You may remember the election for the current year's officers (Chair, ViceChair, Secretary). At the June 29, 2021 board meeting I implored the trustees to elect only fully-qualified board members as officers.
Last year Teresa Holmes and Amelia McKie were not fully-qualified board members. As of that date neither had taken the oath-of-office legally. And they still haven't!!! Yet the Core Four elected Holmes as Chair and McKie as Secretary.
The entire June 29, 2021 board meeting can be viewed by clicking on the image above or using this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv3NNForW5k
My comments during public participation start at 16:30 on the timer ribbon.
When nominations opened, Trustee Manning immediately nominated Teresa Holmes as chair. That can be viewed at 1:22:25 on the timer. Manning was nominated and elected as Vice Chair. Then Caution-Parker nominated a second unqualified person, Amelia McKie, as Secretary, and The Core Four elected her!
So much for legality; right?
Why did Manning nominate Holmes? Why did the superintendent accept that nominatin? Why did the majority of the board elect Holmes? (That's an easy one to answer; but had Holmes recused herself from the vote, rather than voting for herself, the vote would have 3-3, and her nomination would have failed.) Why did Caution-Parker nominated a peson less than fully-qualified. Again, an easy question to answer.
I was going to trim out just a portion of the meeting but the District, in its infinite wisdom, decided to privatize the videos of the public meeting so that just a portion can no longer be trimmed out for easier viewing by you. Their explanation to me skirted the issue and rang 100% false.
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