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Community voices concerns: alleged retaliation at AMR center, unsafe band room and security costs draw scrutiny
Summary
Multiple community members and union representatives pressed the Hacienda La Puente board to investigate alleged retaliation and staffing moves at the AMR Children's Center, urged repairs or relocation for an unsafe La Puente High School band room, and questioned a temporary $32,000-per-month security contract and fiscal transparency.
Community members, classified staff and union leaders used the board's public-comment period to press trustees for accountability on several operational issues, notably alleged retaliatory reassignments at AMR Children's Center, unsafe conditions in La Puente High School's band room and a costly temporary security contract.
Tilly Carlos, treasurer of CSEA chapter 115, described detailed incidents she said show retaliatory staffing moves and safety lapses at AMR Children's Center. "This move was based on fabrication... This move was self serving, retaliatory, discriminatory," she said, urging the board to investigate and reverse recent reassignments and to restore Spanish-speaking staff members who…
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