MB Trustee Is Censured
Manhattan Beach school board members on Wednesday night voted to censure one of their own, asking outspoken, polarizing first-termer Bill Eisen to step down.
The move punctuates a recent period of growing strife between Eisen and fellow trustees, whom he has publicly insulted and repeatedly accused — in meetings, in letters to local publications and elsewhere in the community — of collusion, conspiracy and violations of public-meeting law, the Brown Act.
A nearly four-page resolution detailing the myriad complaints about Eisen and highlighting his recent controversial actions stated that he is being censured for “conduct inimical to the interest of the [district], its community, staff and students.”
“His outbursts, disruptions of meetings and the false statements he continues to make at meetings, and his letters to editor are major distractions” to the board, President Amy Howorth said of Eisen after the meeting.
“The rest of us have the students’ interests at heart, we keep students our primary focus,” she added. “Mr. Eisen doesn’t seem to share that focus.”
Stating emphatically during public discussion that he has “no intention of resigning,” Eisen reiterated that point in a Thursday interview, calling the censure “just a charade to silence me.”
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