The Santa Cruz Valley Unified District governing board elected Ms. Nourdes Lourdes Vasquez as board president and Mr. Brad Beach as board clerk for calendar year 2025 and approved a series of administrative items at its Jan. 14 meeting in Rio Rico.

Board members nominated and voted on the officers during the organization portion of the meeting. Mr. Verdugo moved to elect Lourdes Vasquez to the presidency; the motion was seconded and the board voted in favor. A subsequent motion to elect Brad Beach as board clerk also carried.

The board approved the 2025 meeting calendar as presented, including a spring‑break adjustment in March and two meetings in October (the 7th and 28th) and a single meeting in May (May 6). The board also approved the official posting locations for meeting notices (boarddocs site, district website, district office and school sites, and an email list of subscribers) and voted to allow board members to attend meetings virtually by telephone or other technological means.

During the meeting the board approved a motion to convene an executive session "for consultation with its attorneys regarding county treasurer litigation and related matters," with the board's attorney authorized to participate in person, virtually or by telephone. The board then recessed into executive session.

The consent agenda, with one item pulled for separate consideration, was approved later in the meeting. Board members also discussed adding a policy review on assessments of liquidated damages for employees released from contract and asked staff to return the item for future consideration.

All motions on organizational items were adopted by voice vote. The board chair announced each motion’s passage by saying, "Ayes have it. Motion carries." No roll‑call tallies with member‑level votes were read into the record for those organizational motions.