"expeditious"

At last night's board of trustee's meeting, the board adopted a resolution directing the district's attorneys to work toward the "expeditious" resolution of would-be trustee Richard Fleming's case before District Judge Ken Molberg. Wouldn't have been more "expeditious" to allow Mr. Fleming to serve in the first place? What I do not understand is why Ms. Chaffin and the Board of Trustees felt so compelled to deny Mr. Fleming an opportunity to serve. He was certified by the district as candidate for the May 9, election. According to the election code he had to meet the residency requirements 62 days prior to the election which was March 9th. On March 9th, Mr. Fleming had been considered a resident of the district. In fact, the district had assessed and collected taxes on the location of Mr. Fleming residence for past 23 years. Mr. Fleming, as lived, and paid CFBISD taxes at this location for four years. After qualifying for the ballot and prior to the election, the Denton County Central Appraisal District received an "anonymous" tip, that lead to the discovery the map that that the school district, the Dallas County Central Appraisal District, and the Denton County Central Appraisal District used to determined Mr. Fleming's residency was in error by 17 feet. As a consequence, his residency was changed to Lewisville ISD. The subsequent discovery of the mapping error and change in Mr. Fleming's residency status, does not change the fact that on March 9, his official residency status was CFBISD and had been for a least 60 days as required by the state election code. Although, officials at the District now admit they were aware concerns regarding Mr. Fleming's residency prior to the election, including the change in residency by the Denton CCAP. The proper election authority did not challenge the eligibility of his candidacy prior to he election, as required by the state election code. It is clear that Mr. Fleming did win the election on May 9th. It is also clear that residency requirements must be met by the last day candidate s permitted to file for the ballot. There can be differing interpretations of the state election code, Ms Chaffin may disagree with my interpretation. Hopefully, we can all agree that in a democracy, a presiding officer should not over-turn an election without an absolutely compelling reason do to so. It is troubling that the District would continue spend precious resources on the Mr. Fleming matter. Mr. Shor is right, let the court decide, as expeditiously, as possible.