NATCHEZ — The president of the Natchez-Adams School District’s board of trustees said Tuesday he won’t step down even after the government body that appointed him to the board asked for his resignation.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to ask trustee Tim Blalock to resign from the school district’s board after a meeting with him and fellow board member Cynthia Smith.

The supervisors said they were concerned about employee turnover and morale in the school district following several years of changes in administration and teaching positions.

While Smith agreed with the supervisors several times during the Monday meeting, Blalock defended the district’s decisions, noting that test scores have improved since the changes were implemented. The vote to ask for Blalock’s resignation came after an at-times heated discussion.

Blalock said Tuesday he has no plans to resign, saying he is personally invested in the district.

“I am doing this for my children,” he said. “None of the supervisors have any children in the district.

“It is my kids who are on the line. I believe what I am doing is right, and I am certainly not doing it for my hundred dollars a month.”

The county board has not provided any evidence of the district doing anything wrong, Blalock said, and the morale issue is a natural result of change.

“Any time you make a change, morale drops,” he said. “It happened in Tupelo, it happened in DeSoto County, it happened in Jackson. It is usually a temporary drop, and once the changes are finalized morale comes back up.”

Some perceptions of turnover are also exaggerated, he said.

“They seem to think we are losing more people than we are,” Blalock said. “Statistically, we actually lose more people to retirement and resignation than we have lately.”

Supervisors President Darryl Grennell, who offered the motion to ask for Blalock’s resignation, said Tuesday the board might seek to find a way to remove Blalock without his cooperation.

Board attorney Scott Slover warned the supervisors Monday that because a school board member’s appointment is for a term and not an at-will position, an attempt to remove a member might face a legal challenge in circuit court.

“If we have to go through a process, we will go through a process if that is the prerogative of the rest of the board,” Grennell said Tuesday. “Our intent was to prevent that. We were hoping he would go ahead and resign.”

Blalock said past legal actions have shown that a county board of supervisors getting involved in the affairs of a school district have resulted in the school district losing its accreditation.

Blalock’s term ends in February 2016.