The former school board member who represented the St. Louis public schools on the city's Tax Increment Financing Commission — and who recently opposed a high-profile tax incentive package for the developer of Midtown's City Foundry — has been removed from the commission.David L. Jackson Jr. says he was informed yesterday that the special administrative board of the school district had voted unanimously on Tuesday not to reappoint him.
Jackson says that Rick Sullivan, president of the special administrative board, told him that "the decision was made to change all members of the City Boards." But, he says, that decision made no sense: The other school board seat on the TIF Commission has been vacant for more than a year.
Jackson suggests instead that his opposition to the City Foundry tax deal was the catalyst for his dismissal.…