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Center Jt Unified School District Board Meeting 9/23/2020

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YouTube / Center Jt Unified School District
Date
2020-09-24
Location
Sacramento County, CA
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3,043 words · about 17 min
Collected
2026-06-06

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001um mr hunt are you with us yet okay uh i'll do the flag salute eugene you want to lead us in the flex okay salute 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 thank you eugene um do we have a motion to adopt the agenda we have a motion by mr spock to adopt the agenda do we have a second we have a second by mrs anderson um since we have some who are present and some who are by phone we will do this by roll call mrs anderson aye mrs anderson aye mr spock hi this is pope i'm mr bruno hi mr bruno i'm mr hunt and the chair of outside

002so it's four to zero um that brings us to the items of the agenda item comments from the audience regarding items on the agenda so carol do we have any okay we don't have any i don't see any here um so with this item this is just technical difficulties all right i've turned it down but i don't know if that means they've lost the connection because all of them went red and no longer having anything like let's see if they can hear you can you guys still hear me we're just getting feedback from the phone a couple minute break while we fix our technical difficulties all right did you guys hear us it sounded like you got some something happened so lisa david steve jeremy can you hear i us hear you now okay lisa

003are you still there cool okay right now okay steve can you hear us here if i can hear you okay all right is jeremy on yet he's not on yet no he's not on yet okay can you see what he is actually okay excellent all right um so that brings us to the first business item which is 20 20 20 21 learning continuity and attendance plan do we have a motion on that emotion we have a motion by mrs pope do we have second second we have a second by mrs anderson um do you have any discussion on the item mr laird uh only that the i want to reappreciate uh the curriculum instruction office for leading this charge and making sure that we meet all the compliance we have submitted this to scoe for

004feedback prior to we did bring this to you last wednesday and it was minor changes were made we adjusted some at the very end but otherwise we were able to get the feedback and make the necessary adjustments to meet the conditions of the plan so we are happy with how it is and we're happy to take any questions if there that they are i'd say tammy javeli did all the heavy lifting she she gets good credit she did a great job when i was tommy do we have any board member comment steve i can't see you have any questions or anything uh no i do not okay do we have anything on the computer carol no all right so we have a motion a second and we are done with discussion um so i assume

005the motion is to accept this we will do it by roll call mrs anderson hi this is anderson vogue zion mrs pope aye mr pope votes i'm mr bruno aye mr bruno votes i all right so chair boat side that's four to zero that brings us to business item b resolution 10 20 20-21 resolution to initiate provisional appointment process to fill trustee position due to vacancy um and it says we'll need two subcommittee members decide on the timeline for pointing an individual to the vacant position do we have a motion on this item we have a motion by mrs anderson do we have a second second we have a second by mrs pope do we have any discussion on the item it does say we need to fill two subcommittee member slots right so the

006most important piece would be at first to please uh approve the the resolution that declares a vacancy then the two other components would be uh identifying two of you who'd like to be on the subcommittee to just meet with me once the candidate applications have been submitted to verify that they are eligible to come forward for the for the interview and the second part would be what option do you want to pursue as a board option one which would allow us to make the vacancy fill the vacancy in october at the october 21st meeting the other option two would allow us to get to the november meeting which i believe is november 18th which either one of those would fall in the mandatory timeline so it's really the will of the board both would fall

007within the conditions of the 60-day per appointment and in your backup we've scripted out what it would look like for each of those okay i would like to be one of those last times okay okay so yeah so um let's vote first we will do it by roll call so this the first part the first part of it is to declare it they can we're doing a process so mrs anderson hi this is anderson bowtie mrs pope aye ms pope votes i'm mr bruno hi spirino outside that supported nothing then you have to um fill the two subcommittee seats mrs anderson has expressed interest in one of them um anyone else on the board have interest if mr bruno is not interested i would like to be all right i don't know if you heard

008that mr bruno but uh mrs pope is saying if you would like to serve she she will defer to you if you do not want to be on the committee she would like to be on the committee um i will let her do that all right so the two committee members would be mrs anderson and mrs pope um and then are we also deciding the timeline are we letting the committee decide the title uh it would be the board would decide as a collective so option one or two would you like us to follow um okay so option one's october meeting option two is november meeting exactly correct all right do we have a motion for one of the options okay we have we have a decision or a motion for option two do we

009have a second i will second that all right we have a second by mr bruno um so is there any board input on that other than changing it to option one they know well i just i just i mean to me we know that i'm leaving so the question is do we want to go through an election and then have to replace two more after the election or do we want to i mean everyone can place one in october and then one in november because it just seems like to me that that either way it seems like there's going to be a november uh opening so do we want to leave both openings till november i'm i mean i won't be here so i guess i should say i don't care but i'm not sure

010that um you want to leave both of them to that meeting especially right after an election that was my concern having two vacancies um and filling them in november plus the election it would be kind of hard so you could potentially have four seats in november and actually correct and it's not like i won't care just because i'm not here it just won't be my problem but i just throw that out for food for thought thanks a lot um so are you sure that concern mr bruno do you do you want to discuss this at all i was thinking often too sounded good because um we have people who are passionate who are running to be elected and option two allows those who don't get elected to apply for the position okay that was my

