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2025 REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ORDER. PER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54950A SEQUITUR AND EDUCATION CODE SECTION 35140 EXECUTOR AT THE DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL CENTER, 1301 EAST ORANGETHORPE AVENUE IN PLACENTIA AT 5:05 P.M. COMMENTS AT THIS TIME ARE
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LIMITED TO ITEMS IN THE CLOSED SESSION AGENDA ONLY. AND THEN WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING THE FOLLOWING MATTERS 3.1 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE.DISCIPLINE. DISMISSAL. SUSPENSION. RELEASE. LEAVE ASSIGNMENT. NON. REELECTION.
NON REAPPOINTMENT. RESIGNATION. REINSTATEMENT PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE 54957. 3.2 PERSONNEL MATTERS. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENTS. EMPLOYMENT PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE 54957. SUPERINTENDENT AND INTERIM ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 3.3 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR, UNREPRESENTED EMPLOYEE. LOCAL AGENCY NEGOTIATOR IS DEBBIE FRENCH FROM THE COSCO GROUP. 3.4 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE EMPLOYEE. LOCAL AGENCY NEGOTIATOR DOCTOR ALAN MUSOLINO, INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT. 3.5 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATIONS, A LABOR NEGOTIATORS. DOCTOR ALAN SERINO, ACTING SUPERINTENDENT JOAN VELASCO, INTERIM ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES. YOLANDA MENDOZA, ACTING ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES REGARDING CSEA, CSC, EXCUSE ME, APL, E AND PLUM3 POINT SIX CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. ANTICIPATED LITIGATION. SIGNIFICANT EXPOSURE TO LITIGATION PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 2 OR 3 OF SUBDIVISION D OF SECTION 54956.91 CASE GENERAL LIABILITY CLAIM 648854 AND 3.7 CLAIM GENERAL LIABILITY CLAIM 659929 AND WE HAVE ONE PERSON WISHING TO SPEAK, AND SPEAKERS WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES. YES. MRS. BRODOWSKI, PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM. WHAT A PLEASURE. I GET TO SPEAK SLOWLY THIS TIME BECAUSE I PLAN FOR TWO MINUTES, SO I MAY REPEAT IT. JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED SOMETHING. OKAY, I WANT TO READ A LETTER WRITTEN BY PYLUSD ATTORNEY, TODD ROBBINS, REGARDING ISAIAH GATES.
IT STATES THE ALLEGATION AGAINST DOCTOR GATES THAT HE TERMINATED BETH SCOTT IN RETALIATION FOR RAISING CONCERNS WITH HOW CTE GRANTS WERE SPENT. WAS NOT SUSTAINED.
I REPEAT, THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DOCTOR GATES WERE NOT SUSTAINED. IN OTHER WORDS, DOCTOR GATES WAS CLEARED. ACCORDING TO TODD ROBBINS. AND YET THE SAME LETTER AND PROBABLY THE INVESTIGATORS WRITE TODD AND YET THE SAME LETTER ALSO SAYS THERE'S NO INTEREST FROM THE BOARD MAJORITY IN BRINGING HIM BACK. SO I ASK, WHY NOT? WHY IS A MAN CLEARED OF THE ALLEGATIONS STILL BEING SIDELINED? LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR TAXPAYERS. DOCTOR GATES IS BEING PAID $255,000 A YEAR TO SIT ON LEAVE. ON TOP OF THAT, THE DISTRICT IS ALSO PAYING AN INTERIM TO DO THE VERY JOB HE WAS HIRED AND CONTRACTED TO DO.
THAT MEANS PUBLIC DOLLARS ARE FUNDING TWO PEOPLE FOR ONE POSITION. THAT IS WASTE. THAT IS FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT. AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE HUMAN COST. UNFORTUNATELY, DOCTOR GATES HAS ENDURED PROSTATE CANCER THROUGH ALL OF THIS, WHILE ALSO ENDURING THE CLOUD OF A FALSE ALLEGATION TO DENY HIM THE CHANCE OF TO RETURN DESPITE BEING CLEARED IS JUST WRONG. IT OPENS THE DISTRICT TO THE VERY REAL RISK OF A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT. THE FACTS ARE CLEAR THE INVESTIGATION CLEARED HIM. THE DISTRICT IS WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY, AND THE LONGER THIS CONTINUES, THE GREATER THE LEGAL AND MORAL FAILURE BECOMES.
THE SOLUTION IS EQUALLY CLEAR REINSTATE DOCTOR GATES TO HIS RIGHTFUL POSITION. STOP PAYING TWO PEOPLE FOR ONE JOB AND SHOW THIS COMMUNITY THAT PYLUSD VALUES FAIRNESS, FISCAL
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RESPONSIBILITY, AND INTEGRITY. TODD. LEANDRA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EYE CONTACT AND LISTENING.AND, CAREY, THANKS FOR GLANCING UP. BRING BACK DOCTOR GATES. THANK YOU, MISS BRODOWSKI. THAT COMPLETES OUR SPEAKERS, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. OKAY. WE WILL. 510.
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