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Parents and teachers criticize timing, urge board to prioritize contract settlement over emergency powers
Summary
Public commenters told the Natomas Unified board the special meeting timing felt intentional, urged trustees to settle a contract using fact-finding, and warned the resolution could undermine educators rather than help them.
Several public commenters told the board the emergency-resolution was the wrong way to address bargaining disputes and criticized the board for holding a special meeting at 7:30 a.m., when many parents and teachers could not attend. Emma Urbach said the resolution "does the opposite" of valuing educators and called for trustees to use a fact-finding report as the basis for negotiations rather than emergency measures.
"It's telling that this wasn't brought up at the regular board meeting that happened just last night. Instead, we're here at 07:30 in the morning while most parents and teachers of this district are busy at school drop off," Emma Urbach said, urging the board to "settle a contract so we can avoid this emergency entirely." Public commenters framed the meeting's timing and a perceived lack of transparency as reasons to prefer negotiation over unilateral emergency powers.