011thinking too is okay then you know who has been elected true or you make that decision okay so um so one question i would ask because i know some stuff has gotten contentious already is that i guess it's not really a question just a statement that i would not want even though i have no plans on being here i would not want to see the november meeting get too cantankerous i mean that kind of the other piece right now i know uh trustee wilson you're putting your hat in that ring but at this point we're really deciding on the one when do we want that because if you and i'm going to make something up let's say you resign effective the 30th of october i i mean i don't know what your your game plan

012is that would then push that out we wouldn't it would be very close to get that one on the november i do think it would be awkward to have two spots being filled um in november i it just feels awkward to me just as a full disclosure i don't know why but it just we can make any of them happen it just feels awkward okay um all right so do we have mr hunt yet we do not okay so all right um do we have any uh public input carol all right so it sounds like it could go either way but it sounds like it's been discussed so nobody has any objection we'll um we'll call the motion so the motion right now is to push off the filling of this until the november meeting

013uh mrs anderson aye mr mrs anderson votes i uh mrs pope no this quote votes no uh mr bruno hi all right uh chair votes no so we will table that until mr hunt gets on the line um and i guess in the meantime since that's our last thing i know it's the only awkward thing is he since it is dealing with his vacancy even if he does get on the line he might have seen only because it's kind of like filling so um if so the resolution is approved really what we would do we're basing it off the meetings that we have scheduled okay um we could only advice i had given was always to get on regularly scheduled meetings um so i mean we if it falls to the floor that means i

014have no direction so then i i would just go ahead and try to figure out how to put it on for next meeting possibly as a further discussion i mean that's my understanding it was 2-2 it it there's no action correct um that that just means it hasn't been decided so i don't think that means the committee could decide it which i guess doesn't help with the committee's divided um i guess the uh the thing would be is i i guess where i would hope for is that if he's if his resignations is effective the 30th and her next regular meeting is not until october then you're in the same exact spot as you exactly so um so maybe that's just something we can discuss a little bit more i'm and then there's something that

015i i wanted to talk about but it's not on the agenda the thing now would be the uh the proper time mr later sure all right um so while we're doing that um sure people around the community are are aware of what happened the other evening and um they hit really close to home for me because because one of the kids that was in that car he was one of my oldest son's best friends he sat in my house and played my piano i know not many people have pianos anymore but one it was already pretty hard to accept but the thing that was um even harder to accept uh when we called my wife and and told her is that uh with all these kids turning 18 um one of the birthday parties was

016at my house and um all the kids they're like hey g's dad is pretty cool you know we'll ask him if if we'll buy him some beer and without going into every detail of the conversation obviously the answer was pretty much no for numerous reasons um but uh what what that did during during that conversation is you know i didn't i didn't tear him up over it or anything i just said for numerous reasons no it's not a good idea just enjoy the hamburgers enjoy the party but one of the discussions that that was a segway into another discussion where you know for for people who don't know me i was raised in a highway patrol family i'm named after a highway patrol officer i grew up with the highway patrol magazine and every month

017seeing the pictures of the things that happened so i'm i'm pretty much when it comes to kids and cars i i like to stress the importance to them so even though i was never a high school drinker we've always put it out to kids that like if you ever have any doubt give us a call anytime day or night and i think in what what what made it harder is the kid that was always at our house we had that conversation with him hey we don't ever want you doing this but but if you do you don't feel like you can call somebody else call us anytime day or night and i know that that horse has left the barn so to say but i think one of the things because it's something that i

018grew up around and seeing all the time is that i think we really need to let our kids know hey we would rather we're not going to bite your heads off if you call us for help for making a smarter decision right and so i mean i would just throw it out there for other parents if they haven't had that discussion with their kids or for kids like if you've got friends that are doing something you initiate the conversation with your parents hey if one of my friends ever went out and did something and was in a questionable situation would would you be willing to go out and pick up my friend would you be willing to go out and help my friend so um i only bring bring that up because it's bad enough

019that it happened but but knowing that we had that conversation and it still happened anyway and you know this is a kid that i expected him to come back to my house and play the piano some more i expected to see him more you know i think he was leaving for the marine corps in two months just a really great kid that everybody in my house knew you know and i guess the one one bone i have to pick is that sometimes young kids make decisions that aren't right but you know somebody posted that these two kids deserved to die you know and and i have to take issue with that i'm just glad jesus didn't think the same thing about what we deserve um but i i cannot more be in more disagreement that

020these two boys deserve to die because i knew one of them not as well as i would have liked to and i'll never get that chance now but but i know at least one of those kids was a really good kid that if you ever took the chance to know him you'd be like hey you know how many kids still play the piano today right and so anyway i just want to throw that out there because maybe we can have that discussion in a in a constructive way of let's not have this happen again um any luck on that so we are still no i don't there's still two four people online all right so okay so do we want to let this ride do we want to resolve any any further discussion on this

