HOLDEN – The SAD 63 board of directors appointed Holden School Principal David Anderson as interim superintendent on Monday while Superintendent Louise Regan is on administrative leave pending an investigation into her recent conduct.
Anderson was appointed during the board’s regular May meeting. He has served as principal of the elementary school since 1996 and will continue to do so while serving as superintendent.
“He knows the district and he has the certificates so it was the logical choice,” Linda Goodrich, school board chairwoman, said Thursday.
Problems within the district began in October with a dispute involving recorded minutes of previous SAD 63 meetings, which Regan reported to police had been removed improperly from the central office.
Regan threatened in November, through letters issued by her attorney, to sue five of the eight board members – Therese Anderson, Karen Clark, Linda Goodrich, Dion Seymour and Robert Kiah – who allowed Seymour to read at an Oct. 22 board meeting a letter of concern about Regan’s conduct concerning the tapes. In the legal notices, Regan said she would be asking for the statutory maximum of $400,000 in damages.
Since then, Regan also has filed two Maine Human Rights Commission complaints against SAD 63 claiming she was discriminated against and harassed for being a whistle-blower.
More recently, she filed documents in Superior Court calling the action taken at the March 24 meeting at which the investigation was authorized illegal in that she was not told the matter would be discussed and was not given an opportunity to attend the executive session in which her employment future with the district was discussed.
The SAD 63 board of directors decided in March to investigate Regan’s recent conduct and in April to place her on administrative leave pending the investigation. The board is investigating Regan’s possible termination.
Superior Court Justice William R. Anderson issued a temporary restraining order May 13 against SAD 63 and the five board members listed in the possible tort suit that basically states they are barred from investigating Regan.
The board’s attorney requested that the injunction be lifted in court on Wednesday. A decision by Anderson is pending.
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