Closed Session (Feb 26, 2026)

Summary

The longest closed-session opening in the 2025-26 playlist (27 minutes) — a **special governance meeting** that became substantively about a closed-session agenda item: **3D, an unplanned superintendent performance review** ("Dr. Glass is now facing his second unplanned performance review in just 10 weeks"). Public comment dominated by speakers defending Glass and protesting the second review. Procedural sequence: 1. Morgan combines items 6A-F (BP 1445 + immigration-rights guide) into one block to "facilitate compliance by March 1st" — passes 5-0. 2. Morgan then moves to bring public comment on item 7 (governance presentation) to the front; a roll-call vote splits Hills (yes) / Malczewski (no) / Perry (yes) / Morgan (yes) — passes (Kelly's vote not crisply captured). 3. Kelly's substitute motion to move non-agenda public comment to item 3 (front of meeting): **fails 3-2** (Kelly yes, Malczewski yes, Hills no, Perry no, Morgan no). 4. **Kelly's "seven years that I have had to survive you" outburst** — Morgan calls order: *"Hostile, verbally hostile. And if you would like to have the re if you would like to be treated in the same manner, I'd be glad to talk about right now."* 5. Agenda adopted as presented (with combined items + early item-7 public comment): roll-call **Kelly no, Malczewski no, Hills yes, Perry yes, Morgan yes** — passes 3-2. 6. **Seven public-comment cards** taken on closed-session items. All defend Glass.

Key insights (5)

• **The Feb 26 meeting is the structural turning point in the 2025-26 governance arc.** This is the meeting where the board majority's pattern of unscheduled superintendent reviews becomes publicly named. Per Rolfing: this falls outside Glass's contract.
• **Kelly's "seven years that I have had to survive you" line** is the most overtly hostile on-record exchange in the closed-session corpus. Morgan responds in kind. This is the same dynamic that surfaces less directly in 2026-01-22 - LBUSD Closed Session ("a little exchange as we do on the dais regularly").
• **Public comment speakers (in order):** - **Shabnam Henry** — pro-Glass, frames closed-session "tone" as "combative and at times dysfunctional" - **Lauren Unterberger** — pro-Glass; same speaker as 2026-05-12-lbusd-closed-session-public-comment ("you guys conduct yourselves… so inappropriate") - **Kimberly Smith** — pro-Glass, references Glass's wife Sarah - **Emily Rolfing (FUEL board)** — surfaces the contract-evaluation-cadence question; *"Just because the board has the authority to do something does not mean it should."* Existing entity: Emily Rolfing - **Vivian Tran** — pro-Glass, "yet another performance review for seven weeks' worth of work" - **Linnea Rodriguez** — 15-year district employee + parent, pro-Glass: *"Multiple members of the adult school board have treated you with disrespect and callous disregard… The high school members of the school board conduct themselves in a manner that is far superior to yours."* - **Leslie Elliott** — teacher, addressed Morgan/Hills/Perry directly: *"Disgruntled people who only know how to deal with problems, bitch, complain, that's you. Once you got a leadership role, you don't know how to lead."* Then pivoted to thanking Glass and recalling teaching Morgan's children. - **Ivy Leighton** — mentioned but comment apparently not delivered (or trailing off in transcript)
• **Counsel ("Noel Brady"?) cited Brown Act** for handling agenda public comment placement.
• This is the meeting referenced in ../../wiki/synthesis/2026-05-13-why-glass-departed-board-meeting-signals as part of the **six-closed-session pattern** culminating in the May 12 vote.