Hutchinson ? A day after the abrupt resignation of Kansas State Fair Manager Bill Ogg, a member of the fair board quit in protest over the way the matter was handled.

“Something needed to happen, but the degree to which we took action was too extreme,” board member Bob Barker said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, further details emerged confirming that the resignation had to do with lumber that Ogg acknowledged taking from the fairgrounds after a building was demolished.

The resignation came Tuesday as the board had a series of closed executive sessions at a meeting in Emporia. Board members would not say anything about the reason for the resignation, but the president, Mary Alice Lair, said circumstances forced it to take action.

Ogg left the building with Barker moments before the board emerged for a brief open session at which it voted to accept the resignation.

Reached at his home later Tuesday, Ogg told the Hutchinson News he had no immediate plans and no job prospects. When asked if he had taken lumber from the recently demolished horse barn at the fairgrounds, Ogg said the resignation “involves that, though it’s not entirely accurate.”

“All the materials that were allegedly missing were returned,” he said.

Barker said Wednesday that it was the incident involving the lumber that prompted the board to accept Ogg’s resignation.

Barker said that had he remained at the meeting, he would have voted against accepting the resignation. All other board members except John Rolfe of Wichita, who had to leave early, voted to accept the resignation.

Curtis Lindt, a rancher from Murdock who won the contract to demolish the horse barn, said he had underbid the project because he wanted to retrieve about 2,000 board-feet of sturdy lumber to use on his ranch.

“I bid $1,500, which was very cheap and was a good savings to the state,” Lindt said Wednesday. “It should have been $3,000 to $4,000 to demolish that building, but I wanted to get the building and salvage it.”

But Lindt said that before he could retrieve the lumber, someone carted it away. He then wrote what he called a “polite letter” to fair board member Brad Rayl of Hutchinson asking his help.

“I did not want to cause any trouble, and I asked that if I couldn’t get the wood, I wanted to be compensated $1,900 for it,” Lindt said.

Rayl confirmed Lindt’s account of what happened.