The FOI Commission sets the hearing date on the vacancy of the Greenwich School Board

Greenwich – The State Commission for Freedom of Information has officially set an appointment for the hearing between First Selectman Fred Camillo and the city of Greenwich against the Board of Education and some of its members.

The hearing is planned for March 20 at 1 p.m. Commissioner Christopher P. Hankins is the hearing officer in the case.

In October, Camillo and the city of Greenwich submitted FOIA's complaint in the context of a continuing struggle for the right to name someone in a free complaint from the educational committee, and in question the legality of the emergency behavior of a Boe on October 21, and then special meeting on October 23. The first selection and the first city say that the first meeting was not properly announced.

A hearing is only the second step in the process after the complaint. An answer could not be available for months.

According to Legal vitans, the Commission must vote on the decision of the hearing officer within one year of the submitted complaint, said Russell Blair, director of education and communication for the Commission, in a statement on Greenwich Time.

Blair added that some cases require a second hearing to extend the schedule for a decision on the 12 -month limit.

The emergency assembly was set in the calendar on October 22nd on October 22nd to fill the BoE office, although the members of the school authority originally agreed to coordinate a new member at its meeting on October 23.

Together with the submission of a FOI complaint, Camillo and the city submitted a lawsuit in front of the Supreme Court in Stamford against the Boe, Karen Hirsh, Kathleen Stowe, Sophie Koven, Laura Kostin and Behetten, which also fill the vacancies left behind.

In the lawsuit, Camillo and the city demand that all official business transactions are held by the school authority after October 21, together with the installation of Cappiali as the school authority instead of Behetten.

The premise of the lawsuit depends on the FOIC decision with the city that the Boe emergency assembly does not correspond to the standard for an emergency, which is illegally seized during the meeting.

On January 8, the BoE and five defendants submitted an application to dismiss the lawsuit and said the reasons for their emergency assembly were “real”. Yamini Menon, judge of the Supreme Court of Stamford, held a hearing on February 24 to listen to arguments on both sides about the dismissal.

Menon said he would make a written decision about the application. No written decision was submitted on February 28th.