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City solicitor resigns from school board BOE members must vote on a replacement 10 to 30 days after Oct. 3 By SHELLEY TERRY - Staff Writer - sterry@starbeacon.comStar Beacon The Ashtabula Area City Schools Board of Education spends tens of thousands of dollars each year on legal assistance from several law firms.
Conneaut’s school board spends money on a private law firm, as well. “The current staff of the Ashtabula City Solicitor's office is insufficient to take on the legal problems of an entity with almost three times the employees and nearly twice the annual budget of the city itself,” Franklin said. “A dramatic expansion of staff would be needed, and I fear this would have to be at the expense of the city, not the school board. The Revised Code clearly says a law director may not demand compensation from a school board for such services.” The charter does not delegate such a duty on the city, and Franklin said he disagrees with the attorney general that silence somehow lends consent. “But, if the Board of Education has access to free legal services, how can it decline those services and continue to pay outside counsel?” he said. “Would it not be open to claims of fiscal irresponsibility?” In order to debate all this legal lingo as the city solicitor, Franklin would have to argue with the school board, and he said he can’t do that and remain on the board. “As solicitor I do not intend to provide legal services to the board until and unless a court of competent jurisdiction says I must,” he said. “However, I cannot in good conscience take that position and remain on the board ... I must remain in the office where I feel I can accomplish the most good for the people who voted for me in both elections.” 
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