The new board majority thinks convicted felons, those that have abused their spouse or child and those that leaked information sould be board President. I’m not making this up.
Three Board members (Jessica Shewmaker, Camie Polous and George Fuller) changed board policy over the last month to automatically rotate the top positions of the board like President, Vice-President and Clerk. On the surface this seems a “fair” way to operate. In practice it hurts the district.
WCUSD recently had a Board President who refused to agendize items the Superintendent needed the board to vote one and micromanaged personnel decisions. It got so bad that the board had a Past president attend meeting to “babysit” him and to ensure that he wouldn’t continue to be abusive.
The Board Majority decided a criteria for clerk.
I moved that we add this to the policy
“This policy applies to all board members unless they have been convicted of a felony, have a restraining order against them in place, committed violence upon a spouse or child, leaked confidential closed session information, or have violated the Ralph M. Brown Act. ”
Obviously, I thought we should have a standard that excludes some from automatic ascension to Clerk and then President. By a 3-2 vote the Board Majority thinks otherwise.
