Embattled Ellicott school board member Stefanie Dickinson is expected to resign from the board at a special meeting today, officials said.
Dickinson, 37, already targeted in a recall election in the eastern El Paso County district, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of Internet luring of a child, a Class 4 felony, after a deputy found a series of text messages from her on a 14-year-old’s phone, offering to have sex with him, authorities said.
A special meeting is set for 6:45 p.m. today to receive and discuss Dickinson’s resignation, said board vice president Gary Lake. The recommended action is to accept the resignation.
Dickinson is accused of sending a series of text messages to a teen boy who had accompanied her family on a trip to Lake Meredith, near Ordway, in August, according to an El Paso County Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant.
According to the El Paso County clerk’s office, the recall election will move ahead as scheduled despite Dickinson’s resignation.
“We do not want the voters to be disenfranchised in selecting Ms. Dickinson’s replacement,” Clerk Wayne Williams said.
The ballot is a two-part question — one on the recall and the other to select a replacement. Carol McGraw, The Gazette
