001Okay, we'll call the uh special meeting Thursday, July 17th, 2025, the San Valley Union High School District Board of Education. Roll call, please. Terry, >> note all current members are present. Um Sher Noble is uh remotely um zooming in. >> Thank you, Terry. And we'll stand for the flag salute. Okay. So, now we can uh move on. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> A motion to approve the agenda and second. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Johnson, >> I. >> Miss Grace Velasquez. I >> Miss Sheab. I. >> Miss Noble. Hi. Agenda is approved. Uh now we can move on to public comment time period. >> You have anything Brian? Okay. [Music] >> And now we can move on to our action item of the day which is the reason
002we are here. Um, it's the vacancy on the board of trustees and possible action to pursue a provisional appointment or to call for a special election. Election code section 5091-5095. Um, I'm going to go ahead and read the uh background on this and we'll and then I'll read the agenda item as well so that everybody understands what we're talking about. Um there is a portion uh on the agenda option two that uh needs to be striked which um was a deadline to consolidate was a typo. Uh it it the the line reads the deadline to consolidate with the November 2nd 2021 election has passed. Of course that has that needs to be strike from the agenda. So the reason we're here is uh following Mr. Jose Wanabara's resignation, a vacancy has opened up on the
003board in trustee area 3. The board must now consider how to fill that vacancy. The process and timelines applicable to the filing of board of a board vacancy as set forth in education code sections 5090. What is that? It's sequence. And Sanz, that's the rest of it. and Sis Valley Union High School District Board bylaw 9223 are summarized below. The board must order an election or make a provisional appointment within 60 days. Pursuant to Education Code section 5091 subdivision A, the board shall either order an election or make a provisional appointment to fill the vacancy within 60 days of the vacancy. It is within the board's direction discretion to decide whether to order an election or make a provisional appointment. If the board fails to do either within the 60-day time period, the county superintendent
004is required to call an election. Option one, make a provisional appointment. If the board chooses to make a provisional appointment, the board will establish the protocols to fill the vacancy. The district's board bylaw 9223 lays out a broad framework for recruiting, screening, and selecting a provisional appointee. The district must advertise in the local media to solicit candidate applications or nominations. The board must interview candidates during a public meeting and the board must approve the provisional appointee by a majority vote. Board bylaw 9223. After the board has made a provisional appointment, the district must post notices of the vacancy and the provisional appointment in three public places in the district within 10 days of the provisional appointment. Ed code uh 5092. If voters in the district are dissatisfied with the provisional appointment, they have 30 days
005from the date of the appointment uh is made to file a petition to conduct a special election to fill the vacancy. ED ed code 5091 U sub C. Option number two, order an election. If the board chooses to order an election rather than make a provisional appointment, the election must be held on the next established election date that is not less than 130 days after the board orders the election. ED code 5091 subb. Therefore, if the board chooses to fill the position, if the board uh chooses to fill the position via an election, a standalone election will be necessary and the seat will remain vacant until that time. The Santa Barbara County Registar's Office has estimated that a special standalone election will cost the district 75 to $100,000. During this special meeting, the board will
006consider whether to initiate the provisional appointment process or order an election to fill the vacancy. If the board elects to make a provisional appointment, the application packet will be posted on the district website. Is there any discussion? Um, I just a question for clarification. Um, Sherry, I don't think you're muted, by the way. >> You think she's what? >> Muted. >> Sherry. Um, are can you um mute by by chance? There's some background noise. We may have to do it. I think it's going through the phone. >> Oh, you know what? I think we can mute you on this end, Sherry. We'll we'll take care of it. And then just let us know if let us know by signal if you want to uh chime in. Okay, we're good now. Thank you. So, just for
007clarification, Chris, um, so we have 60 days as of June 30th. Is that correct? 60 days. Oh, >> July. >> Oh, July 30th to um either to appoint someone or to have the interview process. >> Um, you have 60 days to appoint somebody. If you do not, it goes to an automatic election. The county will automatically say, "Here we go." Which means they put it out there. It's up there and anybody I mean then anybody in the trustee area can apply again. So it's another one, >> right? And then that will cost somewhere upwards of $100,000 to >> correct. Okay. Correct. >> Thank you. I just wanted to clarify. >> Did you have anything else? >> I do. And in past, uh, we've had this in the past, I'm assuming, um, where people have had
008to step down for reasons like this. And it's as abundant appointments in the past most likely, or I'm assuming because that's >> we've done it, we've done it several times in my tenure. We've done it twice. You can see that's why the date on there is it was a little bit hanky. So when we did this last time in the July August thing, we actually posted Jul um July 19th and then we accepted accepted them on August 17th. So we had the exact same time frame of getting some getting candidates in. So we're not short shorting anything or doing anything, but we have to do the 60-day. It is like deadline. Oops. I guess my question is is that so in the past it's been more prudent and fiscally um prudent to appoint go through
009the process of appointing and and putting it out there and going through the interview process rather than spending $100,000 on a special election and dragging this out for several months. >> Correct. >> Okay. I just want clarification. >> And they can only this appointment can only serve until the 2026 election. >> It is the four-year seat, but you only get until the next election. So it's till 2026 and then they the next person they can run for that seat but they have to you know step down for the person who is elected. >> That was my next question because I know that Jose Juan had run in the last election cycle and he actually had a seat for four years. So that's a good clarification. So if someone wanted to run they could still run
010in 2026. >> Correct. Okay. That's good. Okay. Thank you. There there was one other item that and and there's probably people that are uh wondering why Jose Juan has resigned and the main the only reason he resigned was he had to simply because he moved out of his trustee area. Just wanted to make that perfectly clear to everybody. Uh is there a motion to approve? Well, let's I'm going to uh being the board president, I guess I can make a motion, too. Um I'm going to motion to approve a provisional appointment. >> Is there a second? >> I second. >> Roll call, please. Terry. >> Mr. Johnson. >> I. >> Miss Grace Velasquez. >> I. >> Miss Sheep. >> I. >> We're going to unmute you now. Did you hear me? >> Yes, we did.
011Thank you. And And so now the >> That's okay. It seems quiet now. You're good. >> Yeah, we're we're good. Um, so the board has now uh chosen to uh do a provisional appointment within the 60-day time period and we will move forward with the uh with the uh flowchart that is part of the board packet the the agenda today and uh I think we're good and we can is there a motion to adjourn? Already >> already >> motion to adjourn. >> I'll second that. >> Terry, please. >> Mr. Johnson. >> Hi. >> Miss Grace Velasquez. >> Hi. >> Miss Sheab. >> I. >> Miss Noble. >> Hi. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank you. You guys, >> you can take that. Absolutely. Touch this water.