Court Opinion

ID: 9553871
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:36:36.56429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:32:29.153947
License: Public Domain

ERICKSON, Justice,
specially concurring in the result:
I concur in the result reached by the majority. In my view, the Fremont Board of Education had the authority to delegate to the superintendent of schools and the director of business services the power to terminate classified personnel. I also agree that the delegated authority was not invalidated by the lack of standards to guide the discretion of the superintendent or the director.
The superintendent was granted the power to terminate employees who serve at the will or the pleasure of their employer. Although the director of business services was prohibited from considering suspect criteria in his decision to terminate an employee, the board delegated authority and vested discretion to terminate an at-will employee in the superintendent and the director of business services. In my view, the court of appeals requirement of standards to guide what is by definition a discretionary decision is undesirable.
I am not courageous enough to predict, as the majority has, the problems that would come from the adoption of standards.
Accordingly, I specially concur in the result reached by the majority.