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Dr. Pat Cooper seat in the school board office is pictured follpatagonia guide jacket hanger1owing his disciplinary hearing Thursday, November 6, 2014, at the Lafayette Parish Schoolpatagonia guide jacket hanger0 Board office in Lafayette, La.(Photo: Leslie Westbrook, The Advertiser)Pat Cooper is no longer the superintendent of the Lafayette Parish School System.The Lafayette Parish Schopatagonia better sweater damenol Board voted 7 2 Thursday night to terminate Cooper s contract, effective immediately. The board also found Cooper guilty of four of five charges resulting from a board ordered investigation of him. The vote patagonia clothing wholesalecame after nearly two full days about 10 total hours of testimony and about an hour of deliberations.Afterward, Cooper said he plans to take some time off to rest, but would likely appeal the board s decision. Lafayette is absolutely a wonderful place, he said.Before the vote, Cooper told the board that he would sue if he was fired.Priopatagonia outlet store onliner to the vote, special counsel Dennis Blunt told the board he thoughpatagonia guide jacket hanger2t that it should fire Cooper because he had become unworthy and ineffective in his role. Blunt had presented evpatagonia guide jacket hanger3idence related to the five charges against Cooper that he kept special assistant Thad Welch employed after the board removed funding for the position, he paid five principals for more days than china patagonia guide jacketothers, he directed district funds be used to pay his attorney and he received a negative evaluation from most of the board this past summer. For you to have been subjected to repeated efforts to get the same board action done would suggest to me this gentleman has not operated your system in an efficient fashion, Blunt said. To have displayed the total disregard for your directives, that is absolutely breach of contract. More: Highlights from Day 1 of the hearingMore: Highlights from Day 2 of the hearingDuring Thursday s testimony, accountant Tim Green of Monroe said he believed that any salary adjustments needed to be made within the district s approved salary scpatagonia everlong review toshibahedule. Blunt argued that Cooper placed five principals on 244 day schedules to increase their pay outside of the realm of the board approved schedule. Cooper and Roy argued that the superintendent worked within thepatagonia guide jacket hanger schedule and only pro rated the salaries. I m not aware that a superintendent can discard the salary schedule and start paying how he wantedpatagonia guide jacket 6x, Green said.Green also said he wouldn t be comfortable with a superintendent continuing to keep an employee on after their patagonia guide pants xmsalary had been eliminated from the budget. The board removed funpatagonia guide pants 80ding for Welch s position, but Cooper has used other district money to continue to pay and employ him.
