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the pole vault state championship. She finished second because of a miss. Now who knows
about this, nobody, huh?
Voice: I do.
Mr. Laufgas: OK, but you did not say anything. OK, my next one is, now I spoke to the Board
for the past two years and I asked to change the name of the Horbelt School. Mrs. Mitchell did
her song and dance in Jewish and they think you didn’t do nothing. I am asking you, again, you
should change the name. Horbelt stole from the people, the Prosecutor’s office….
Mrs. Mitchell: Mr. Houser, I ask that Mr. Montenegro address this, Mr. Horbelt is not here to
defend himself.
Mr. Laufgas: What difference does it make if he is here or not?
Mr. Houser: What I would suggest, again, Mr. Laufgas is we do this through the Public
Representation Committee because a lot of these things are suggestions and a lot of the stuff,
what we need to do is meet with the Committee, make recommendations, the Committee can go
back and if there is any legal issues we can check them out and get back to you on. It is better if
we do it through the Committee because the Committee can meet any time in the middle of the
month or anytime we see fit, so we are better off if we do this through a Committee structure.
Mr. Laufgas: Let me ask you, what does that have to do with legal, changing the school? What
does that have to do with legal, the man stole from the people, he had his wife’s vehicles repaired
by the school, he had over 5,000 gallons of gas pumped into his private car. Prosecutor told the
Board not to prosecute him because the Chief of Detectives and him went to school together.
Mr. Houser: OK, there is no sense arguing over the issue, Mr. Laufgas, what we are going to do
is bring it to the Public Representation Committee, but we need to get a legal review on this
because you can talk to Tom Monahan previously and he suggested it was a legal issue for this
Board. I was part of that when he made the statement and that is why the Board could not move
forward on it. So, I again would suggest through the Committee that we get a legal opinion on
this before we can move forward on any suggestion like that.
Mr. Laufgas: Now is the Board going to make copies from your archives about the Prosecutor
investigation and the School Board Attorney, Mr. Pardes drafting up the charges against him?
Mr. Houser: That could be all done through the Committee who can submit it to the attorney.
Mr. Laufgas: But you want to talk about it?
Mr. Houser: The Committee will, yes.
Mr. Laufgas: Yes. now the other thing.
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