A timeline for the Rainbow District School Board's plan to replace one of its trustees will be released Monday.
“We are currently working on a press release that's going to be handed out on Monday,” Rainbow board chair Doreen Dewar told Sudbury.com this week.
Dewar said she would not release details of the plan until that time.
The board voted Dec. 13 to appoint a candidate to replace outgoing trustee Tyler Campbell, rather than have a costly byelection.
Campbell, a manager with the City of Greater Sudbury, announced his resignation as trustee late last year after he faced allegations of a conflict of interest around a proposed soccer dome or artificial turf on school board property.
Trustees had 90 days to replace Campbell as of Jan. 9, the effective date of his resignation.
Meanwhile, one of the board's trustees, Larry Killens, and Dewar are squaring off over how Campbell's vacant seat should be filled.
Killens told Sudbury.com he's going to put forward a motion to rescind the motion surrounding the board's decision to replace Campbell through an appointment.
He said said the Ontario Public School Board Association's good governance manual says trustees can appoint the candidate who came in second in the general election in replacing members of the board.
It can also choose to invite interested persons to apply for the position, offer the appointment to a member of the community or hold a byelection.
Killens said he's concerned Dewar provided misleading information about options available in replacing Campbell. He said she suggested the idea of appointing the runner-up in the election isn't something that's done.
“I would like them to reconsider how they're going to choose Trustee Campbell's successor,” Killens said. “I'm not saying I want the runner-up. I just want the runner-up considered.”
Dewar, however, said she didn't provide any inaccurate information. “I never, ever said that you couldn't select the runner-up,” she said. “In fact, I said I knew of cases they'd done it in (municipal) councils.”
The candidate who came in second to Campbell in the 2014 election was Anita Gibson.
Dewar told Sudbury.com last month Gibson, who, along with husband Dylan, has been under a trespass order from the board since 2012, is welcome to apply for the position, along with anyone else in the community who's interested.
