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Votes at a glance: settlement approved, minutes and consent items passed unanimously
Summary
The board approved an OAH settlement agreement, accepted minutes from Oct. 20, passed the consent agenda, certified a project completion for Cortada School, approved the annual holiday mixer and completed a first reading of 21 updated policies — all items recorded as unanimous votes at the meeting.
At its meeting, the El Monte City School District board recorded a series of routine and formal actions, all captured in the meeting transcript as approved by unanimous votes.
Key actions recorded: • Closed‑session action: The board announced it approved a settlement agreement in Office of Administrative Hearings case number 2025060778 following closed session under Government Code sections 54957.6 and 54956.9(a). (No public details of the settlement were given in open session.)
• Approval of minutes: The board moved to approve the meeting minutes from Oct. 20, 2025 (motion by Missus Mendez Garcia; second by Mister Peralta); the vote was recorded as unanimous "Aye."
• Consent agenda: The consent agenda was called, no items were pulled, and the board approved it unanimously.
• Annual employee holiday mixer: The board approved the proposed staff holiday mixer on Dec. 11 from 2–4 p.m. in the board room (motion by Missus Mendez Garcia; second by Mister Seagrest); vote recorded as unanimous.
• Cortada School project completion: The board certified completion and memorandum of commencement for the Cortada School early childhood modernization project and authorized release of retention payments to contractors; motion passed unanimously.
• Board policy updates: The board conducted a first reading of 21 updated board policies; motion for first reading was made and seconded and recorded with unanimous 'Aye' votes.
The transcript records motions, seconders and unanimous 'Aye' tallies but does not provide roll-call name-by-name recorded tallies beyond the vocal 'Aye' responses at the microphone.
