Corp.'s soon-to-be leader on Thursday.
Les Huddle was selected in January as the
successor to outgoing Superintendent Ed Eiler, who will retire this summer.…
Events in Jacksonville have kept Huddle
busy in recent weeks. The district championed a countywide one-cent sales tax
referendum that voters turned down March 20, leaving the district with an
expected $4.4 million deficit next year.
On March 21 the Jacksonville school board
voted to give Huddle a 3.8 percent raise -- equaling almost $6,000.
Jacksonville community members have voiced criticism of the move, and the
Jacksonville Journal-Courier newspaper has asked the attorney general's office
to formally investigate whether the school board violated the state's open
meetings law; the board did not include the raise on the meeting agenda
released to the public.
Board President Mindy Olson has said the
additional compensation had been built into this year's budget from the
beginning and credited the agenda to an unintentional oversight.
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