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The San Ramon Valley school board is set to host a series of presentations Tuesday evening, with topics including the district’s budget, prescription drug awareness and AP Honor Roll success.
Kicking off the public reports will be another update regarding the San Ramon Valley Unified School District’s budget situation heading into next school year and beyond.
Then, the board will hear a presentation on the latest programs and activities at San Ramon’s Montevideo Elementary School.
Board members will recognize SRVUSD’s recent accomplishment of becoming the only school district in the world to achieve placement on the College Board’s AP District Honor Roll every year since the program’s inception in 2011.
SRVUSD staff next will present a proclamation designating March as Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month.
And closing things out, the board is expected to hear comments from San Ramon Valley Education Association president Ann Katzburg, whose union negotiators recently declared an impasse for ongoing contract talks with the district. All union presidents are given the chance to speak to the board during each regular meeting.
The board’s open-session meeting is scheduled to start 7 p.m. Tuesday inside the boardrooms at district headquarters, 699 Old Orchard Drive in Danville.
In other business
* The board will host another discussion on the planned conversion of SRVUSD trustee elections to district-based, instead of at-large. SRVUSD officials are weighing options for trustee district boundary maps.
* Board members will review the latest annual report of the Parcel Tax Oversight Committee, which is the local watchdog for district spending of the voter-approved $144 parcel tax. The committee found spending of the nearly $6.8 million generated in 2017-18 was in line with programs and services identified in the ballot measure.
* The board will consider approving bargaining topics proposed by each side for the district’s labor negotiations with one of its employee unions, the California School Employees Association local chapter.
* Board members will also discuss a funding plan for the low performing student block grant as well as vote on regional representatives to serve on the California School Boards Association Delegate Assembly
* The board is set to meet in closed session for 2-1/2 hours before the open meeting, beginning at 4:30 p.m.
The closed-session agenda includes conferences with legal counsel on one case of existing litigation and the district-election petition, consideration of a student records challenge, discussing labor negotiations with all three employee unions, and conducting annual performance evaluations for Superintendent Rick Schmitt and members of his executive cabinet.
The board continues to violate transparency laws. You can not make up case numbers you must sight the facts which both sides are aware of. Below is a quote from the Palo Alto version of this paper.
“That is exactly what happened in this case. The original agenda posting for Tuesday’s closed session incorrectly cited the case to be discussed by using a meaningless internal school district reference number. The law requires that the agenda state “the title of or otherwise specifically identify the litigation to be discussed,” and after seeing the agenda the Weekly requested the proper citation of the case, which was then updated with the federal court case number but still lacked the title of the case, “James Chadam et al vs Palo Alto Unified School District.” But with the case number the Weekly was then able to access the proposed settlement in the court file. “
Rick Schmitt performance review should include the following facts:
1) Rick was present at a board meeting in which a teacher warned the board that a student would drown because of large PE class size. The PE teacher who rescued the girl at Cal high said he was a Christian man and would not lie to the parents and would tell them their daughter died because it was a financial decision to increase PE class sizes. Rick is accountable for the financial decision he made that resulted in the death of a student.
2) Rick has yet to show how SRVUSD is accountability for the death of Ben Curry. If the district did nothing wrong how did Ben Curry die?
3) Rick has not created a pool policy to insure are kids are safe in the high school pools.
4) Rick has not fired Aaron Becker. Facts show Aaron was negligent in his duty. This was not a simple error. Aaron Becker created a dangerous situation for a student then walked away while the student was drowning. The negligence Aaron Becker exhibited by staring at his cell phone while supervising a pool filled with 57 boys and girls is repugnant. Aaron continues to damage the mental health of every student he has daily contact with. The question they ask is how can a teacher be responsible for the death of a classmate and not be fired. The district actions are in contrast with everything that we expect of our children.