District Attorney Don Landry confirmed Wednesday that he will look into a complaint that the Lafayette Parish School Board violated its own policy when it voted to close Comeaux High School.
Former school board member and state representative Rickey Hardy said he hand-delivered a complaint to Landry on Wednesday morning.
Hardy alleges the School Board violated a policy that says a matter voted on by the board “shall not be brought up for reconsideration more than once during a calendar year except by a two-thirds vote of the School Board.”
In the complaint, Hardy says the board, per its policy, needed a two-thirds vote to put on the April agenda a possible vote to rescind the March vote.
But the April vote to rescind was only the first reconsideration, if it can be defined as a reconsideration.
If the April vote was a first reconsideration, then it appears that a two-thirds vote was not needed to put it on the agenda.
The June vote, though, would be the second reconsideration and would have required a two-thirds vote to place it on the agenda, according to board policy.
Hardy hand-delivered an amended complaint to Landry on Wednesday afternoon alleging that it was the June vote that was improper because the board did not have a two-thirds vote to place it on the agenda.
The board voted 5-4 in June to close the school. They would have needed six votes to place it on the agenda.