HUNTLEY – In a change of mind about holding two offices at once, a longtime School District 158 board member will resign before being sworn-in as a County Board representative Dec. 2.

D-158 President Mike Skala said he changed his mind after the Illinois Attorney General's Office informed him that legal precedent would forbid him from being a school board and County Board member at the same time.

Skala contacted the Attorney General on Tuesday after he received calls from constituents in the wake of a Sunday Northwest Herald report about his intentions to serve in both positions until the last lawsuit involving the Square Barn Road construction contractors goes to trial in early February.