Ex-supe of EDC schools going to jail

By Kathryn Reed

Former El Dorado County Superintendent of Schools Jeremy Meyers has been sentenced to 110 days in jail.

Meyers was arrested on driving under the influence charges twice in five months in 2015. He had earlier pleaded no contest to the first offense and last week pleaded guilty to the second.

Jeremy Meyers

Sentencing on May 25 also included four years of formal probation and having to install an alcohol device in his vehicle.

“We have no comment,” Paul Zappettini told Lake Tahoe News. He has been the attorney representing Meyers through his troubles.

Both arrests came in the middle of work days, with his blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.

Instead of merely stepping away from the job last fall, he forced the board members’ hands by making them pay him $114,821.55 – the equivalent of his salary through June 30, 2016. The five elected board members agreed to also give him $10,930. This is what the value of his medical, dental and life insurance would be for that same time period.

Meyers held the board hostage is how some people described it. Because Meyers was elected and was not accused of committing a felony the board had little recourse.

Ed Manansala, deputy superintendent of educational services for the district since June 2013, was sworn in Jan. 5 as the superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education.