021i mean i'm not it's not a hill i'm wanting to die on since i don't assume you know that i'm going to be here anyway i'm just trying to look at the way they'll play out so any further comment or do we just just let it go the way that it's going if it stays the problem with a problem but the the reality would be is i would come back for direction at the next next meeting which would then default into the it would have to be the november meeting because unless we tried to meet beforehand to resolve it um you know before september 30th or so so if there's no resolution at this meeting no resolution at the next meeting it's going to follow the november meeting anyway because it has to be taken

022care of within 60 days is that correct right because what we're what we're looking for would be is if it has to go to the next meeting that would be the next meeting would be the one that we have timelines that we would have to start october 1st to get everything done before the october 21st meeting if not that timeline gets pushed back it's all within the 60 days but either we just needed to know when did you guys want to try and interview the candidates and then we had to back it up from there so we were able to get two options can we do a separate board meeting with this item when all board members would be present you would yes you would need to do it prior to mr hunt um i

023mean like next week yeah the 30th right friday the 30th is when his vacancy occurs so if we can arrange something with mr hunt and get that scheduled what what's gonna have to be done prior to the preview well if you want to resolve this without going to november we'd have to have a meeting before the 30th because by then you have a resignation that's taken away scott and i just get together and resolve it only i mean you you could the deadline has to be by october 1st we have to post that they can see if we're going to fill it and interview on the 21st of october the first is when we have to open the window up because we go the first through the ninth i believe it is are where we

024seek applications there's some hosting requirements in there too i mr wilson and mr bruno are agreeable to that the three of us could try to meet tomorrow and i could report back if you're okay giving that power to these two i mean i can i can hash them out in my office until they up time in there until they leave well i mean however you guys want again i just and i thought i don't know how mr bruno feels but the way that i feel is whatever is easiest i just i just know when matt friedman and i got elected to this board there was some animosity amongst some board members and i could completely foresee if you had two seats go to november depending on the way the election rolled out you would have

025some animosity with people like you did this or you did that so i don't care one way or another i would just like to see the courtesy that and and the way the board members serve each other that november doesn't become some sort of vendetta fight where you end up with two people who are appointed who are opposed to two people who are elected and then we're back where we were in 2004. that's correct that that's my right because i i do believe that this board has regardless of the people who've come and gone has served very well as a body and i think staff and everybody else but like when when matt and i got on the board because the board had been in the news so often we kind of made a pact

026with each other that our goal was to see how long we could go without the district of being um thank you for that you know and so um that's that's just what i you know if it's not an issue it's not an issue and whatever is easiest is is fine with me i just i would i would hate to see the november meeting seven that would be mr monday i i would hey how are you um i would just hate to see that become a faction battle so jeremy um let me catch you up a little bit um we are on business item b about the resolution to for the vacancy that will be there by october 1st so we already passed the resolution to say we're going to fill it and then nancy and

027delray are going to be the subcommittee members and then so the last thing to decide is on the timeline option one means we go to fill it in the october meeting option two is to fill it in the november meeting the vote right now is two to two um there's there's a there's one opinion that says hey you know what let's take care of it in in november and then the election is over and we can figure out what the boards make up of the board's gonna be um and then there's the other side is well will there be is that a good idea to be filling two seats after there's been an election or should we fill one of the seats in october so um hopefully i i summarize that fairly people think i

028can summarize that fairly yes is there a motion or is it just we're picking up what was the motion so so the motion was the motion in the second was to wait until november to fill the vacancy that will come open on october 1st and that motion at this point has failed to gather the necessary three votes because there's two votes four and two votes against would you like me to vote on that motion or do you want me to make a different motion uh you know either one if it's i mean you can either say vote on that motion or if you don't like that motion and want to do a substitute motion either one would be in order well i guess we should finish voting on this but right but if you voted

029no on this you could make a substitute motion or a new motion it wouldn't even be a substitute motion or if you voted yes then it would pass okay so i would vote no on that motion and make a motion to feel to see at the october meeting i'll second that motion all right so we have a motion by mr hunt to fill it at october we have a second by mrs pope um just in the interest of fairness any discussion on this from any of them hey sorry all right i'm not hearing carol do we have any public input on this item all right so the motion is to go with option one to fill the vacancy in october so um we have a motion a second discussion is over mrs anderson mrs anderson

030votes no mrs pope hi mrs pope votes yes uh mr bruno i will vote now mr bruno votes no mr hunt mr hunt votes i and the chair boat size so three two it is option one at the october meeting all right that brings us to future meeting dates um regular meeting will be wednesday october 21st at 6 p.m here at riles but in the multi-purpose room not in this room are there any suggested agenda items other than the one we just put on do you have any mr bruno no i do not you have any parting ones mr hunt all right okay so um that brings us to um the last item which is a tournament do we have a motion to adjourn we have a motion to adjourn by mrs anderson do we

031have a second we have a second by mrs pope only because we can't see everybody i'll do roll call mrs anderson on the journey mrs anderson votes i'm mrs pope aye ms pope bow time mr bruno mr bruno votes i'm mr hunt all right mr hunt vote side chair vote say we are adjourned at 6 29. thank you

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