“I support that. People think that Sullivan wants to be the chair. I didn’t choose to be the chair. It’s set by the regs here in the City of Brockton.”
Brockton’s mayor agreed to step aside as chair of the city’s School Committee, a position the mayor has held for decades, to comply with recommendations from independent reports into the district’s devastating budget crisis.
At Wednesday’s School Committee meeting, members talked through more than a dozen recommendations from multiple reports, including a suggestion to replace the chair of the School Committee with someone other than the mayor, with reporting obligations to the mayor.
“I just want to go on the record and say I support that,” Sullivan interjected. “People think that Sullivan wants to be the chair. I didn’t choose to be the chair. It’s set by the regs here in the City of Brockton.”
Sullivan said the city’s mayor has been chair of the Brockton School Committee for decades. For him to step aside, City Council would have to make actions or amendments, which would have to be approved at the state level.