Howard

County Board of Education Resolution Regarding Allen Dyer

WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has repeatedly breached confidentiality provisions that he is obligated, either legally or ethically, to preserve as a member of the Board of Education, and WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has repeatedly acted unilaterally on matters affecting the operation of the Board and/or the school system, without the Boards consent or authorization and, often, in direct contravention of decisions made by the Board of Education of which he is a sworn member, and WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has acted in ways that undermine the functioning of the Board of Education, and WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has intentionally spurned less divisive, less contentious and less costly methods of resolving disputes in favor of litigation, and WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has used his position in ways designed to further his personal litigation against the Board of Education, and WHEREAS, Board Member Allen Dyer has threatened other Board members and school staff who have or who he believes have not responded or acceded to his demands or agreed with his position on a matter. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The Board of Education hereby expresses formally its displeasure and disapproval of those actions; The Board of Education hereby declares that Mr. Dyers actions have impaired the functioning of the Board of education as a body and has negatively impacted operation of the public school system; The Board of Education hereby publically censures Mr. Dyer for these actions; The Board of education hereby removes Mr. Dyer as chair of the and as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board; The Board hereby directs its counsel to prepare and its Chairman to execute a request to the Maryland State Board of Education to remove Mr. Dyer from his position as a member of the Board of Education for Howard County for misconduct in office.