From The Greeley Tribune: When the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education forced out Superintendent Ranelle Lang in a negotiated resignation this June, there was precious little discussion — at least in public — about the move, which cost taxpayers more than $250,000.

Behind the scenes, however, a group of five board members had been busy, working to bring about the change. In so doing, they violated Colorado’s Open Meeting Act, excluded from the decision-making process the public whose money they spent and kept two other members of the board in the dark.

Emails obtained by The Greeley Tribune through a Colorado Open Records Act request mention “numerous phone exchanges” between the five board members as they sought Lang’s dismissal.

In other emails to board President Roger DeWitt, and others, school board members Doug Lidiak and Julia Richard decried the lack of transparency and raised their own concerns that the five other members — DeWitt, John Haefeli, Rhonda Solis, Logan Richardson and Steve Hall — violated state law when they secretly agreed to terminate Lang without public discussion or a public vote.

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