Regular Part 1 Meeting
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Meeting Resources
[4] Nancy Thomas: Roll call, please.
[7] SPEAKER_04: President Thomas. Here. Vice President Preciado. Member Crocker. Present. Member Rodriguez. Present. Member Nguyen.
[18] Nancy Thomas: Before we go into closed session, we have a request from a member of the community to speak. Mr. Dupe.
[28] Cary Knoop: Good evening. I looked at the last set of meetings in September 2017, and I counted, including today, seven evaluation meetings. I think that's rather high. I mean, I can imagine you, in the beginning of the year, you set goals, performance indicators, you know, you set it all up, and of course, that needs to be in the public. Goals for the district is something that the public should know about. And then you get the self-evaluation, you know, the superintendent's rights, his own evaluation. Individual board members write what they think. They get together. Maybe they get together for a second session, maybe for a third, a fourth. That's seven sessions. I looked at the contract, and the board was supposed to, I hope you guys already did it, because they're supposed to give it by February 1st. And, you know, that's just not right. Everybody deserves due process and I wouldn't appreciate it if I had to wait for months on my evaluation. I would want to know, let me, tell me what it is. The fact that these evaluations are in closed session is a privilege of the employee in question. They can waive that and then the board is required to put these deliberations in public and so it's something a superintendent or, you know, I mean, that's his prerogative, may want to use and say, you know, I just want to get this out of the way. If you guys can't figure it out or you need seven meetings, we'll do it in public. So anyway, that's the prerogative of the superintendent. So again, seven sessions, I think it just doesn't make sense to me. Thanks.
[145] Nancy Thomas: Thank you. Seeing no other folks that want to address this issue, We will retire to closed session.