EX-BURBANK COACH ASKS FOR $125,000 : HAZELTON SAYS HOOVEN PROMISED HIM AN ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Former Burbank High football coach John Hazelton has asked the Burbank Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. to pay him $125,000, claiming he was promised an administrative post by a former school board member, but that the job never materialized. ``When he came to Burbank to be football coach part of the deal was the promise of an administrative position,'' said Dan Grigsby, Hazelton's lawyer. ``Based on that promise he left another job and turned down another job offer.'' Grigsby said Joe Hooven, the former president of the Burbank Board of Education, encouraged Hazelton to quit his job coaching the football team at Montclair Prep and to come to Burbank High as a coach and an administrator. ``He was promised an administrative position with the district,'' Grigsby said. ``It just never happened.'' Hooven could not be reached Friday. In a statement issued in February just before he quit the board, Hooven denied that he promised Hazelton an administrative post. ``I did say that I would try to help him obtain a P.E. (physical education) teacher's position,'' Hooven wrote. Last fall Hazelton quit his job as football coach after the administrative post never materialized, unable to live off the meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. stipend sti·pend n. A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance. [Middle English stipendie, from Old French, from Latin st that the coaching job paid, Grigsby said. So far Grigsby has not yet filed a claim or a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. against the district on behalf of Hazelton, but instead wrote the district a letter suggesting a way to settle the dispute. ``They want $125,000,'' summed up Richard Currier, a lawyer for the district. But Currier said Hazelton's assertion ``carries absolutely no weight.'' ``I'm convinced the district is not liable,'' Currier said. The district never made any promises to Mr. Hazelton other than about the position in which he served.'' Hazelton came into the spotlight Spotlight can refer to at least three types of lighting:
Hazelton told the committee that Hooven had urged him to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter in July between a 17-year-old Burbank High School Burbank High School may refer to:
Dumm was arrested in November and is awaiting trial on charges that she had sex with a minor. Hooven quit the school board in February after Hazelton's testimony became public. Hazelton himself has been charged with a misdemeanor misdemeanor, in law, a minor crime, in contrast to a felony. At common law a misdemeanor was a crime other than treason or a felony. Although it might be a grave offense, it did not affect the feudal bond or take away the offender's property. By the 19th cent. count of failing to report an incident of child abuse to district officials. He said he thought that he fulfilled ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. that requirement by reporting the incident to Hooven. |
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