BY FRANK DELANO
The Colonial Beach Town Council has called a special meeting tomorrow to discuss possible legal action against the town School Board over financial matters.
The meeting, which is slated to be closed to the public, was apparently prompted by a comment Superintendent Donna S. Power made at last week's School Board meeting.
Town Council members had been invited to the meeting to discuss school finances, but none of them showed up. At the meeting, Power said she "did not consider it Town Council's business how we were cleaning up our act."
Power's comment "has tipped me over the edge," Council member Karen Payne wrote in an e-mail to town officials that was obtained by The Free Lance-Star.
"To make a statement that it is 'not Council's business' how they handle their finances demonstrates a serious lack of understanding on the seriousness of the school audit issues," Payne wrote. "Is anyone else as angry as I am?"
The meeting notice cites a provision of the Virginia of Freedom of Information Act that permits closed sessions of public bodies to discuss "actual or probable litigation." The council session will begin at 7 p.m. at Town Center, following a series of council committee meetings that begins at 3 p.m.
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