The Hamilton County Commission is meddling inappropriately in school board politics, pushing to get a board chairman elected tonight who supports their agenda, a Hamilton County Board of Education member says.
Board Vice Chairwoman Linda Mosley, who for months has been saying she would put her name in the hat for chairwoman, says commissioners Warren Mackey and Fred Skillern have been communicating with Hamilton County Board of Education members, trying to get them to vote the recently re-elected Everett Fairchild as chairman.
“I know for certain of two commissioners who are actively campaigning for school board chair,” she said.
Fairchild, along with board members Rhonda Thurman and David Testerman – the two board members who had Fairchild’s nomination added to tonight’s agenda – has been openly critical of Superintendent Jim Scales.
Mosley said she believes getting rid of Scales is the commissioners’ main agenda. She said board members have no business letting county commissioners make their decisions for them.