SUSD board member Werner takes heat for calling employee “morbidly obese”

Hot mic moment caught at recent governing board meeting

Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board member Carine Werner is taking heat for an alleged hot mic mishap in which she appears to call a district employee “morbidly obese.”

The incident occurred at a board meeting earlier this month. The district’s director of Nutrition Services was giving a presentation to the board about a program in which the district and Scottsdale Community College cooperated to provide food for kids during the summer.

A woman’s voice can be heard in the recording of the meeting speaking over the presenter. Much of what the woman’s voice is saying is muffled but the word’s “This is what I have to listen to” and “she’s, like, morbidly obese” are clear.

Werner was not physically at the meeting, but a