Closed Session (Dec 11, 2025)

Summary

10-minute opening dominated by extended substantive debate over Morgan's motion to move public comment on non-agenda items to the beginning of the meeting. Notable for the explicit Glass intervention on parliamentary process — *"we really should get in the practice of recognizing a board member, having that board member speak. Because you don't have to sort of debate each other to um an answer. You should state your position and then vote to resolve the question."* Hills frames the motion as procedural housekeeping; Malczewski and Kelly characterize it as silencing the public. Closed-session items: **liability claim McBride 661256 (Gov't Code 54957)** and **public employee performance — superintendent (Gov't Code 54957)**.

Key insights (7)

• **First on-record formal public-comment placement vote.** Outcome implied to fail (Morgan/Hills aye, Malczewski/Kelly no, Perry's vote not crisply captured but the outcome reads as 2-3 against the move based on subsequent discussion). The vote-counting line "Okay, that's gonna be two bad" suggests it failed.
• **Glass coaches the board on Roberts Rules in real time** — a marked change from his early-tenure deference; an early signal of mounting tension.
• **First on-record reference to a superintendent performance review.** Closed-session item: "public employee performance — superintendent" under Gov't Code 54957. This is **structurally** the contract-mandated 100-day review per Jason Glass's contract (Glass started July 2025; Dec 11 ≈ 5 months in, consistent with a "December" 100-day review per 2026-02-26-special-governance-meeting context referencing the same December check-in).
• **Hills's defense of the motion:** *"the meetings tend to become very long… if we can move through an agenda quickly… people that um you know have want to speak to non-agenda items, give them that opportunity… The idea that if we change something, why are we changing it? Do we have some kind of motive to try to silence people or something? I really don't think that that's what's going on here at all."*
• **Malczewski's pushback:** *"this board for months going in beginning in January about not liking the public comments, no more anonymous comments. Unfortunately, I'm sure you didn't intend it, but the community has heard that you don't want to hear their voice."*
• **First reference to an organized advocacy campaign** — Hills: *"there has been kind of an organized little campaign to have a lot of people write in, and I respect that."* Likely refers to FUEL / FUEL — Families Unified for Education in Laguna organizing.
• Morgan pulls **item 8 (minutes from prior meeting)** off the agenda: *"I don't have a copy of them in my binder, and I was not on my computer very much today because I like to do this by hand, so I haven't even seen them yet."*