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Annual Organizational Meeting + Regular Board Meeting (Open Session)

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Summary

The December 11, 2025 meeting was both a regular meeting and the annual organizational meeting. Sheri Morgan was elected Board President on a 3-2 vote (Morgan, Kelly, Hills yes; Perry, Malczewski no) after outgoing President Perry declined to continue. Dee Perry was elected Board Clerk on a 3-2 vote (Hills, Morgan, Perry yes; Kelly, Malczewski no). Glass was appointed Board Secretary per bylaw. The board adopted multiple second-reading policy revisions (BP 0410, 0440, 0450, 1113, 1312.3, 3515, 3515.4, 4030, 4033, 4119.11/4219.11/4319.11), passed the 2025-26 First Interim Financial Report with positive certification (5-0), and submitted the 2024-25 unmodified district audit. Two motions on Bylaw 9322 (agenda setting) passed: (1) requiring contracts of $50,000 or more to be pulled from the consent calendar as separate action items (5-0); (2) board president to have final approval of the agenda (3-2, Malczewski/Perry/students opposed). New ad hoc committees were established for Facilities Master Plan and Governance.

Key insights (13)

  • Board President election: 3-2 for Morgan (Morgan, Kelly, Hills yes; Perry, Malczewski no). Outgoing President Perry declined to continue: "I do not feel like I should continue on as the board president."
  • Board Clerk election: 3-2 for Perry (Hills, Morgan, Perry yes; Kelly, Malczewski no), defeating a sub-motion to nominate Malczewski.
  • 2025-26 First Interim approved 5-0 with positive certification; property taxes projected at $79.5M (up ~$623K), state revenue up $1.1M, local revenue up $394K, ending GF balance projected at $12.8M, reserve for economic uncertainties at $1.2M.
  • Bylaw 9322 (agenda setting) Step 1 vote: contracts of $50,000+ pulled from consent calendar as separate action items — passed unanimously. Second motion: board president to have final approval of the agenda — passed 3-2 with Malczewski, Perry, and student board members opposed.
  • Pool modernization: 20 bid packages opened publicly at 2 p.m. on Dec 11 in front of ~50 contractors/community members; flooring package received no bids; initial tally suggests project within architect's $25M budget; bid award recommendation at first January meeting.
  • Transportation Ad Hoc Committee update: ~52 routes, 960+ students daily; ~$2M GF contribution; Samsara cloud-based GPS/camera pilot (hardware install Dec 15, rollout Q1 2026, zero cost via pilot); each additional bus route ~$70K-$80K annually.
  • New ad hoc committees: Facilities Master Plan (Morgan, Hills, with Kelly as alternate; dissolves Dec 2026); Governance (Hills appointed; Malczewski declined to serve; dissolves June 2026).
  • CSEA President Zuziak addressed Morgan on the record about her election: "Sherri, you received three votes to endorse you... when we did the vote in no confidence and the recall, you were the number one vote getter for who wanted to be recalled."
  • Both CSEA and LaBUFA urged retention of Perry as President and election of Malczewski as Clerk.
  • Malczewski: "They are the most unpleasant closed sessions I have ever, I can't even imagine."
  • **Kelly's earlier on-record "find a job" reference**: "if I was he, I'd be looking for a job uh with the way that he has been treated in his first hundred days here by certain members of this board." This is approximately three months earlier than his March 26 statement.
  • Aliso school property reminder: District retains a 2041 $1 repurchase option; the dollar bill remains on file in the business office.
  • Closed-session liability claim payment of $3,766 reported out.

Linked timeline events (12)

Source record

This meeting is catalogued as source lbusd-video-2025-12-11 . The summary and insights on this page are produced from a local transcript of the recording linked above; they are not a verbatim transcript and may abbreviate or paraphrase. Direct quotes from this meeting that need to be cited verbatim should reference the recording timestamp.