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In the finale to a five and a half hour meeting of the board of supervisors on Monday, chairman E. P. Luke announced his resignation, effective June 30.
The Piedmont District representative’s announcement came at the close of a two hour executive session on “personnel, contracts and litigation.”
Luke said his resignation was for personal reasons —“partly for health and partly because it’s gotten to be too much of a hassle.” In addition, he said, his continued service on the board of supervisors and the planning commission interferes with the legal practice of his son and daughter-in-law, local attorneys Peter Luke and Sharon Geneback-Luke. He acknowledged that their representative of clients before either body of which he is a member doesn’t constitute a conflict of in
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