A portion of the agenda.
Within an hour after its regular meeting on April 17, the Board purportedly posted a meeting to meet again 72 hours later solely to have a "Personnel Discussion" in executive session. The Board did not hold an executive session during its April 17 meeting. I had previously raised in this post the possibility that the board had not properly posted its executive session because it did not state why it was meeting with its attorney. This new posting corrects that issue by mentioning it is for a personnel issue.
Again, the underlying issue is whether Supt. DeSpain is being or has been terminated. Interestingly enough, a City Council member raised this very issue in this audio I posted today, which also raised the possibility that the Board President Flores was stepping down.
The Board did not mention during its April 17 meeting that it would be meeting again in 72 hours. They also did not post the agenda online until after the 72 hours, and possibly until after the date of the meeting. (I am a hawk about watching their posting page, and I checked online before the time of this meeting and nothing was posted.) I am in the process of seeking an audio of the meeting through the Public Information Act, as their board policies require that they record and post meetings online. At least an executive administrative assistant and the Board President, Mr. Flores, also record their meetings.
Getting that audio will take weeks if they provide it at all (a prior years request for their audio was ignored), so if you have information about this meeting, please contact me. Chances are the public portion of this meeting was totally sanitized so that everything is in the dark. But, one can't tell because of the "ACTION ITEMS FROM CLOSED SESSION" language at agenda item 5. They could have run a Mack truck through that and taken any action they wanted, though it arguably would be a violation of the Open Meetings Act.
A guiding principle of Government in the Sun is that sunlight is the best disinfectant. There is only darkness and a chronic infection when a school board acts this way, especially when the board knows only one person from the public attends their meetings.
Below is the complete agenda. I will update this page when I have more information.
