CAMARILLO SCHOOL CHIEF GONE, STILL PAID OUSTED DISTRICT OFFICIAL CONSULTS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer CAMARILLO - After being allowed to resign as superintendent of the Pleasant Valley School District Pleasant Valley School District is a school district in the west end of Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Enrollment for the district has reached around seven thousand students. , Andre LaCouture is continuing to draw his $125,000-a-year salary, working on school issues out of his new home in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . LaCouture has been retained through June - when his contract as superintendent would have expired ex·pire v. ex·pired, ex·pir·ing, ex·pires v.intr. 1. To come to an end; terminate: My membership in the club has expired. 2. - to work on facility issues and special projects, officials said. He then will work as a consultant for 72 days over a three-year period during which time he will receive health insurance and other benefits. ``He is working out of his home,'' said Howard Hamilton, the former associate superintendent who succeeded LaCouture as schools chief. ``We're as close as a phone call and e-mail.'' From his new home in Scotts Valley, LaCouture will help with ongoing campus renovation projects, as well as construction of La Mariposa High School, which is expected to open in 2002, Hamilton said. ``He has an expertise in land-use issues, environmental issues, working with the state department (of education) and the state Allocation The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place. In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as Board,'' Hamilton said. ``He has a good grasp in these areas and has contacts in the state.'' LaCouture did not return phone calls. The deal with LaCouture was hammered ham·mered adj. 1. Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools: a bowl of hammered brass. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Adj. out in December, a month after the school board decided in executive session not to renew his contract. After a resident questioned whether the Nov. 16 session had violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. the state's open meeting law, the board rescinded its vote on Dec. 7 and LaCouture resigned instead. Sherry sherry [from Jérez], naturally dry fortified wine, pale amber to brown in tint. The term sherry originally referred to wines made from grapes grown in the region of Jérez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain; today it may refer to any of the Cole, a district administrator and spokeswoman for the district, said there had been several conflicts between the school board and LaCouture during his 2 1/2 years at the helm. ``There was a number of issues that were ongoing for a long period of time,'' she said. ``They had different kinds of management styles.'' There also was controversy over the timing of the vote on LaCouture's contract. The Nov. 16 executive session was held less than two weeks after the school board election. Although two incumbents were unseated, they were still on the board at the time the vote was taken. ``I felt it was unappropriate that the old board should decide who the new board was going to be working with,'' said Trustee Ron Speakman, who was the only board member to vote against the motion not to renew LaCouture's contract. ``(The incoming) board members had been very active and were qualified to make that decision,'' he said. ``It appeared very petty Petty girl airbrushed beauty, scantily clad in Esquire’s pages. [Am. Lit.: Misc.] See : Sex Symbols .'' |
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