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Gilroy Unified board appoints new principal and facilities manager, approves expulsions and $250,000 LEA-billing contract
Summary
At its March 6 meeting the Gilroy Unified Board of Education appointed Marita Salido as principal at South Valley Middle School and Alejandro Keron as facilities manager, approved several student expulsions and authorized a contract with Paradigm Healthcare Services (not to exceed $250,000) for LEA billing services.
The Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education on March 6 appointed Marita Salido as principal of South Valley Middle School and named Alejandro Keron as the district’s new facilities manager, the board announced after closed session.
Board members read biographies and congratulated both appointees. The board’s announcer and the presiding officer praised Salido’s years with the district, noting she joined Gilroy Unified in 2005 as a Spanish dual-language teacher and later served as a principal at Rodg Elementary; the board welcomed Keron for his more than 19 years of construction and supervisory experience.
Also in closed session the board considered several student-discipline cases identified in the record as 2025‑24, 2025‑25 and 2025‑27. Trustees moved and voted on expulsions and suspended expulsions; the presiding officer announced that the motions passed, with one item recorded as having one opposed vote. The board did not state student names in open session.
In other business the board approved a contract with Paradigm Healthcare Services LLC to provide Local Education Agency (LEA) billing, audit support and related services for the 2024–2027 school year. The contract was presented as “not to exceed $250,000.” Staff described the program as a monthly reimbursement workflow: district providers enter billable services into Paradigm’s system, Paradigm pulls and submits the data to the state, and the district receives periodic checks when reimbursements are processed. Staff said district reimbursements from the program have risen from about $200,000 a year to a little over $400,000 annually in recent years.
The board also approved the consent agenda items A–D and directed staff to bring proposed board-policy revisions back for a second reading.
The board announced its next regular meeting for March 20, 2025, with closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m. and the regular meeting at 7:00 p.m.
