Again With the Brown Act Violation:
School Board Can't Seem to Get It Right
New Superintendent's Baptism By Fire
Board Member Donn Merriam Violates the Brown Act routinely, but at least he's sanctimonious about it. |
In their usual vacation month, in what should have been a simple housekeeping event to cross 'T's and dot 'I's, the Brown Act challenged Emery School Board once again managed to bungle it.
Board Vice President Bailey Langner She's an attorney who doesn't know about the Brown Act. |
Member Donn Merriam has been on the Board for almost four years and has been present at three different Brown Act trainings and Board Vice President Bailey Langner, the Chair of the July 13th meeting, is an attorney and one would expect her to know about the Brown Act. Member Cruz Vargas, recently ousted from his position as Board President by his colleagues, read the school bylaws around meeting agenda items and claimed that the other Board members didn't understand them yet he was silent during this meeting. Mr Merriam, it should be noted, was quite sanctimonious in his denials of his previous violations of the Brown Act even in the face of the Superintendent acknowledging the Board's culpability, as was the case in a particularly egregious event reported on by the Tattler and the East Bay Times in 2015.
Ousted Board President Cruz Vargas Clueless. |
The July 13th meeting, the first Board meeting attended by Emery's new Superintendent Quiauna Scott represents a veritable baptism by fire for the new Schools Chief, a quick introduction to the lackadaisical view the Board has on transparency and legal mandates.
GOVERNMENT CODE 54953 (3) If the legislative body of a local agency elects to use teleconferencing, it shall post agendas at all teleconference locations and conduct teleconference meetings in a manner that protects the statutory and constitutional rights of the parties or the public appearing before the legislative body of a local agency. Each teleconference location shall be identified in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and each teleconference location shall be accessible to the public. During the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body shall participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as provided in subdivision (d which only applies only to Health Agencies). The agenda shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to address the legislative body directly pursuant to Section 54954.3 at each teleconference location.
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ReplyDeleteQuit picking on them. They can't help themselves.
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DeleteBailey and Donn are up for election this November. They should not even bother to run. If they do, the voters will not be kind.
ReplyDeleteCompletely unsurprising to see corruption in the Emeryville School District Alive and Kicking! Let's just be frank and sensible here. This school district has always been Shady. Emeryville was once deemed the most corrupt city in the United States and, judging from the school district itself, and their actions, it looks as though the city is gunning for that title again. It doesn't make sense to me, that all of a sudden there would be fairness in the process in order to allow an ethical person to occupy the superintendent's position. It stands to reason, since this district has been so corrupt for so long, that that is an integral position that the board members, and others higher up and power need filled by an ethically challenged person in order to keep doing the bullshit that it's been doing. Glad to see Cruz Vargas ousted as president. People are thinking. I cruise! By Cruise!
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