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Board reports closed‑session student discipline action; GTA and CSEA negotiation notices presented
Summary
The board reported a closed-session decision on a student discipline matter and heard public notices from the Gilroy Teachers Association and the district about successor bargaining for 2024–25; the board unanimously carried a motion to expel and then suspended the expulsion as recorded in closed session.
At the Oct. 17 meeting the Gilroy Unified board announced it had acted in closed session on a student discipline matter (case 2025 d07), moving to expel and then voting to suspend that expulsion; the motions carried unanimously, according to the board’s public report.
Earlier in the meeting the board opened public hearings on collective bargaining. Haley Sania, a fourth-grade teacher at Rod Kelly Elementary and lead negotiator for the Gilroy Teachers Association, presented GTA’s initial proposal and stated the union intends to open multiple articles for successor negotiations for the 2024–25 school year in compliance with the Educational Employment Relations Act. “GTA and management have built a strong working relationship…GTA looks forward to continued collaboration with management,” Sania said when presenting the union’s notice.
The district then presented its initial proposal to the California School Employees Association (CSEA) and later moved to approve the district’s proposal to begin formal negotiations. Several trustees confirmed that the procedural public-hearing requirement had been met and voted to approve moving negotiations forward.
Separately, the board ratified a contract with an outside vendor (360 Degree Customer Inc.) to provide one RSP teacher and three board-certified behavior analysts for the current school year, not to exceed $548,500; trustees discussed BCBA qualifications and market-driven costs before unanimously approving the contract.
The board’s public report of the closed-session discipline action included motions and unanimous roll-call votes; the transcript shows the board later took no further action on other closed-session items during that report.
