Mount Diablo Unified board schedules closed-session discussion on negotiations, personnel and liability claims

The Mount Diablo Unified School District Board of Education convened Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. and announced it would adjourn to closed session to consider labor negotiations, personnel matters, anticipated litigation and two liability claims against the district.

At the start of the meeting the presiding official said, “We do not have any speaker cards for public comment under closed session,” and then reviewed the closed-session agenda items. The board listed item 3.1 as labor negotiations under California Government Code section 54957.6; item 3.2 as possible discipline, dismissal or reassignment of a public employee under Government Code section 54957(b)(1); and a conference with legal counsel on anticipated litigation (Government Code section 54956.9). The agenda also identified two liability-claim items under Government Code section 54956.95; the first listed claimant name was given as “CF” and the second as “CF2,” each naming Mount Diablo Unified School District as the agency against which the claim is made. Item 3.6 was listed as public employee performance evaluations under Government Code section 54957.

Trustee Nzewey, Trustee Lawrence, Trustee McDougall, Trustee Mason and Trustee Mayo were recorded as present during roll call. The presiding official closed the public portion of the meeting by saying, “We will adjourn to closed session and be back here at 6PM.” The transcript contains no record of discussion or public votes on these items in open session.

Because the items were put on the closed-session agenda, no public action or vote on the listed matters was recorded in the transcript. The board provided statutory citations on the agenda that authorize holding these discussions in closed session under the Ralph M. Brown Act. Any outcomes of the closed-session deliberations were not disclosed in the public transcript excerpt provided.