4/30/19 School Board Meeting - Part 4 - Agostini resigns as Secretary

At the April 30, 2019, Richland 2 School Board meeting Trustee Lindsay Agostini resigned at Board Secretary, a position to which she was elected by the board on June 26, 2018.

Her reasons are very important.

Watch the YouTube video of this meeting and slide the time-counter forward to (2:25:13) and listen carefully to Mrs. Agostini's statement. I mean, LISTEN CAREFULLY.

Her statement will not require you to listen to what is not said. She says it all.

On April 26, 2019 Mrs. Agostini emailed the Supt. Davis and Mrs. McKie that she was resigning as Board Secretary upon the advice of her personal legal counsel.

Mrs. Agostini explained how she arrived at her decision. In late January 2019 she was asked to sign a District document pertaining to the bond (the new half-Billion dollar bond). Because of questions in her mind about the wording of the document, Mrs. Agostini asked Supt. Davis if someone else could sign, and she understood his response as being he thought that would be fine.

[No, it's not fine. The Secretary is the only person who can sign as Secretary, unless the Secretary is not available or incapacitated, and if there is Ass't. Secretary, which there is not. The superintendent was wrong to give her "legal advice" that someone else could sign.]

By late February Supt. Davis told her it would have to be the Secretary's signature.  [He should have known that at the first conversation.]

After her personal attorney reviewed the documents, she signed the document as Secretary.

On April  23 she received an email that a second set of documents needed her signature. Mrs. Agostini wanted to know in advance of signing whether she would have any personal or civil liability. Her personal attorney and she discussed the "Certificate of Incumbency" and the "Signature and No Litigation Certificate". Mrs. Agostini "did not have complete confidence" in the documents, because an extra paragraph acknowledging issues around Mrs. McKie's position on the board, fines owed to the Ethics Commission and serving as Chair was included.

Mrs. Agostini said her principles would not allow her to sign those documents, and so she resigned as Board Secretary. She will continue as a Trusteee of the School Board.