Montrose County RE-1J appears in the current repo as a district with direct 2026 engagement, RFP, and board-vote evidence for Miller Farmer Carlson Law representation.
June 2026 retained source notes add a separate, still-open superintendent case-file lane. Montrose Daily Press reporting preserved through metadata and user-provided pasted article text says the board was set to consider placing Superintendent Carrie Stephenson on paid suspension, that the matter related to an Olathe Elementary School investigation, and that Tedd Stephenson publicly alleged board president Neisha Balleck and board vice president Ted Valerio coordinated with Miller Farmer Carlson Law. A separate user-provided statement attributed to Carrie Stephenson preserves her denial of the allegation and a shortened grievance alleging board-governance violations, evaluation-process concerns, retaliation, and a request for independent investigation / mediation.
Those June 2026 materials make Montrose an active records-completion lead, not a completed finding about final action, counsel direction, board-law violation, retaliation, or cause.
2026-02-04 engagement letter and RFP response preserve formal pursuit of district-counsel work.2026-02-10 board vote to hire the firm failed and was tabled, then the 2026-03-10 board vote to hire the firm succeeded 5-2.2026 reporting and attributed party-statement notes support paid-suspension consideration, a superintendent response / grievance lane, and an attributed allegation about Balleck / Valerio communications with Miller Farmer Carlson Law.| Source node | Target node | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose board | Miller Farmer Carlson Law | district-counsel selection and engagement | legal services / governance capacity | direct evidence for 2026 counsel-selection sequence | Brad Miller primary-source cluster and Montrose-specific source cluster |
| Montrose board / board president | Superintendent Carrie Stephenson | special meeting / paid-suspension consideration | executive leadership pressure | reported relationship / attributed party statement | Montrose Daily Press source note and Stephenson statement source note |
| Tedd Stephenson allegation | Balleck / Valerio / Miller Farmer Carlson Law | alleged communications about the superintendent episode | possible legal-strategy channel | reported relationship / attributed allegation | Montrose Daily Press source note |
| Miller Farmer Carlson Law | paid-suspension advice or direction | unknown | unknown | unresolved | no retained underlying communications, invoices, counsel-scope records, or meeting records verify the firm's role in the episode |
Do not infer that Miller Farmer Carlson advised, caused, coordinated, supported, opposed, or directed the paid-suspension consideration without direct district records. Do not treat paid-suspension consideration as final termination, resignation, nonrenewal, separation, or discipline until final action records are retained.
wiki/summaries/profiles/brad-miller-identity-career-and-client-footprint-primary-source-cluster.md: preserves the engagement, RFP, and vote sequence.wiki/summaries/education/montrose-county-school-district-consider-hiring-miller-farmer-law-firm.md: carries the Montrose-specific source cluster.wiki/entities/brad-miller.md: places Montrose in the direct documentary client-footprint layer.raw/articles/montrose-superintendent-paid-suspension-2026-06-03/source-note.md: preserves the June 2026 reporting layer and access caveat.raw/board-materials/montrose-county-school-district/2026-06-02/superintendent-statement-grievance/source-note.md: preserves the attributed Stephenson statement / shortened grievance layer.qa/open_questions.md: records the remaining final-action, grievance, allegation, communications, invoice, and counsel-scope gaps.2026 special meeting: agenda, packet, minutes, video, vote count, final action, executive-session certificate/log, and paid-suspension terms if any?