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5/24/22 Azusa Unified School District Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Azusa Unified School District
Date
2022-05-25
Location
Los Angeles County, CA
Material
Transcript
Extent
699 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001all right good evening and welcome to this specially scheduled board meeting of the azusa unified school district board of education on may 24th 2022 we are going to open our meeting with a flag salute so let's prepare to do that ready to begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all we will then move to 4.2 roll call and i'll begin with board member beau here board member cruz gonzalez here or member rodriguez pena president board member adianas here and i board member greer m also here we'll move to 4.3 approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve the agenda motion to approve 4.3 second move by board member adianas

002and seconded by board member rodriguez pena is there any discussion hearing none will take a roll call vote um sabrina beau yes uh the board member cruz gonzales yes foreign yes and board member audience yes i am also a yes so the motion passes five to zero moving on then to 5.0 uh report of action of closed session matters there is nothing to report however we will be moving back into closed session at the end of this meeting here here shortly moving on item 6.0 items from the floor public comment on agenda or non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda item when

003the public wishes to address the board of education on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those in zuma tidbits do we have any blue cards or anyone in attendance uh to speak at the podium no one sorry no one in attendance in person no one in person and lika do we have anyone online we do not have anyone on zoom okay then we will move to 7.0 general functions and specifically 7.1 approval of resolution 21 2237 adoption of administrative law judges decision certificated layoff is there a motion to approve i make a motion to approve 7.1 a second the move by

004board member rodriguez pena and second by board member beau is there any discussion yes one second yes um i would like to ask um well let me get to my notes here so are we are we like rescinding all but but one or or two good evening board of education i could take that question uh we have uh we are still in the process of finalizing how many of these uh notices that were served uh will be rescinded uh it may be um um we may end up rescinding eight of the uh ten but we will have that i will end up having that final determination in the next couple of days and weeks some of this is depending uh dependent on staffing decisions if we have additional resignations or retirement uh we will um

005we and we need to fill those positions we will fill those with the uh with the teachers that were affected by this um but by this layout okay and and so i mean was there a deadline or what was why why do we not know yet there is no deadline by statute to have the uh the layoffs rescinded the ed code is is allows a district to make these decisions uh as necessary however we need to make sure that any position that is open that a certificated employee who was affected by the layoffs can or has return rights to return to uh they have the first rights to those positions okay and so my question is you're saying you don't know how many um when what is time frame when when the how much longer

006do you need or how you know these teachers are waiting um if they're gonna you know if they're risks we're gonna be are gonna be rescinded so how long is it gonna take for us to be able to inform them of of this of the positions that we uh do and have a need for the those positions will be rescinded in the next couple days and how about those one or two positions that we still don't know about as i mentioned earlier those positions may be dependent on decisions that are affected by either teachers who decide to resign or retire thereby opening up a position that could be filled by a certificated employee who received the layoff noted okay and you're in clear communication with um all the teachers on this i am in communication

007with the teachers that were affected we have been communicating regularly throughout throughout this entire process great thank you for the clarification of course any other questions or comments then we'll move to a hand hand vote board member beau yes board member cruz gonzalez yes board member rodriguez pena yes board member adianas yes and i border mcgreer m also a yes and so the motion passes uh five yes to zero with that said uh we are not going to formally adjourn our meeting because we're going to move back into close session uh but we'll in our our broadcast we will return and adjourn in opens uh an open session on zoom at the end of our closed session meeting so we're going to move back into closed session so thank you everyone have a good evening

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