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Union leadership criticizes Carpinteria Unified on labor practices, legal spending and consent-agenda use
Summary
At the Sept. 24 Carpinteria Unified School District board meeting, elected employee leadership accused district officials of limiting transparency through consent-agenda practices, raised concerns about contractor use for nursing and maintenance, and urged the board to consider trustee remuneration; speakers also flagged substantial legal costs tied to labor disputes.
Elected employee leadership used public comment at the Carpinteria Unified School District board meeting on Sept. 24 to sharply criticize district governance and collective-bargaining practices, alleging repeated refusals to collaborate and rising legal expenses.
The union representative said the district “must not be loading the consent agenda for mass approval when individual items have not been brought before the public,” and called the practice a potential Brown Act violation that limits oversight. The speaker also named concerns about specific…
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