By:OC Independent Editorial
EDITOR’S NOTE: the article has been updated with a response from Dr. Stephen Glass, the OUSD Board president – the only Board member to respond to our questions.
Imagine you’re a school board member.
And imagine you’re sitting at the dais during a board meeting. A member of the public – a citizens and a taxpayer – comes to the podium during public comments and ask you or another Board member to pull from the consent calendar an amendment to pay an outside law firm $400,000 – on top of the $800,000 the district has paid them in less than a year.