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Trustees debate health-benefits audit and board conduct as tensions surface
Summary
Trustee Joan Malczewski summarized a health-benefits audit and a $1.4 million appropriation to cover a shortfall; other trustees pushed back, citing auditor findings that some payments were inconsistent with the collective bargaining caps and recommending legal review, producing a public exchange about disclosure and process.
At the March 26 Laguna Beach Unified School District board meeting trustees debated how the district handled rising employee health-care costs and an independent audit of related payments.
Trustee Joan Malczewski told the board the audit "confirmed there was no evidence of malfeasance" and described a December appropriation of $1.4 million to cover an interim shortfall so employees would not face immediate financial harm. She framed rising health-care costs (which she said accelerated after COVID) as a structural problem…
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