By Karen Schmidt | The Republic | azcentral.com
Gilbert Public Schools’ governing board cancelled Wednesday’s meeting during which the board was supposed to vote on joining seven other government agencies in approval of a tax break for Apple, which has planned to open a manufacturing firm in Mesa.
The board’s vote could potentially block Apple from opening the manufacturing firm if it refuses to to sign a letter of no objection to the tax break.
The school district on Tuesday had been slated to vote, but after an hour of increasingly-heated discussion among board members a majority voted to hold off on the vote until tonight.
According to an email from GPS board president Staci Burk, the meeting was cancelled after the district’s attorney advised the board that there might not have been the required 24-hour notice to publically post that a meeting was going to be held. No information about the meeting was posted online on the district website until Wednesday morning. No new meeting date has been set, but it’s anticipated that it will be held later this week or next.
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