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Councilman Spicer Starts Petition in Support of Deborah Collins for Superintendent

The newly elected city councilman says the school district should stop spending money on consultants and hire the interim superintendent.

Councilman Larry Spicer has started a campaign to support the hiring of Deborah Collins as the next Monrovia Unified School District superintendent.

Spicer created a petition on SignOn.org that calls on the school board to hire Collins, the interim superintendent, instead of spending money on consultants to find the next district head.

"Stop spending unnecessary money and hire Debbie Collins as the Superintendent of the Monrovia Unified School District," the petition statement reads.

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The campaign seeks 50 signatures and the petition will be delivered to the school board.

Collins was named the interim superintedent in April after her predecessor, Linda Wagner, left for a job in Anaheim. The school board voted to hire an executive search firm to help find potential replacements for Wagner.

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