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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Making my way through the insults to ask a sincere Q about why the IG complaints should delay the vote. Does the IG have authority to actually override a boundary decision? I went on the website and all I see are opinions written by the IG with loosey goosey recommendations. If the IGs do open an investigation, I for one will be interested in reading their recommendations, particularly for the next ES study. But they have no power to actually determine a proper boundary configuration, right?[/quote]

Fair question and you're right I believe.  The IG can't override a boundary decision. Nobody is claiming they can (I hope!).

The argument for delay isn't "the IG will reverse this." The argument is that a vote taken while active complaints are pending at both the IG and the state board of education creates a legitimacy problem that doesn't go away just because the vote passed. If the IG subsequently finds process violations or data irregularities, you've already implemented a permanent boundary change built on a flawed foundation. Unwinding that is exponentially harder and more expensive than pausing 30-60 days to get it right the first time.

The IG's value here isn't enforcement, but rather it's accountability and documentation. If the procurement concerns, the rushed timeline, the data methodology questions, and the multilingual outreach failures are found to be legitimate, that matters for every boundary study and capital decision that follows. The ES study you mentioned being interested in would benefit enormously from those findings being on record before the next round begins.

So no, the IG can't stop this vote. But "they can't stop it" and "there's no reason to pause" are two very different things. One is a legal observation. The other is a choice.[/quote]

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