Resident faults board for repeated livestream failures and questions land‑sale rules and a proposed 6.5% tax increase

During the public-comment period, resident Alex Hayes criticized the district’s public access to meetings and raised financial concerns.

“I'm super annoyed that I have to be here right now, because your live link, once again, is not working,” Hayes said, adding that some residents had to come in person because the posted meeting link and call-in information did not work for them. He urged the district to post meeting numbers and phone numbers on Facebook and the board’s meeting page to improve remote access.

Hayes also asked about a new CTE/STEAM coach position and requested advance notice to parents about a ‘bring your kids to work day’ accommodation. He raised concern that the board had been incorrectly told it had to spend proceeds from a sale of district land or buildings in the same year as the sale. "I have confirmed this twice with mister Hastings," Hayes said, asserting that the district can retain most sale proceeds in the unit of budget for subsequent years and use only a portion immediately.

Hayes criticized the proposed 6.5% tax increase, saying he did not support it and described it as a potential "stopgap measure" that could force rushed capital work. He framed his remarks as a call for clearer fiscal planning and public transparency in board decision-making.

The presiding officer closed public comment after Hayes’s remarks; the transcript contains no formal response from the board to the specific claims about land‑sale accounting rules beyond Hayes’s own statement that he had consulted Hastings.