The Fillmore Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday said it approved a separation agreement with an employee identified in the meeting record as “employee number 849.” Board President Trustee Palacio reported the board accepted the employee’s irrevocable resignation effective July 21, 2025, and authorized a lump-sum settlement payment and mutual release of claims.

In a public report after closed session, Trustee Palacio said the board approved a settlement payment described in the record as $36,000.811 and that “both parties mutually release and waive claims known and unknown against the other.” He said the board authorized the superintendent to execute the agreement and carry out required notifications. The board’s determination was announced as a 4–0 vote with Trustees Balek, Rangel, Gredias and Palacio in favor; Trustee Morris was absent.

The board had described the closed-session topics in the agenda as anticipated litigation and personnel matters under specified government-code and education-code provisions. The public statement said the agreement resolved a dispute involving the employee and “the district’s payment towards the employee’s benefits, benefit premiums,” and made clear the settlement was “without any admission of wrongdoing by either party.”

The board did not state during the public report who moved or seconded the specific motion to approve the separation agreement, and the text of the settlement agreement itself was not added to the public record at the meeting. The board said it authorized the superintendent to execute the agreement and to carry out any further notices required by the terms of the settlement or law.

The board’s report of the closed session appeared after an earlier closed-session motion and roll call vote; the meeting agenda cited government code sections and education code section 35146 among the legal authorities for closed-session deliberations.