Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Attorney Kelso Resigns From School Board

An outspoken trustee for the school district in Acton and Agua Dulce has resigned.

Nancy Kelso’s resignation was accepted by trustees at their meeting last week. She had submitted a resignation letter Aug. 4, which said only, “I resign effective immediately.”

Earlier this year, Kelso, who often clashed with other trustees, had threatened to resign April 1 after two fellow board members signed a contract accepting a land donation from a developer without the consent of the full board.

Kelso, an attorney, was first elected to the five-member school board in 1985. She was reelected to a second term in 1989. And when voters in the two rural communities agreed last November to expand their district from kindergarten-eighth grade to kindergarten-12th grade, they also selected Kelso to serve on the unified district’s board. Her term expires in November, 1995.

The other trustees for the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District agreed last Thursday to make an appointment to fill Kelso’s seat. The board bylaws give them the choice of calling a special election or making an appointment within 60 days.