It seemed like an innocuous moment, the kind of bureaucratic wrangling that happens all the time in the Government Center.
At a March 2025 school board meeting, then-board member Melissa Easley questioned a proposed contract expansion that would give more money to an educational consulting firm called “SYDKIMYL.” She said she’d never heard of the firm, and argued there was a better way to spend the money.
Documents show she had submitted another question in writing prior to the meeting: The company appeared to be connected to the district’s then-Chief Executive in Residence — Raki McGregor. He’s now the consultantat the center of the current board leadership dispute…