Bulletin: School board chair Brooks resigns

By MAUREEN DOLAN

Staff writer

The Coeur d'Alene School District Board of Trustees just accepted the resignation of board chair Edie Brooks.

During a special meeting held at 4 p.m. at the Midtown Center, Brooks told the board that she is resigning because she recently married and is moving to Genesee, in Latah County.

Brooks said she decided to resign after her then-fiance experienced a heart attack while they were hiking, his fourth episode in the past 18 months.

"We now know that we cannot take our health for granted and that every remaining day in our lives is very precious. We had hoped that we could have waited until the end of my term on the school board to get married," Brooks said, in a prepared statement she read to the board.

Brooks served on the Coeur d'Alene school board from 1996 to 2004, in the Zone 4 seat.

She was elected to the Zone 1 seat in 2006, and re-elected to that position in 2009.

Her resignation will become effective June 30. The district will now begin the process to appoint a trustee to take Brooks' place.