001Good evening everyone. I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Mount Diablo Unified School District. Today is Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 and it's 5:00 p.m. We will go to the roll call vote. Is trustee um Enzwi participating by phone at this time? Do we need to dial her in? >> I'll dial her in close session. >> Okay. All right. Trustee and Zwee will be participating in close session from the Morrison Clark Historic in 1011 L Street Northwest Washington DC 2001. Uh and um the agenda has been posted at her location and individuals are welcome to attend the meeting at her location. Um Trusty Lawrence, are you here? >> I am. >> Trusty Mason >> here. >> Trusty McDougall >> here. >> And uh Trusty Mayo is here also. So, uh, the board members,
002uh, Lawrence, Mason, and McDougall, and Mayo are here. For the close session agenda, we have, uh, item 2.1, public comment. The public may address the board on items that are scheduled for the, uh, discussion during close session only. Speakers must submit a speaker card to the board secretary. The board president will call each speaker to the podium as appropriate. These presentations are limited to three minutes each or a total of 30 minutes for all speakers or the three minute time limit may be shortened. Speakers are not allowed to yield their time. And we have two cards. Uh the first is Kip Penovich. Okay. Um, I'm handing this out first and then I'll have my comment. I got half sheets this time, so not as much paper. um on the uh the theme of my comments
003here is about fiscal transparency and I think we there there's some progress that is is being made um after the um unodudited actual presentation uh I went home and watched the the recording of it so I could take notes. And when it comes to the fiscal transparency that we have um I have a a couple comments um related to that um and it was stated by uh Dr. Clark and the CBO that there was a particular um table that was shown that was the budget to actual summary and there was the comment made that it was important to share this information so everyone has it and it's important to show how we've done and so I went home and compared to the files that I've kept for this and I noticed that the budget that
004particular table was actually missing one piece of information and there was a big deal made about how the change to the the net increase decrease was nice and tight, not varying more than $10 million. U but the first interim budget was not included. And if you put the first interim budget in that slide, that's the number that's in yellow there. Um so we did have a decent fluctuation only in one of the budgets. Um, but that one was not included in the presentation and I think it should have. The truth is that slide is a good slide and I think you should ask for it every single year and if it's that important to show they didn't show that to you for the past four years of the unodudited actual presentation and that's what the
005magenta numbers are below it. Those would have been the numbers for the exact same slide for the prior four years. So, if this is something that will continue to be part of the presentation, I think that's a good thing because it was stated that the numbers are the numbers, but you should be given all of the numbers and given a complete report before you do the comparing. Um, because there you can actually start to look at why was there a big uh deficit in the first interim and then you could connect that to a large projection in the materials and supplies. Go ahead. >> Oh, okay. Uh, that that was, you know, that allows you to dive into that and see what is happening. So, I hope and as as we pro uh continue here
006that we'll continue to have complete transparency uh about the numbers that we're sharing. Um, sometimes they're good, sometimes they might not be what we want, but you know, they are what they are. >> Fine. So, which agenda item were you referencing this? >> This was had this had to do with a superintendent evaluation as far as fiscal transparency goes. >> All right. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Robert Peterson. >> Before you begin, let me just explain. Our equipment is old here, >> so it's not beeping and booping anymore, but it is counting. So, I will let you know. It does change. I think it just goes from green to red now, but trust me, we are we have a clock. >> No, thank you very much. I hope everyone's doing well. It's my first time
007doing this. I'm a little nervous. Uh, thank you very much. So, I'm going to talk about I think it's related to 3.1. I read something on KTVU this morning about uh there's some negotiation stuff going on, but um you know, I have two kids at uh um in the third and second grade in the district. And uh first off, I think everybody between the board and the teachers union are on the side of the students as they see it. And I understand trying to manage a district with 29,000 students is quite a feat. And so definitely uh aware of that. You know, and I've um read my Richard Hoff Center. I know the democratization of education is a tricky subject to say the least. I just wanted to make the point we lived in an
008age of increased anxiety. uh you know for multiple social reasons, everything from the um availability of information, the internet, smartphones, everything of that nature. Uh and the kids are growing up in this environment that you know we would have no clue of how to respond with when we were that age. Um uh my own our oldest kid included. Uh one great thing that we've had at uh at Walnut Acres, a school where uh uh our kids go are the use of counselors. So, Miss Finn, I I just know her name is Miss unfortunately, but she's been a great resource for our students there. And so, as part of these uh negotiations, I would just please ask uh employee to uh consider increased number of counselors. I I I'm I'm not sure where that lies in
009the list of priorities, but she's been a great help to our uh to our girl and uh um just given the um how should I say the the nature of growing up in this day and age uh trying to make well-rounded human beings. I think that's a very important thing to have and that's really all I have to say. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much for joining us. >> Of course. >> Go Jaguars. >> Lucky man. Okay. So, um in close session, item 3.1, the the uh board will discuss negotiations uh and um may provide directions to its representative employees. Um government code section 54957.6 3.2 is discipline, dismissal, release or reassignment of public employees. Government code section 54957B1. 3.3 is conference with uh legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation. 3.4 is liability claims
010government code 54956.95. It's John Rubio versus the Mount Diablo Unified School District. 3.5 is public employee performance evaluation government code 54957. 3.6 is stipulated placement agreement for student 04-26. 3.7 is stipulated expulsion agreement for student 05-26. We will adjourn to close session and see you at 6 pm. Thank you.