After losing the first round in 2nd District Court on Nov. 16, the Davis Board of Education on Tuesday discarded the recommendations of a committee set up to propose new boundaries for all seven high schools in Davis County once an eighth school opens next fall.

But the parents' attorney said larger issues of district transparency remain unresolved.

"We still don't have the ultimate result we wanted, which is a fair and open process," Randall Edwards, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said Friday.

The parents' lawsuit alleged the Davis district violated Utah's open meetings law by denying public access to meetings of a 39-member committee formed to come up with new boundaries.

They sought a temporary restraining order stopping the school board from acting on the committee's recommendations, and Judge Michael Allphin granted their request. Within days of the judge's ruling, the board voted to scrap the committee's findings and said it would hire a consultant to begin boundary-change studies anew. The board on Wednesday offered the consulting job to retired Davis Superintendent Darrell White.

That the process will begin anew gratified parents who objected to the committee's closed-door policy. But Edwards said the district's decision to hire a consultant to oversee the process is "a step in the wrong direction" because that option doesn't open the process to parents. He intends to meet with his clients in the next few days to determine whether they will proceed.