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By Steve Plunkett
    
    Arthur Koski’s job at the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District seems secure if district commissioners, his bosses, have any say.
    Or perhaps, because they have very little to say.
    Only one has responded to City Council member Robert Weinroth’s demand that they hire a full-time executive director instead of Koski, who also has a private law practice downtown.
    “I would like to go on the record,” Commissioner Susan Vogelgesang said at the April 4 meeting. “Mr. Koski, I owe you an apology for not speaking up at our last meeting when someone thought you should be ousted as the interim executive director. I think you do a fine job.”
    It wasn’t the first time the city has angled for Koski’s being replaced. City officials last year inserted a clause in a proposed agreement requiring the district to have a full-time executive director.
    Vogelgesang also said she thinks Koski, as a lawyer, would recuse himself from a legal case if there ever was a conflict.
    “I appreciate the work that you do,” she said.
    Weinroth, at the time Boca Raton’s deputy mayor, complained at the district’s March 14 meeting that Koski is representing two residents in a lawsuit against the city challenging its approval of the development of the Chabad of East Boca Raton on the barrier island portion of Palmetto Park Road.
    Koski has said he sees no conflict.