A special executive session of the board
was called last Thursday for this
morning. The purpose, what to do with the
District five seat that stayed vacant
when Judge Jay Roll Fair upheld a state
law requiring a six month residency
in a single district.
Today, the media was asked to leave the
executive session and the haggling began
behind closed doors.
When they opened, Kathleen Gilliam
announced the resolution not to back
Lorenzo Brown's appeal.
That direction was given to
the attorney,
with the four
board members
deciding positively
on not appealing and the remaining
board members deciding
in the negative.
Gilliam said the decision was not a
formal vote, but based on a consensus
that judge fare's.
Ruling on residency is correct.
Later, trustee Robert Medrano said he and
two other trustees also called for
Brown to withdraw from the appointment.
But that was overruled.
The speed of the courts will now decide
how soon District five gets a
representative.
The board cannot act until then, Medrano
says. The whole thing shows that
disserved bylaws must be changed.
The bylaws are very
definitely in conflict with what the
state statute saying.
So the whole time is now nothing
but litigation, nothing but litigation.
So are you going to change the bylaws in
two to to conform with
with the state state rule?
It looks like we will be getting to that
very soon.
Emil Guillermo, Channel 5, Action
News, Dallas.