From The Greeley Tribune:  Ultimatums, secret meetings and charges of Open Meeting Act violations brought the festering tension among the Greeley-Evans School District 6 board members and former Superintendent Ranelle Lang to a boil, resulting in Lang resigning at a cost to taxpayers of more than a quarter million dollars.

Emails among board members regarding Lang’s employment obtained by The Greeley Tribune through a Colorado Open Records Act request, as well as interviews with board members Doug Lidiak and Julie Richard, paint a picture of secrecy and exclusion by the rest of the board in the days leading up to Lang’s departure.

In emails to board President Roger DeWitt and other board members, Lidiak and Richard decried a lack of transparency in the process. They also suggested the other five board members violated state law by secretly agreeing to terminate Lang without public discussion or a public vote.

“…Through a series of phone calls the majority made a decision before we discussed options and ramifications as a board or even voted or properly vetted,” Lidiak said in a June 22 email to DeWitt, just two days before the board accepted Lang’s resignation. “And now the expectation is that we come in and just accept the resignation. I think this lacks transparency.”

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