El Camino trustee’s continued stipend while absent questioned
Alannah Coupp on August 9, 2010 in College Online No Comments »
A trustee on the five-member board of directors at El Camino College near Torrance hasn’t attended a meeting in nearly a year, and yet has continued to receive his $400-a-month stipend in absentia.
The elderly Nathaniel Jackson, a former dean at the school and the board’s Inglewood representative, has been out ill since September 2009. Because he is sick, Jackson is not legally required to give up his seat. Nor does he appear to be violating any laws by accepting pay, although a state investigator is looking into the matter.
Still, the long absence has caught the eye of at least one board watcher, area political consultant Fred Huebscher.
