Milton schools to release Garrow records by Friday
MILTON--The Milton School Board says it may not release records about Superintendent Garrow’s paid leave until late this week.
The Gazette submitted an open records request to the district Nov. 29 seeking details of a complaint and an investigation into Garrow’s conduct and details of an agreement by the board to pay Garrow through June 30 while he’s on an “administrative leave of absence.”
Until now, the board has been mum on Garrow bowing out of the district in mid-October after the district put him on leave to investigate the complaint about his conduct. Under law, the district had to give Garrow time to augment records The Gazette was requesting or make a rebuttal.
District officials earlier had said that Garrow had a deadline Tuesday to submit the materials.
Board President Rob Roy, who is acting as the district’s spokesperson on Garrow’s leave, said that the district has received materials from Garrow but release of records has been delayed, and possibly won’t happen until Friday.
Roy said he was just getting up to speed on the situation after having a medical procedure on Wednesday, and he was unable to comment in any detail.
Board member Betse Lubke said that she’s been involved in the district handling the records request. She said Garrow has turned in his materials but he has asked the district to include additional materials with the records it gives The Gazette.
“We received Mike’s augmentation and a request from him to release additional documentation,” Lubke said.
Lubke said it’s taking extra time the board is getting help from legal counsel to compile the documents that Garrow wants included.
“We just have to walk through everything and make sure everything is correct,” Lubke said. The board has not said whether the complaint, the investigation or its findings have anything to do with Garrow’s ongoing leave.
The board in November agreed to give Garrow full pay and benefits while he remains on leave through June 30.
Garrow’s current contract runs through June 2014, according to district records. It’s not clear if the terms of Garrow’s ongoing leave agreement have altered his current contract.
The Gazette has asked in two open records requests for the district to release details of his leave agreement.
Garrow has said he’s done nothing that would constitute dismissing him as superintendent. He has said that he has not had an affair or misappropriated funds, and he has not done anything “immoral.”
Garrow has said the time off has allowed him to reflect on his father’s death and “pursue his dreams.”
Dec 13, 2012 at 2:46 p.m.
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So, by asking the board to include additional items beyond what they were going to release, does this buy Garrow even more time because he will get to review the additional stuff, too? My personal opinion is that he is trying to push this off until everyone is on Christmas break and there will be a week and a half for the scuttlebutt to die down before school starts back on 1/2/13.
Dec 13, 2012 at 10:36 a.m.
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The truth is not that exciting. The board took it upon themselves to alert the rumor mill knowing it would do it's job to damage reputations. THAT'S THE POWER OF A SMALL TOWN!!
Dec 13, 2012 at 6:44 a.m.
Dec 13, 2012 at 5:46 a.m.
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Now no records til (Maybe) Friday? Stall, stall, stall
Dec 12, 2012 at 10:53 p.m.
Dec 12, 2012 at 10:30 p.m.
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Yes I agree that any company or government or school agency will allow time off for the death of a family member. But a year off and having to hire an intern to do Mr Garrow's job In my opinion stinks. Why because we now have to pay two people to do the same job to me I have never seen that before or some one being out on leave for an entire school year its unheard of ever happening in the Milton School district till now. I have gone to school and lived in Milton for a long time now sense about the late 90s and this is the worst situation Milton Schools have ever gone through. So as a taxpayer in Milton and with many of my friends having their kids going to Milton Schools I feel lousy this situation is going on. So this is what I expect the school board to do. One put all the cards on the table and let the people of Milton and the parents of the kids who go to Milton schools and see the evidence for themselves so they have a better understanding of what is going on they deserve to know that much. Two i also expect the school board to start thinking about the options for the 2013-2014 school year and how they want to proceed with this. You know I had many of my relatives go to school ion Milton along with my self and my brother and I always trusted that the school district to do what is best for the kids in the district. But after this I will have a hard time trusting the district because this has created rumors, speculation and that is why the school district will lose some of that trust after this is over. For me this is about the kids and trust in the Milton School district.
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