Oregon City schools chair refuses to reconsider illegal vote
May 07 2021
Martha Spiers, running May 18 reelection campaign, backs decision to retain coach convicted on ethics violations
Oregon City School Board Chair Martha Spiers this month officially denied a request to redo a vote in a public session to remedy the illegal closed-door vote that retained for the past two seasons an equestrian coach convicted in January of four violations of state ethics laws.
On April 30, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission unanimously voted to mandate that Oregon City High School Equestrian Coach Angie Wacker pay $2,000 in fines for the violations of state laws related to prohibited uses of her official position and her failure to file written statements of personal economic interest in setting equestrian program fees.