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Votes at a glance: Bassett Unified board meeting, March 25, 2025
Summary
The board approved the community workforce agreement, two bylaws, a resolution honoring Cesar Chavez Day, a closed-session settlement and the consent calendar. Key votes and immediate next steps are listed below.
The Bassett Unified School Board took several formal actions at its March 25 meeting. Below are the motions, outcomes and immediate follow-up items recorded in the meeting minutes.
1) Community workforce agreement (CWA) - Action: Approved community workforce agreement between the district and the LA & Orange County Building & Construction Trades Council and signatory craft councils/unions. - Outcome: Approved (roll-call tally recorded as five ayes, zero no votes, zero abstentions). - Follow-up: Facilities/Construction staff to provide implementation and local-hire metrics to the board (planned by April 30, 2025).
2) Closed-session settlement: Parker v. Bassett Unified School District (case no. 22 p s c v o 2768) - Action: Approved settlement and compromise in the amount of $700,000 to resolve claims between the parties. - Outcome: Approved in closed session on a motion by a board member and second, recorded as a 5–0 vote. - Follow-up: Clerk recorded settlement and board directed staff to carry out the settlement terms.
3) Board bylaws - Action: Second reading and approval of revised Board Bylaw 09/2023 (retitled Board Meeting Rules and Procedures). - Outcome: Approved by roll call (motion carried).
- Action: Second reading and approval of new Board Bylaw 9323.5 (Public Participation and Conduct at Meetings). - Outcome: Approved by roll call (motion carried). - Clarification: Counsel and staff discussed that sign-up cards will be the district-provided public-speaker form and that the public-comment cutoff for submitted cards occurs when the presiding officer finishes reading the public-comment script; the board and counsel advised this procedure is consistent with the Brown Act and that sign-up cannot be required as a condition of attendance.
4) Resolution 039-25, Cesar Chavez Day (March 31) - Action: Resolution proclaiming March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day. - Outcome: Approved (motion carried).
5) Consent calendar - Action: Approval of routine items on the consent calendar as presented. - Outcome: Approved (motion carried).
Ending: The board set its next regular meeting for April 22, 2025, and directed staff to deliver requested follow-up reports on CWA implementation details and disaggregated mental-health data to the board before subsequent meetings.
